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I heard the same thing about all the negative views on calorie counting and had a similar reaction to you. I agree that it is an awareness tool and needs to be used alongside other tools to promote success. Keeping track of what you eat always helps.
I knew there was a reason counting calories made no common sense to me! Ha! Now I know. 🙂
looking forward to reading your stuff, I was referred here from myfitnesspal
Thanks, James for keeping the honest discussion going. There’s definitely a trend from people who are vehemently anti calorie counting to infer false implication that people who do advocate calorie counting and budgeting also somehow necessarily believe that what you eat doesn’t matter at all. I have no idea where this comes from. Even the most flexible iifym advocates never claim, at least to my knowledge, that what you eat doesn’t matter at all. Nor have I ever seen a pro calorie counter claim that you can reap just as decent results eating Halloween candy as you can eating, say,… Read more »
Thanks for the comment Pete!
Reading through your heavily biased “blog posts” for the past month show myself and others exactly what we need to know. Stuck in the same guidelines as what was used 10 yrs ago and essentially not valid is showing your scientific reasoning abilities.
I’m saddened to see your inability to actually pull in the biological thermodynamics into consideration. Do you even know how the second law applies within the body and the abundant hormonal processes occur within the body?
Life is unfortunately not so simple, and neither is the body.
Keep learning.
Cheers!
“WOW”, well that’s certainly my reaction to reading your posts to James so far…(as well as Wtf and a few other acronyms).
“Stuck in the same guidelines that were used 10 years ago..” – LOL oh the irony…
Reading through your heavily biased “blog posts” for the past month show myself and others exactly what we need to know Yes, I am heavily biased towards the weight of the scientific evidence. Glad you learned exactly what you and others need to know. Stuck in the same guidelines as what was used 10 yrs ago Exactly what guidelines would those be? If you’ve been reading my blog posts, I don’t recall discussing guidelines of any sort. essentially not valid is showing your scientific reasoning abilities. Actually I think you are revealing your reading abilities as nowhere have I discussed… Read more »
Haynie, actually. Geneticist researchers know what’s up as well. Who the hell mentioned Feinman? I don’t really agree with Feinman’s approach, he was not clear enough.
I am more interested in how you view the body as a system, as opposed to the blogs you post for me to read. Not sure you understand it, thus why leaving the work for another to do.
Your views behoof me. I am far from anti calorie approach, it’s simply that your layout needs refining.
Chill lad.
I take that as a no, you don’t have an understanding(possibly even an awareness) of biological thermodynamics in relationship to the 2nd laws superiority over the 1st.
Actually, I’ll take your response as you not knowing what you’re talking about. You have not provided any information or evidence refuting anything I’ve said in this blog post. If you have something refuting what I have said in this blog post, please provide it. Otherwise I can safely write you off as a troll, and perhaps you should follow the advice in your listed email address.
Blog posts don’t count as research, merely opinions buddy. Did you look into both sides and try to prove your side wrong? This is what real scientists do, not bloggers.
Apparently you didn’t bother to read the two studies that I linked to. And having published numerous research studies in scientific journals myself, I’m not sure you’re in any place to tell me what real scientists do or what counts as research.
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What a burn