It's also hard to accurately capture your diet even when acting in good faith.
I had one of those apps where you record your calories and nutrients, and packaged food was pretty easy- you just select "1 can of coke" from the database. But if it's a serving of vegetables someone plated for you, was it a cup or 1.5 cups? Did they add a ton of salt that you don't know about?
You basically have to either eat all prepackaged foods (unhealthy) or prepare all your meals yourself and religiously measure and track every recipe component to get an accurate assessment.
Nobody is fat because they underestimated their plain brocoli. Salt dosen't have calories and the bloating effect of it has a cap, and is temporary. Frozen, or fresh organic watered with Hymalayam fair trade dew, dosen't have an important effect on caloric content.
Fast food menus usually have calories listed, and over the months, you get better at estimating what you can't mesure, and spot obvious oversized fries portions double what they mesured for the menu. ( A single combo meal at fastfood restaurents is enough for two people, btw. No wonder Westerners are fat if they look at food for two and eat it all alone.)
A food scale fixes mesuring problems at home for nearly everything, and you can adjust your intake by jumping on the scale daily to make sure your estimations are within a margin of error.
Not losing weight when plotting your daily mesurement? You still eat too much. That's it. Stop trying to find the gotcha : you eat too much.
If everything is done in good faith, it works. People like to overcomplicate things because they want excuses for not making the effort to eat less.
You cannot ever trust the self-reported diet of anyone, not even dietitians.
ALL RESEARCHERS know self-report = lies, and the fatter the self-reporting fattie, the more they lie. This is documented to Hell and back.
Any studies based on self-report is trash, and should never get funding or aprouval. It's useless. It's worse than useless : it's false data.
It's also hard to accurately capture your diet even when acting in good faith.
I had one of those apps where you record your calories and nutrients, and packaged food was pretty easy- you just select "1 can of coke" from the database. But if it's a serving of vegetables someone plated for you, was it a cup or 1.5 cups? Did they add a ton of salt that you don't know about?
You basically have to either eat all prepackaged foods (unhealthy) or prepare all your meals yourself and religiously measure and track every recipe component to get an accurate assessment.
Nobody is fat because they underestimated their plain brocoli. Salt dosen't have calories and the bloating effect of it has a cap, and is temporary. Frozen, or fresh organic watered with Hymalayam fair trade dew, dosen't have an important effect on caloric content.
Fast food menus usually have calories listed, and over the months, you get better at estimating what you can't mesure, and spot obvious oversized fries portions double what they mesured for the menu. ( A single combo meal at fastfood restaurents is enough for two people, btw. No wonder Westerners are fat if they look at food for two and eat it all alone.)
A food scale fixes mesuring problems at home for nearly everything, and you can adjust your intake by jumping on the scale daily to make sure your estimations are within a margin of error.
Not losing weight when plotting your daily mesurement? You still eat too much. That's it. Stop trying to find the gotcha : you eat too much.
If everything is done in good faith, it works. People like to overcomplicate things because they want excuses for not making the effort to eat less.
And that doesn't even take into account the difference between raw ingredients. Was that cup of vegetables fresh and organic or frozen?