Al Ciampa
Level 7 Valued Member
I have never, nor do I ever plan to count calories, but I just watched this:
Munchies has a great series called Fuel that is really interesting.
This annoyed me enough to post about it. (This is a warning to readers, not an attack on Geoff.)
You cannot take the context of an elite young female who has been an athlete most of her young life; who obviously has never had metabolism issues; likely under ate in the past and reproduce her experience with any kind of success. It would be akin to reading the current training program of an elite lifter, full of performance enhancers and years of training experience and assuming that it is a viable option for everyone. Physiologically, these are the exact same statements.
If your metabolism and experience are similar to hers, you might see the same results.
Yes, counting calories works in theory. It works because it is a mathematical way to reduce the amount of energy you take in (and we just love placing numbers on s***) and reducing energy works to reduce body fat, in theory, as sure as starvation works in practice. Trouble is, in free-living society, if your physiology is such that (e.g.) any excess glucose will cause fat accumulation and hunger, you will not willfully "starve yourself to weight loss while eating".
Turkey corn dogs and TV dinners for breakfast? There was a rather successful twinkie diet conducted by a college professor some years back; and I have bridges for sale all across the eastern seaboard.