Counting Calories Is Not the Key to Weight Loss, New Study Finds

Re:Counting Calories Is Not the Key to Weight Loss, New Stud... by cstejerean on Tuesday February 20, 2018 @02:18PM (#16423181)

It doesn't even matter howe calorie dense the food is as long as you severely limit carbs. A slice of pizza is about 107g and has about 285 calories. A stick of butter is about 133g and has 810 calories. See if you can eat as many sticks of butter as you can slices of pizza.

High fat / low carb foods are very hard to eat in large quantities, unless you pair them with sources of carbs (put the butter on bread, add BBQ sauce to fatty meat, etc). It's not just the caloric density, it's how much of it you can eat before you feel full.

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Re:Counting Calories Is Not the Key to Weight Loss, New Stud... by exelius on Tuesday February 20, 2018 @06:06PM (#16425136)

Right; but dieting is almost entirely psychological — so any ways to trick your brain into eating less have to be valid diet tips, no?

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Re:Counting Calories Is Not the Key to Weight Loss, New Stud... by headsoup on Tuesday February 20, 2018 @08:11PM (#16425947)

Only if weight loss by Kg is your only metric of success.

And dieting is by definition a temporary thing to fix an issue, rather than actually changing eating patterns and content permanently.

People just generally don't want to do the hard slog (i.e. in permanently avoiding sugar and carbs), they want the short term 'fix,' hence 'dieting.'

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