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Re:People Took Some Potassium and Lost Some Weight by eloff on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @08:53PM (#34075724)
That’s also how I manage my weight. After a while you don’t necessarily need to count everything, you get pretty good at just estimating. I know if I have some drinks, I tend to go over budget and I compensate by trying to have a subsequent day under budget, or do some more exercise.

I like it because I don’t feel deprived. If I want something, I just fit it into the calorie budget. You pretty quickly learn that potato chips, soda, beer, and candy consume budget quickly and don’t fill you.

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Re:People Took Some Potassium and Lost Some Weight by teeray on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @11:49PM (#34076799)
That’s what drives me crazy about calorie counter apps. They demand perfection which is just totally unreasonable in the messy world. I can’t tell you exactly how many cups of fries are on my plate, or what that sauce is made out of. So you have to guess, but they treat that guess as exact. It would be nice to have a fuzzier counter which keeps track of how sure you are and produces error bars.
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