Originally Posted by
GoWolfpack
This certainly does not prove that weight loss is 100% dependent on calorie-counting. It shows that closely monitoring what you eat every day helps you stop over-eating and lose weight.
Nobody claimed otherwise. Weight loss is 100 % dependent on eating fewer calories than you burn. You don't have to count them to do that.
Originally Posted by
ptempel
Yeah, I don't see what the big deal is.
Sadly, there are a lot of myths about how weight works in people. There are a lot of folks who want to lose weight and there's a lot of confusion about how to do it. People waste (get it?) a lot of money on woo. People follow a lot of dumb and occasionally dangerous diets. People think weight loss requires things like:
- Don't eat sugars, both natural (no apples or raspberries) or artificial, but eat all the butter you want
- You have to avoid all processed foods to lose weight
- You can't eat anything after 7 pm
- Etc
I agree this is nothing earth shattering. I'm simply pointing out that the earth isn't flat.