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<blockquote data-quote="TorqPenderloin" data-source="post: 1212993" data-attributes="member: 211504"><p>Plenty of people (including myself) have had success with counting calories so I wouldn't discount that approach. However, it has it's fair share of drawbacks just as any other approach can have.</p><p></p><p>Ultimately, if you're counting calories and not losing weight you're either forgetting some throughout the day or it's time to reduce your total intake further. For someone like me, a very active 28 year old male weighing around 200 pounds, that's easy. However, that can be particularly difficult for many women as they often find their total calorie intake required to lose weight needs to be very low (or the weight loss, if any, is very slow). To put that into perspective, if I eat <3000 calories a day, I start to lose weight. 3000 calories is a lot of food and it's easy to maintain that level without feeling hungry all the time. In contrast, you may find that you need to eat as little as 1200-1500 calories a day to lose weight. Not only is that not a lot of food, but even slight miscalculations could throw off your calorie counting. Ex: forgetting a handful of almonds throws your number of by ~15% (1oz=about 180 calories).</p><p></p><p>Bottom line, calorie counting is easy to adjust because it's a simple matter of reducing your total caloric intake until you begin to lose weight, but while it's easy to adjust it's not always easy follow which is why many prefer other approaches (some already mentioned) that address the issue of feeling hungry all the time.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Sent from my iPad using <a href="https://siteowners.tapatalk.com/byo/displayAndDownloadByoApp?rid=67" target="_blank">DCUK Forum</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TorqPenderloin, post: 1212993, member: 211504"] Plenty of people (including myself) have had success with counting calories so I wouldn't discount that approach. However, it has it's fair share of drawbacks just as any other approach can have. Ultimately, if you're counting calories and not losing weight you're either forgetting some throughout the day or it's time to reduce your total intake further. For someone like me, a very active 28 year old male weighing around 200 pounds, that's easy. However, that can be particularly difficult for many women as they often find their total calorie intake required to lose weight needs to be very low (or the weight loss, if any, is very slow). To put that into perspective, if I eat <3000 calories a day, I start to lose weight. 3000 calories is a lot of food and it's easy to maintain that level without feeling hungry all the time. In contrast, you may find that you need to eat as little as 1200-1500 calories a day to lose weight. Not only is that not a lot of food, but even slight miscalculations could throw off your calorie counting. Ex: forgetting a handful of almonds throws your number of by ~15% (1oz=about 180 calories). Bottom line, calorie counting is easy to adjust because it's a simple matter of reducing your total caloric intake until you begin to lose weight, but while it's easy to adjust it's not always easy follow which is why many prefer other approaches (some already mentioned) that address the issue of feeling hungry all the time. Sent from my iPad using [url=https://siteowners.tapatalk.com/byo/displayAndDownloadByoApp?rid=67]DCUK Forum[/url] [/QUOTE]
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