Lardballoon describes how heartbreakingly easy it is to let the calories add up

Lol i hate dark chocolate but thanks for the advice tho. Knowing that is always useful in the future because if I do find some dark chocolate i like i can eat that more often. Are after eights dark chocolate?

Calorie counting is for if you want an amazing physique like mine.

Just eating small amounts of food can be r-slurred if they’re calorically dense.

Morons constantly recommend peanut butter and bananas as a diet food. Peanut butter is 200 calories for 2 tablespoons, that’s 10% of your nominal 2000 calorie a day diet. People eat way more than 2 tablespoons at a time, and bananas are one of the highest calorie fruits around (taste like shit too).

Store bough protein bars, and other “health foods” can give you absurdly low amounts of food in volume for ridiculously high amounts of calories.

You should absolutely count calories, even if you’re just eating small amounts of food. At the very least for an actual idea for how many calories you actually consume if you ever want to actually get shredded. It’s all just math.

i guess im just r-slurred about following numbers but it helps me know what i can and cant eat for the week. eat big at the start, eat smaller later

Hahaha, that's exactly the same thing, you idiot! It's just some people need a spreadsheet before they'll listen to hunger pains

it's for people who have been fat for so long that there body thinks 5000cal a day is normal

I used to find counting calories useful by treating it like a budget, which was helpful for discipline. Feeling a little bit hungry, but are you really feeling > 100 calories over TDEE hungry? Answer is usually no.

I eat basically nothing but carbs, and I’m the most shredded user here. It’s all calories in calories out.

Carbs aren’t triggering hunger in people, or making their body “cling to fat.”

People build this type of appetite from terrible lifestyle choices, eating out of boredom, and just being a degenerate.

Ghrelin can be a b-word when you’re on an actual cut, that when you’d prioritize protein dense foods that fit within your caloric budget, protein is physically more satiating. That’s the only indirect knock on carbs I can think of.

Most lardbuckets trying to lose weight constantly try to blame carbs instead of the massive amount of calories they eat everyday. 3500 calories in a pound of fat, know your actual TDEE and eat a small to moderate deficit. Average person will lose 3-4 pounds a month easily doing that.