Calorie counting is a Sham

Weight Gain: How Food Actually Puts on Pounds

If if were all about cutting calories, people would have done it by now. But it's not so simple to cut calories, is it?

If metabolism is the primary driver of energy expenditure, shouldn't scientists be looking more into what effects your diet has on metabolism rather than simply telling people over and over again to "eat less?" Your body tells you how much it wants you to eat, and you have to give your body the right fuel so that it doesn't think that it needs more all the time. If you shovel nothing but crap into your mouth, but you just eat less of it, your body is going to want more food and your metabolism will slow down when it doesn't get it. You won't lose weight, you'll just feel miserable.

People need to eat the right foods, eat as much as their body needs, and then use the energy that they have to do the things that they want to do and practice doing the things they want to be able to do. Don't exercise just for the sake of exercising.