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To: Pogeu Mahone who wrote (15041)4/11/2011 10:14:48 AM
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“If you put a person in a metabolic chamber, where you know exactly what they eat and what they burn, the calories in, calories out idea is always reconfirmed.’’

If the result of that measurement is that you can eat 1723 calories a day, you can proceed by counting your calories and eating exactly that each day. Or you can feed your body the nutrients that satisfy it and let it tell you to stop eating when it hits the magic number.

The difference is just a matter of style. You can monitor like an accountant or you can let your system monitor automatically and just pay attention to its signals. For control freaks and those who have broken systems or are signal deaf, we have the former. But if your automatic system has always worked or can be repaired to function again without your micromanagement, why not let it do the work for you? Then, if out of curiosity you want to "reconfirm," you can record your meals for a test period and do the metabolic-chamber thing and match the two. But your scale (or your skinny jeans) is a whole lot easier way to know that they are in sync. No need to incur the trouble and expense of calorie counting and turns in a metabolic chamber.

I think that the misunderstanding provoking the backlash is the inability to differentiate between the need to count calories and whether calories count. They are not the same.
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