When choosing what to eat, do you consider the calorie content of food? If you're like most of us, you do, especially if you're trying to lose weight. For good reason, conventional wisdom tells us that in order to shed pounds, we simply need to use up more calories than we take in. This advice encourages us to count calories and thanks to food labels and an abundance of apps, we can easily track every calorie and every gram of carb, protein or fat we consume as well as every calorie we burn. Quantifying calories eaten versus those expended should, mathematically, make battling the bulge pretty easy, right? However, if you've ever tried to drop a few pounds, you know, it is neither simple nor easy and rarely does the math work this way. Here's why.
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