"The big fat calorie counting con"
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BarryK15
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I guess not everyone is on board with MFP. I don't know, it worked pretty well for me.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/active/mens-health/11249611/The-big-fat-calorie-counting-con.html?fb
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/active/mens-health/11249611/The-big-fat-calorie-counting-con.html?fb
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"For Dr Lucan and his fellow researcher James DiNicolantonio, rather than simply counting calories to help dieting, we should be looking at the type of food we are eating."
Real ground breaking stuff there! /sarcasm0 -
Interesting article. But not as interesting as the sh**storm that's about to descend upon this thread!0
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"For Dr Lucan and his fellow researcher James DiNicolantonio, rather than simply counting calories to help dieting, we should be looking at the type of food we are eating."
Real ground breaking stuff there! /sarcasm
If you overeat ANY food you'll gain bodyfat. I am still waiting for the 10,000-calories-a-day -approved-food list to not gain weight diet. I guess I'll keep waiting0 -
Well this should be interesting.0
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It is much easier to get people to watch how much they eat if all they have to track is calories. The big problem is that the way we calculate the number of calories in food is flawed. Our stomachs aren't a furnace that burns food to produce energy, and yet, that's how we calculate calories. It would be better if we calculated calories based on the energy the body can get from the food. Not that it is really that far off.0
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So macros are important?? Who knew!! Mind = blown!!
They're basically saying that macros are more important than calories. I can live with that, but if you overeat on macros, you're still overeating. Not sure how you would track macros without tracking calories as well.0 -
OP, I don't think you meant to do what you just did, since you said counting calories worked for you.
That said, in.0 -
Well, I got morbidly obese by overeating medium-chain triglycerides in particular, and dropped 100 pounds by calorie counting and eating potatoes, which doesn't work apparently. Magic?0
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There isn’t any new revelation in the article. More importantly, I wish the author takes his head out of his butt and realize just because people promote calorie counting they are not dismissing the importance of macros. If this was the case then MFP would only have a total calorie column and not bother to suggest a breakdown of calories into macro and micro nutrients. Furthermore, counting calories still needs to be done until a person is better able to grasp portion control.0
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I think most people on here subscribe to both calorie counting and watching macros (the contents of the calorie). The concern in the article seems to be that people won't eat healthy fats because the calorie count is high, but that healthy fats shouldn't been excluded from our diets because they are good for us. Because I know this, I do spend calories on healthy sources of fats, but I still stay within my calorie count, because I stronger suspect that if I ate too many of any macro - no matter how healthy, I wouldn't not be currently losing weight.0
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I measure my healthy fats with my tablespoon, and treat them more like "medicine". This includes peanut butter and nuts. I do notice the medicine goes "down" nicely and keeps everything running smoothly.0
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I think that there may have been too much of an emphasis on calorie counting at the expense of nutrition and macro analysis but calories are always going to be important. Focusing on a specific macro will not help much if you still over eat. However, if you are tending to always over eat because there wasn't enough emphasis on food choices that made you feel full and satisfied, then concentrating on the right balance of macros for you will help. It is interesting that most people on MFP do look at macros, calorie counting and exercise but articles like to pinpoint one factor as being the "truth" and debunking other factors. Of course it isn't very "sexy" to write "exercise, eat a wide variety of food types and eat in moderation". Luckily most of us know this and act accordingly.0
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skinnyD2308 wrote: »I think most people on here subscribe to both calorie counting and watching macros (the contents of the calorie). The concern in the article seems to be that people won't eat healthy fats because the calorie count is high, but that healthy fats shouldn't been excluded from our diets because they are good for us. Because I know this, I do spend calories on healthy sources of fats, but I still stay within my calorie count, because I stronger suspect that if I ate too many of any macro - no matter how healthy, I wouldn't not be currently losing weight.
I'm currently eating a vegan diet, barely making it to 30 grams of protein a day, almost always over on crabs and fat and I'm still losing consistently. Really.. macros are for general health/satiety/muscle mass. They have little to do with weight loss calorie for calorie.0 -
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the paper is set to shake the foundations of the diet industry.
Read the article, hope they follow up and see. If its proven then they could simply rejig calories for certain foods.0 -
It's gonna be a long week here....0
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