The Great Calorie Counting LIE- How Legal Loopholes, App Errors & Your Microbiome are Messing with Your Weight Loss

Here’s an overview of what you can expect in today’s episode:

• 00:34 - Intro

• 02:31 - Calorie Need Calculations Really Kinda Suck

• 05:37 - Calorie Labels On Foods and Apps Are Notoriously Inaccurate

• 07:58 - Our Gut Microbiome Impacts The Calories We Get From Food

• 12:24 - We Just SUCK At Estimating Our Intake and Needs

• 14:49 - Risks for Disordered Eating

• 17:32 - Tips for Navigating Calorie Counting that ACTUALLY Work

References:

• Indirect Calorimetry in Clinical Practice (pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6780066/#:~:t…)%20is%20considered,benefit%20balance%20of%20nutrition%20therapy)

• Ability of the Harris Benedict formula to predict energy requirements differs with weight history and ethnicity (pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2598419)

• Validation of several established equations for resting metabolic rate in obese and nonobese people (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12963943)

• A cellular level approach to predicting resting energy expenditure: Evaluation of applicability in adolescents (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20058259)

• Nutrition labeling of food (law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/21/101.9)

• Energetic consequences of thermal and nonthermal food processing (pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3228431)

• Effect of host genetics on the gut microbiome in 7,738 participants of the Dutch Microbiome Project (nature.com/articles/s41588-021-00992-y#:~:text…)

• Roles of gut microbiota and metabolites in overweight and obesity of children (frontiersin.org/journals/endocrinology/article…)

• Review article: dietary fibre-microbiota interactions (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26011307)

• Host-diet-gut microbiome interactions influence human energy balance: a randomized clinical trial (nature.com/articles/s41467-023-38778-x)

• The portion size effect: Women demonstrate an awareness of eating more than intended when served larger than normal portions (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29544759/#:~:text=They…)%20correctly%20identified%20eating%20more)

• Calorie counting and fitness tracking technology: Associations with eating disorder symptomatology (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28214452)

• My Fitness Pal Calorie Tracker Usage in the Eating Disorders (pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5700836/#S1)

• The Effect of Adherence to Dietary Tracking on Weight Loss: Using HLM to Model Weight Loss over Time (pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5568610/#sec2)

• Tracking food leads to losing pounds (sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/02/190228154839…)

• Reducing Calorie Intake May Not Help You Lose Body Weight (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28657838)

Disclaimer: The content in this episode is for educational and entertainment purposes only and is never a substitute for medical advice. If you’re struggling with your mental or physical health, please work one on one with a health care provider.
If you have heard yourself in our discussion today, and are looking for support, contact the free NEDIC helpline at 1-866-NEDIC-20 or go to eatingdisorderhope.com. (eatingdisorderhope.com)

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