Calorie counting is back in ...
Submitted by GettingFit4Life on Wed, 10/29/2008 - 08:40.
At least, according to The New York Times, it is ...
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/29/dining/29calories.html?8dpc
Do any of you count calories? If so, what has your experience been.
For me personally, counting calories has been the only consistent way I've lost weight and kept it off.
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Yes And Amazing
Yes I count calories and limit my caloric intake ------------ I journal as well every calorie that goes in ----------- I also document every mile I walk when I walk............... And the results are amazing I am on the 151 week of my new life and I have lost 67 or so lbs as well as my blood pressure meds! It is a very effect way to lose weight!
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I used the South Beach Diet
I used the South Beach Diet and morphed Phase III into the Zone Diet, but I also counted calories throughout.
At the end of the day, you cannot escape the first law of thermodynamics...it always ultimately comes down to a discrepancy in the number of calories burned versus calories consumed.
On counting calories
Last time I went to New York City, I noticed the posting of calories affected what I ordered from the restaurants, doing my best to pick something I liked that was lower in calories (and typically much healthier).
I wish restaurants, on their own, would adopt this change. It could help them sell more healthier food, and we would all be healthier as a result.