The calorie-in/calorie-out model has been proved by over 6 decades of quality research, yet people continue to emphasize the importance of restricting particular macronutrients.

An excellent post, Evil.

Heah Kellie, the beginning is the hardest: You are used to eat whatever you like, whenever you like and now through pure willpower have to say no to that. But after a little while you get accustomed to it and realize that you actually have power of these cravings.

The key for me was that I could still have the foods I liked and having something low cal inbetween meals kept me from being hungry until meal time finally arrived. Sometimes just a carrot or a slice of bread was enough to tide me over.

But why aren’t you eating the whole day? No wonder you are literally starved in the evening! 😉

And yes, I’m fine with you using the excerpts.

Oh, exactly: Why make it overly complicate?

And there are no before pictures of me because at that point I wasn’t too keen on being photographed at all 🙂

But yeah, I don’t understand why people have such a hard time accepting that the facts are so easy. I mean, it’s so much simpler, yet people seem to want rules like “no carbs after 8 in the evening”, “10 cups of green tea a day”, and all the other silliness.

I think having learned basic programming really helps you think logically. Every single “if” you throw in to a script means more work. The fewer “ifs” etc you have, the simpler & faster the script is to make. Same goes for dieting, the simpler the rules, the simpler it is to win the game.

Yeah I will just pop over to Germany, it’s only a short trip.

Thanks for the friendly words, Sean! I just have to watch out that I don’t come across as some kind of holy crusader. After all, it took me myself some insight as well until I realized it really is that simple.