Calorie Counting - Why You Shouldn't Overcome It

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If you do what we call yo-yo dieting, which often happens where people might calorie count, they've got a wedding to go to, the evidence shows that you tend to not maintain that weight loss. You can't fight your body's natural instincts. Evolution has designed them to be difficult to ignore. And those hunger cravings are often made worse because calorie counters may not focus on what is in the food they eat. Reaching for low fat and low sugar foods with fewer calories on the label to help them stay within their calorie allowance for the day. Often it's done to be the consumption of low sugar or low fat foods that we know are packed full of very highly processed

Food package labels can be complex. With so much information, many of us set a beeline for the calorie number, but there’s more going on in food than just the amount of energy. How much value is there in counting calories, and should you continue? The latest science could make you reconsider.

In today’s daily episode of ZOE Science & Nutrition, Jonathan is joined by Dr Sarah Berry to answer the question: Does calorie counting work?

This episode is part of a limited series to celebrate the launch of The Big IF study: The world’s biggest clinical study to discover how intermittent fasting affects our mood, energy and hunger. Want to know if intermittent fasting can work for you?

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