since the 1970's and to
this very day the conservative message has been that you need to eat less and
move more, or simply that you must expend more calories than you consume.
There are five problems with this advice :
1. All
the blame and responsibility is laid squarely at your feet. So it's all your
fault that you are overweight, this allows government and medical authorities
to be proud of their sad efforts. Sticking to this same tired old line for over
40 years is just laziness and ineptitude.
2. Unless
you have a laboratory at your disposal it is very difficult to count calories
accurately within about 300 per day. Plus counting calories will not only do
your head in but it will make you a social bore. Not only that you will stop
enjoying food and meal times may become stressful.
3. It
also assumes that all calories are equal. But 100 calories from a cola drink
are not the same as a 100 from some almonds or olive oil or vegetables. Trying
to apply Newton's law of thermos dynamics to a human body just doesn't work. A
scientist would argue that a calorie is just a collection of atoms, and we need
to lose more atoms than we eat.
4. It
also assumes that we can gauge our metabolism and know exactly how many
calories we are burning throughout the day. You could wear a device that counts
calories but again there is room for error.
5. Life
is about so many things, and we certainly don't want to focus strongly on
calories and weighing and measuring food. You can eat, and you can lose weight
without counting calories, and it is so easy.
With the exception of
vegetables all you need to do is dump all the foods which cause a blood sugar
spike and drive up inflammation leading to fat accumulation. These foods are
all the carbohydrates fewer vegetables, plus all the processed foods which hide
sugars and inflammation causing industrial vegetable fats.
This comes as a shock
to many people but if you do it right you just make the change once and then
it's easy to live with as opposed to doing the low-calorie groundhog day
adventure over and over, leaving you more disappointed with each subsequent
failed attempt.
Don't give just let the
sugar go, it is not your friend, it is your sworn enemy.
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