Calorie Counting Doesn't Work, Here's Why: Doctor Tim Spector

🗣️ "Stop obsessing about calories..."

Doctor Tim Spector OBE reveals why calorie counting does not work...

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📖 What if everything that you knew about health was wrong, if calories didn’t count and food labels lied? That is exactly what Tim Spector OBE says in his multiple books, innumerable articles and TV appearances.

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[Indigo]

So his main point isn’t really about calories. He’s saying stop eating processed food and start consuming fresh, quality products - which is fair.

[IR._]

Typical “make an outlandish claim and watch the clicks come in” tactics. I’ve lost 15 kg in 4.5 months by calorie counting. Before that, I didn’t even know anything about calories and I only lost half a kg in a similar amount of time. It doesn’t need to be accurate down to the letter. It’s just a great way to let yourself know what you’re putting in your body. Like the fact that some small snacks have the same number of calories as some entire meals that I was having. I don’t plan on counting calories forever, just a few months of doing it has opened my eyes as to what foods to avoid or have less of.

[juliasp]

What he is saying that some people react in a way to processed foods that they end up overeating calories… eating whole foods is helping you to stay in a calorie deficit by keeping your blood sugars in check.. also, these foods are naturally less calorie dense than junk.. that simple

[smaalandmika]

but what if you can be in a caloric deficit while eating whole foods and no processed-foods? would not that be the optimal scenario?

[davidmcgrath]

I studied myself and my results and calorie counting has been 100% successful. I lost 20 pounds in a year and it’s been easy to keep it off by continuing to count. Obviously I’m eating healthy and working out too, but I couldn’t do it without counting the calories.

[johnfray]

I think Tim is being willfully obtuse in the way that he’s approaching this topic for the sake of the general public. But there’s a huge community of people who already eat a whole foods diet, have specific body recomposition goals, and the difference in hitting those body fat % targets is, indeed, made by measured calorie adjustments. It’s not just the rare breed of bodybuilder doing this, either. I wish Tim would speak with more specificity and nuance on this, because I don’t quite believe that HE believes the narrowness of how he’s presenting his argument.

[johnnybravo]

I lost 20kgs counting calories. It’s quite obvious that using some form of quantifying how much food you eat will affect your weight. Whether or not it is 100% accurate is irrelevant.

[BagelofTime]

I counted calories during the summer of 2019, cut out sugar, processed foods, bread, etc... I lost 20lbs. We know it's not "all about the deficit". It's about the change. It works with the right knowledge

[alicewrench]

I stopped calorie counting after watching Tim Spectors podcast and started eating more naturally, ie cutting out allot of processed foods. I put on weight but actually my clothing fits better and I'm happier, I sleep better. Calorie deficits make me frustrated, tired and at some point I will give up, lower calorie options are full of junk

[Wakish]

When I was 16 I had been obese for multiple years. I learned in chemistry class that a calorie is just energy and I knew that energy and mass are inherently related and so I searched how many calories were in a pound of fat. I used tools online to find my BMR and for my height searched what underweight and overweight would be, and I chose the number exactly between the two as my target goal. I calculated how many calories I'd have to eat over the course of a school summer to lose 30lb and every day during that summer I ate that exact number of calories. Sure enough, when school started back up I weighed EXACTLY 30lb less - my math worked out perfectly correct despite me expecting it to be off by a few pounds

Counting calories 100% works. Years later I got into body building and would cycle between cutting and bulking and used the same lesson over and over dozens of times to manage my weight. It works

[yoshiglubschi]

I did Mini cut -1000 Calories per day and it absolutely works….

[peach_dumplings]

I believe the message was more that calorie counts of food and energy expenditure isn't an exact science = a myth of what we commonly know and see as per nutritional information...and that what was commonly believed "a calorie is a calorie" is incorrect.
I'd give this man more credibility than anyone in the comment sections tbh

[Mr-yevu]

Oh come on lol! Calorie counting isn’t a 100% accurate but it clearly works as most pro athlete and bodybuilders do it! Do it for a few months, learn roughly how many calories are in what food you eat then go from there.

[felgper]

The point about calories is that a metabolicaly healthy body manages It for us. It's all about hormones and energy partitioning. Fat is a survival mechanism that went overdrive, because of modern societal conveniences. As soon as we get healthy counting calories becomes pointless.

[HappyLilJimmy]

Source : trust me bro

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I myself have counted calories and no it’s not the sexiest thing in the world and it’s a weird lifestyle change but it does work, I counted calories for 3 months on My app, then estimated my calories a month post that and was able too maintain weight too a good extent, obviously it’s extremely difficult too have a 6 pack all year round but I only wanted it for the 3 months of summer because I had never had it before, it was something new for me,

Anyways the point is that it does work, it’s just not meant too be a strategy that you use for the rest of your life . If your normal eating habits aren’t good you’ll never be able too maintain it even for the month after

[carriefloss]

It’s his view only - significant scientific evidence suggests that a reduction in calories and regular exercise contributes to weight loss and long-term health benefits

[DJFAmenHeavy]

I lost 8 stone counting calories (all healthy food as-well) so it must do something positive 😂
You need to balance the right foods alongside counting the calories. Tim is saying eating the right food will make you crave food less, which is true, but if you are a greedy foodie (like me) you will still want to shovel everything in to your pie hole.

[JB_Lincs]

Of course being in a calorie deficit will help you lose fat. Yes, you may be hungry, but you're asking your body to use it's own stores for energy! Of course it's going to let you know about it.

Consistently and regularly eat nutrient dense food with a low energy density, whilst staying under a given caloric target. That's it.

[nickbyrd]

Interesting...I have been counting calories and maintaining a caloric deficit for 4 months and down 36 pounds, so it seems like it works pretty well.

Also, the overwhelming majority of science says that a calorie deficit is explicitly responsible for weight loss.

[JacquiMwangi]

So true! I don't diet and focus more on eating wholesome foods. Never needed to go on a weight-loss diet and have maintained a consistent weight range throughout my life. Thanks for sharing this!