The calories myth

Counting calories has even less utility than counting sheep.  Counting sheep actually works to help relax you to sleep, while counting calories always disappoints you when the results never arrive, never ever as predicted.  A scientist should then conclude that something is wrong with the model.  A philosopher should note the insanity in trying to extract different results from doing the same thing over and over.  I hold both positions, counting calories has no basis in science, none, as I will explain below, and it only serves to drive you nuts when you gain the fat back worse than you had it before.

Here is the old model:
   Calories ingested - Calories expended = Net Calories gained or lossed
   1 Gram of Fat = 9 Calories
   Therefore
   For every 3500 Calories I eat more than I exercise I gain pound,
   and for every 3500 Calories I exercise more than I eat I will lose 1 pound of fat.
   Too Easy Right, Wrong.
   Not a single clinical trial has ever demonstrated this, not one.
   It's not your fault, you have been deceived so as not to disrupt profits, weight loss is big business.

Why this model is total crap:
1.  Your Body has nothing in common with a calorimeter.  A calorie (KCal) is the amount of energy required to heat a kilogram of water 1 degree celcius.  This is done in a bomb calorimeter, specifically Atwater determined that 1g of Carb and Protein yields 4 Cal and 1 gram of Fat yield 9 calories.
2.  A Calorimeter is completely insulated, no heat in or out, does that work for you on a cold morning?
3.  A Calorimeter always reaches equilibrium, all the energy is consumed, Not the case for you unless you have risen from the dead, a pulse rules you out of this requirement as well.
4.  A Calorimeter only allows reactions in one direction, from Carbs, Proteins, Fats to ashes, ever seen ashes in your toilet, didn't think so.  Your body can convert C, P, F, back and forth.
5.  A Calorimeter has one gear, it just burns everything up as fast as available oxygen allows.  Your mitochondria and cytoplasm offer many gears and routes for metabolizing, i.e. your body can release and harness the energy at different rates, no spontaneous combustion right? 
6.  Enzymes, you have them, lots of them hopefully, the calorimeter doesn't.  What, when, and how you eat, as well as what, when and how you move your body around object, and object around you body affect what enzymes you produce, as well has the inhibitors and co-factors.  Think of this like gears within gears within each of your 60 trillion cells.

So do we have it clear that you share nothing in common with Lab equipment, great, now tell your doctor so he can quit repeating non-scientific nonsense about calories in minus calories out, its total fantasy and not based on repeatable observations, (science) kind of like evolution but lets stay on track today.
Summing it up in vitro does not equal in vivo, or what happens in a test tube does not always apply to what happens in me.  Lots of people, even doctors, and clinicians screw this up regularly.
So now you are wondering what works in vivo.

I am living proof, I lost copious amounts of unwanted fat by get this, eating more fat!  Yup today I get about 50% or more of my calories from Fat.  Yes it is totally misleading because my body uses fat to make things like cell membranes, and hormones, and other important stuff, things you might be starving your body of on these Fad Low-Fat diets.  And of course I want things like neurotransmitters and neuro-peptides and muscles, those are great cause they raise my metabolism, so I eat lots of protein as well, no so much that I fart a lot that is the sign you are eating enough protein (not withstanding other causes, like milk).  And the carbohydrates I eat, I keep those pretty low lets say around 100 grams on a rest day, but on a High-Power workout day I'll bump it up close to 180, most of that extra is right after a workout mind you which helps keep the insulin in check.  So in sumary
Carbs are for high powered activities 100g is probably enough for you on a rest day (average American day)
Protein: a gram per pound of body weight is a good starting point adjust from there based on your bio-feedback.
Fat: bring it baby, unless it comes from soybeans, canola, or most vegetable oil.  Nut oils are generally good, avocados and coconuts are great. (100 grams is a good starting point, I sit closer to 200 most days).  Oh an saturated fat, eat it unless you don't want to produce testosterone, you know the hormone that makes you shed fat and put on muscles, muscles being those things that raise your metabolism.
It's odd how it all works together, like synergy, almost like it were designed to work that way.  GOD, yes God did that, bow down if you know whats good for you.


If you get fat eating like this, call me as you are a freak of nature and I will make you famous for having unique metabolic pathways not found anywhere in the animal kingdom.