Counting Calories May Not Work ...

Why counting calories often doesn’t work ⬇️

Calorie counting often falls short in achieving sustainable health and fitness goals due to several key reasons. Firstly, it undervalues the importance of considering food macros (macronutrients), such as carbohydrates, fats, and proteins. Not all calories are created equal; different macros have varying effects on metabolism and satiety. A diet rich in quality macros can promote better energy levels and weight management. Secondly, people frequently underestimate portion sizes, leading to inaccurate calorie counts. Human error in estimating portion sizes can be significant, causing calorie calculations to be imprecise. Lastly, relying solely on fitness watches and wearable devices for calorie expenditure can be misleading. These devices often provide estimates that may not align with individual metabolic rates and activity levels, leading to inaccuracies in calorie balance. Instead, a more holistic approach, focusing on balanced nutrition, portion awareness, and listening to one’s body, tends to yield more successful and sustainable results in health and fitness endeavors.

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[Zachary_Miller]

Calorie counting doesn’t work and it’s dangerous for your mental health. I agree docs! I lost more weight by being mindful with my portions.

[alancohen]

I lost over 90LBS counting calories.

I usually weigh my food but it's the only "weight loss" method that worked for me.

[JO-pzuf]

Counting calories does work, you just have to be honest with yourself and spend time doing it properly.

[Cjmck]

Still waiting to hear the explanation as to why it doesn't work. You've explained that it can be difficult to estimate calorie intake and burn, not that it doesn't work.

[Ali-xtex]

If you weigh the food and everything that goes into a dish you will lose weight it works.

[dawnt]

Counting calories does work. Weigh and measure everything. Yes, you might be off because companies lie but you have to start somewhere. Ignore exercise calories unless you are doing extreme workouts. Stop telling people not to count calories. Eating in a calorie deficit is how you lose weight.

[himsanctified]

cut carbs (not calories), and weight drops as does inflammation and glucose

[andressoto]

It does work if you overestimate instead of underestimate. For example, packaging says 500 calories per serving. I'd eat one serving and count that as 600 or 700. If I blindly drink a can of soda or bag of chips I'd count that as 300 calories (coke can is about 150 and so are small bag of cheetos)cheetos. I tend to x2 for junk food. Normally though I just eat tuna cans. Eating just 800 calories of tuna daily for a month Normally does the trick and is east to keep track of.

[AlexEMF]

Counting calories does work if it's done right. I have a goal of gaining muscle mass and weighing a total of around 150 pounds. I've always weighed around 128 pounds, and I only was able to gain weight when I started to count calories and be consistent. I went from 128 to 138 in about 5 months thanks to counting calories and being consistent.

[coraljames]

I’m the exception. I lost 100 pounds counting calories against my fit bit intake.

[RichRich]

I have a small kitchen scale to measure portions. It's good to divide a container into equal portions so overeating doesn't happen. Also my doc gave me a cheap but accurate body scale. Both were key in my weight loss and keeping it off.

[cookiemomma]

Are you doing a long video on this topic? Interesting when you compare the different apps and what they say the calorie content is of a food compared to the label.( Fitness pal versus, Noom, versus chronometer). With some phone step counters and fitness trackers you can make the step count go up by shaking the device also.

[sabreenausman]

Doc... Help.. How to lose weight then?

[Ve-suvius]

There's often more salt in the products than manufacturers / ingredients say.
Not good for the heart, arteries and kidneys.

[davidmcgrath]

It worked perfectly for me. I do weigh my food. I don’t add back and exercise. I don’t worry about that. I’m losing about to pounds per week and I’m almost at my target weight. All I’m doing is counting calories and it’s been easy.

[dawnelder]

I starved myself fat and sick on 1200 low fat, high fibre calories a day for decades. Weighed and measured everything. Had an active job and went to the gym daily. Barely fit a size Canadian 18.
Then my husband had 3 strokes and we found out he was diabetic. 180 pounds. I put him on the Adventist influence cult diet they gave me at the hospital. Food pyramid BS. Every 3 weeks he had bloodwork. Always worse, as was he. After 8 months he was up to 210 pounds.
I read Good Calories, Bad Calories. Watched The Oiling of America. Changed both of our diets to the old 1950s British diet in the prologue. Diet advice that is based on human health instead of the financial health of the Adventist cult food industry.
His next bloodwork improved and kept getting better. Several months later a stranger understood him. His next bloodwork improved and kept getting better. Several months later a stranger understood him. His weight returned to 180.
I dropped from a size 18 to a 6/8. No starvation, or hunger shakes involved. Healed so many health issues. Degenerative bone disease, lowered bloodpressure, triglycerides from too high to surprisingly low for someone my age. Cholesterol finally up in the normal zone, which is still too low.
Look up Korean Cholesterol Mortality Study. Published in 2019. No money ftom big pharma or the Adventist food industry.
Took 10 years but my morning body temperature went from 94 to 98.6. Eyebrows came back and hair thickened.
That was 14 years ago and we are both doing great.
The nutritionalist who did the research for the food pyramid refused to have her name on it after the senator in charge let his Adventist buddies change it to the monstrosity that came out. She warned them if they put it out and people followed it that there would be a massive increase in obesity, diabetics, heart attacks, strokes, depression, dementia, autoimmune disease, cancer, etc.
She was right. But instead of admitting their mistake they did the vegan gaslighting thing of blaming the victims of their bad advice and pointing out the few that could stay slim, if not healthy on their death diet.
Add Poly Ovarian Syndrom, PMS, autism, ADHD, low testosterone, messed up thyroid and likely much more to the list.
Eighty percent of obese and fat people have metabolic syndrome. Sixty percent of normal and thin people also have metabolic syndrome. Big red flags. Most people can not lose weight and keep it off on the same diet advice that farmers use to fatten livestock cheaply.

[ChrisCapoccia]

Definitely counting calories with weighing portions can work, but it's a lot of work, but some people are really very quickly overwhelmed by math and stressed out. there are simpler systems that can help people be successful like weight watcher points. also, if you're cutting the gap between energy in/out close enough that various measurement errors eat up the difference, maybe leave a bigger gap?

[ssmakisaki]

I just saw your vape video, what about herbal cigarettes? And what long term side affects do you think someone like Cillian Murphy will have since he had to smoke on average 3, 000 of them per each 2 seasons of Peaky Blinders?

[jep]

Has any research been done on whether the error rate relating to calorie reporting on packaging has any bias?

[stefanosxenoudakis]

Thats why you only count what you eat and you dont put what you burn. And it works if you weighing your food ofc. And dont lie to your self and make sure to do your daily cardio.