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Being Fit: Can We Ever Dispel The Calories In-Calories Out Myth?
Or why what you eat and how you live matters, not just calories
You see above, my cardio and steps for the past week. I’m fit. I’m healthy. It was an active week, but you can see I couldn’t even crack an average of 2,000 calories burned despite a hefty increase in the amount of cardio minutes I did and a significant increase in the average number of steps I took per day.
If I’d been eating like many others do, I may have been this active, and even gained weight!
Of course I did not gain weight: I eat a pretty standard diet most days. When I deviate from it, I know I can quickly get on track the next day.
I recently saw a fellow Noom user (I am going off the app in a couple of months — I don’t need it any longer and have long-since completed the program) say that they had followed a strict macrobiotic diet for a decade, eating less than 1,600 calories a day, “primarily barley and wheat.” The result? Over this time, the person gained 100 pounds, and was presently using the Noom service to lose the large amount of weight.
The — by this time — moronic and crude mantra of “eat fewer calories than you burn per day” and you will lose weight — it drives me crazy, it is so wrong and bass-ackward and…
