"The Calorie Myth" - Have Any of You Read This?

I do not eat "clean" and I am the healthiest I have been in my entire life. People espouse eating what you want, provided it's at a calorie deficit, because a calorie deficit is the only thing required for weight loss. However, many of those same people also espouse meeting your macros and exercising, because these things are good for your health. Unless your diet is truly atrocious, or you have a medical condition that affects hormone regulation, the human body generally does a pretty good job at keeping everything where it should be.

If I ate intuitively, I'd be over 250lbs... oh, wait.

I have a friend who does this, and yes she is healthy, but she is also not loosing any weight, cuz her meal sizes are super big, and she claims that eating clean will take care of it.
I still like the idea of eating clean, and do it as much as I can/feel like, I'm just combining it with counting calories, cuz just because it's healthy it doesn't mean you can't gain from it.

If I ate intuitively, I'd be over 250lbs... oh, wait.

Lol

(i.e. many who espouse that it doesn't matter what you eat, as long as you count your calories and eat at a deficit and point to Twinkie diet as evidence).

This is a misunderstanding of the mainstream "Calorie Counting" position. While I would readily agree one can lose weight on an all Twinkie Diet, it would be impossible to obtain all your macro- and micro-nutrients eating twinkies. Those goals for Protein, Carbohydrates, Fat, Saturated Fatr, Fiber, Vitamin A, Vitamin C, Calcium, Potassium, Low Sodium, etc. may allow for the indulgence of a twinkie or two, but generally require you less processed and more nutrient-dense foods, like fruits and vegetables.

he basically argues that wholesome health means we should move away from calorie counting

A common problem in defining a set of "clean foods" that one can eat without worrying about tracking, is that to hit all the nutrients we need, they often include one or more calorie-dense items. For the paleo diet, a problem food is nuts. For the cabbage soup diet, there are special foods to be tracked on each day and a warning not to do it too long. Also, by excluding other whole foods, it becomes clear that "clean" is just a euphemism for "restricted diet", a restricted diet to avoid calorie-dense whole foods.

There are middle-paths worth considering. At least one well-established nutritionist recommends using a MyPlate approach of tracking servings, because tracking calories is time-consuming.

Well, calorie counting, simply, has effective results.
Eating "intuitively", does not. Except for very few people that has a beautiful relationship with food and with their body needs (a friend of mine is like this, but she is the only one I know!)
While it is important to eat all the macro and micro nutrients our body needs, it doesn't lead to weight loss as it is. I always ate well, vegs, fruit, meat, fish, carbs... but I ate too much, and I gained weight. I reduced the portions, and I'm losing.

My brothers tried the approach you are talking about... well... he was so pleased at the thought that he could eat as much as he felt while eating "clean" that he gained a good amount of weight...

I think it's important to distinguish a) weight loss and b) eating what is good for our bodies
You can do both, or just one of the two. Both is better.

Intuitive eating works for some people. I suspect it works best for those who have a good sense of portion size and do not tend to overeat calorie-dense foods.