Better Body Goals-Accountability Thread

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http://www.scientificamerican.com/ar...-manufacturers
http://www.crossfitmtl.com/blog/2013...s-is-bullshit/
http://www.livescience.com/26799-cal...ml?cid=dlvr.it
Here you go. It's still morning I can't properly think of a response without aggravating my neck and gettin a headache so I'm leaving a few things I've read.

Neck is feeling a lot better but doc says I'm on bed rest for a week until its fully healed.

First, I'm glad your neck feels better. Neck pain is awful, and effects the whole body.

Second to address the links- they're referring to calorie counting from processed foods. Personally, I don't eat any processed foods.I don't get caloric info from a label, I look it up by what I'm eating in amounts, which I make a good guess at without having absolute measurements because I know amounts by size at this point. I don't eat anything that comes out of a box, unless you count a tofu package. I eat some prepared foods like hummus and corn tortillas, but I make almost everything I eat from whole food sources, so I know exactly what I'm putting into my body.

That said, what you link to is more a warning about what labels can mislead you about, not a case against calorie counting to aid fitness eating, except for the blog entry on crossfitmtl. She goes into details most people don't need to think about but ends with basically the same idea I want to get across- don't count them obsessively, though I would include to use them as a guideline, eat well and have enough activity to support what you're trying to do.

I could find you a hundred more refuting what the crossfit blog says, but the SA one is only an explanation, not a case against calorie counting, and the other is about deceptive labeling and inaccurate labels, and even they have the following quote:

Some researchers say that, on the whole, the inaccuracies in calorie estimates don't make a big difference. "For most uses, I think they're good enough," said Malden Nesheim, professor of nutrition emeritus at Cornell University, in Ithaca, N.Y., and co-author of the book "Why Calories Count" (University of California Press, 2012).

And when most people who use caloric intake as part of a successful approach to fitness eating can attest to the fact that utilizing them correctly works, I think I'll take the success rate. If not thinking about calories is working for you, by all means stick with that!

You don't have to use calories as part of your eating plan. I usually don't because I know already I don't eat too much. When I was a raw foodist I didn't, because the nutritient intake is so high, the paradigm changes. If not counting calories works for you, go for it. But that doesn't mean it doesn't work for millions of people who use it as part of their fitness plan, and all the fitness labs at Universities who have people on treadmills right now and take all of it into account- the calories, nutrients, and where the calories come from.

Anyway, not trying to argue, I just think the links aren't addressing the same thing I am. Done, here.

Today all bets are off. My daughter turned four, and I've eaten that many cupcakes. Made from scratch, of course.

Tomorrow, back to eating right. This is why it's nice to eat well most of the time. One day like this is no big deal. Except for the sugary yuck I'm feeling now. bleh. ha.