I know approximately how many calories are in my food. Like I said I use MyFitnessPal to track it.
I know approximately how many calories I burn. In addition to using an Apple Watch I track my workouts.
And honestly this is good enough. If I target a 500 calorie per day deficit, I miraculously lose 1 pound per week. Which makes sense because simple arithmetic says that there are 3,500 calories per pound and 7 days times 500 equals 3,500.
It really is that simple. What on earth do you have a metabolic cart for? You wear that on your face all day every day tracking how much carbon dioxide you breathe out? And you really believe you’re burning 3,300 calories just standing? I could maybe believe that if you are in the morbidly obese BMI range.
Calorie counting is extremely helpful. Ask anyone who did it for the first time and suddenly realized they were eating 9 servings of potato chips at a time without even thinking about it.
I'm a nerd with more money than sense, what can I say! I trust the output of the device I have, and I do truly believe I am burning 3300kcal/day just standing at my desk, walking to the bathroom, etc. I eat 3500kcal/day pretty regularly, and maintain weight.
If you can target enough of a deficit and not be hungry, good for you. It's hard for most people. The input data is wrong, the output data is wrong/unknown, and one can only be hungry for so long.
I know approximately how many calories I burn. In addition to using an Apple Watch I track my workouts.
And honestly this is good enough. If I target a 500 calorie per day deficit, I miraculously lose 1 pound per week. Which makes sense because simple arithmetic says that there are 3,500 calories per pound and 7 days times 500 equals 3,500.
It really is that simple. What on earth do you have a metabolic cart for? You wear that on your face all day every day tracking how much carbon dioxide you breathe out? And you really believe you’re burning 3,300 calories just standing? I could maybe believe that if you are in the morbidly obese BMI range.
Calorie counting is extremely helpful. Ask anyone who did it for the first time and suddenly realized they were eating 9 servings of potato chips at a time without even thinking about it.