Quote Originally Posted by channlluv View Post
Argh. It's just all so doggone complicated.
Yeah... this is why I don't count calories anymore nor do I work out incessantly. Both require vigilance which is not sustainable for a lifestyle change, which is really what most people are going for when they want to lose weight for the long-term.

And by work-out vigiliance, it wasn't the tiresome working out that was getting to me. It was constantly watching and monitoring what I ate and when I ate it, so that I wouldn't bonk out and/or overeat to compensate for a long workout. Then it was the injuries and recovering from injuries from working out...

And counting calories ... as much as Lose It was helpful in the beginning, mostly for portion control and understanding of current ways, it just got tedious in the long term. Which I suppose is a good thing -- that you can feel like you've graduated from it since you now have a better informed guesstimate of how what you're eating will impact your diet.

Not that I recommend this as a great piece of writing nor health advice, but the general concept of the book "French Women Don't Get Fat" is aim for long-term temperance and portion control. Bryan Kest, Power Yoga guy, said it in a more succinct way. He said you do yoga for fitness, for balance, for calmness. But not for weight loss: "If you want to lose weight, eat less."

Of course, making an informed decision of what to eat less of is useful... but generally I feel like all the math weighs us down.

To each their own, btw.