Podcast: A New Way to Count Calories 

His book, "How Not to Diet" definitely goes into how not all calories are created equal and how you process and eat your food can affect how you actually end up absorbing the calories. There's a wealth of knowledge in that book backed up by scientific studies; I highly recommend reading it! And for those of you thinking this video is just a promotion of his book to make money: he donates 100% of the proceeds he receives from all of his books to charity.

Paying attention to calorie density is the best weight-loss regimen I've ever tried! Not being hungry and even being able to snack a bit just by restricting high calorie density meat, eggs, dairy, & oils , plus paying attention to fiber diversity, means the pounds are disappearing with no suffering. You do have to learn to cook differently but it's so worth it! Thanks, Dr. Greger, for being a trustworthy info source. ❤

So for every pound I lose I should add a pound of lead to a backpack that I wear all day to continue losing weight at the same rate. 😁

Thanks for the great education as usual, Dr. Greger.

I get the point but the 3500 "rule" is about the total deficit, not just about eating 3500 calories less to lose a pound/500calories less a day to lose a pound. It actually does take into account that you need to adjust a lot of things. The rule does not say that you don't have to adjust exercise as you go or from the beginning. Actually it says nothing about how you need to reach the 500 calorie deficit pr day. You just need a 500 calorie deficit. Then the rule still works because a deficit is a deficit. If you have the deficit, then you also have adjusted whatever needs to be adjusted so that you still reach the deficit despite metabolic adaptation and other factors. If you haven't adjusted then clearly you don't have a deficit any longer and therefore not following the "rule" any longer either..

Always making nutrition simple and easy to understand. Thank you!

Thank god we are back to nutrition

I'm 6'1 and used to be 92kg at about 10%bf. I went on risperidone (not for psychosis, but other medical reasons) for months, and it completely tanked my metabolism permanently. I went from eating 4,000-5,000 calories a day, always being lean. To having to scale down to 1,200 calories a day, while losing most of muscle, and increasing body fat% to near 18% at about 70kg. It completely changed my body's composition, with the effects not wearing off, even a year after.

I beg to differ on why we plateau. I'm kind of a freak about tracking things. I decided to go on a low calorie diet. I logged everything I ate and tracked the calories. I lost 100 lbs in a year of this. I also used a spreadsheet to keep track of things like my bmi, the number of calories my current weight required to just exist, and the calories I ate. I plateaued when the number of calories I needed daily to just exist eventually matched the number of calories I was eating daily.

Best explanation yet, thanks!!

Calorie counting is wrong. If caloric defiency translated into fat loss it would entail the bypassing of using the body’s glycogen stores to the point of depletion. No one achieves that on any given day unless they are on a ketogenic diet which in an of itself results in glyconeogenesis rather than using extra fat. The only way of efficently and sustainably losing fat mass is to eat a high fiber low (no) oil diet and increase lung capacity. I am happy he made that abudantly clear at the end of the video so I don’t even have to bother answers the expected loonies that immediately feel compelled to contradict me. 😂

I would love it if you would tackle the fact that these weight loss studies almost never include women.

I put whatever I buy on a spreadsheet with nutrition facts, and at the end of the month, I know how much I've eaten, including how much fiber, saturated fat, etc.

Full of useful information as always, thank you Dr. G.

Good information, thank you for sharing

I love these podcasts.

Yes, that makes sense!

Thank you

As someone who is down 32 pounds but now ravenously hungry and struggling not to gain weight, even while following the How Not To Diet guidelines, this is very depressing.

love this stuff

love the content, doc.

We shouldn’t be counting calories they are irrelevant. Food quality and nutrient density is what matters.

Why do we need a new way. What was wrong with the old way? And who is going to applause for telling us the old way was the wrong way?

Is such a thing as too much red cabbage real? Like, 4 pounds would be harmful?

Oprah LIED!

so, the new way to count calories requires you to buy his book first. sounds like a plan.

Лайк, но по факту у калорий нет влияния на вес, всё зависит от продукта. Можно сьесть банку мёда за день и похудеть и банку сгущёнки и поправится.

This is dumb, of course the 3,500 calorie rule means from your TDEE, not from the TDEE you had a year ago

I never count calories. I only count the sugar content. Then calorie is not a calorie.

What a load of crap

The affectations in your speech are off-putting and make the podcast nearly unlistenable. Just speak, please. The performative grunts and over-emphasis are not necessary.

Clickbait, nothing “new” here.