Why the calorie is broken
I&#x27;ve been fascinated by low carb diets for a while now, and in the past month I&#x27;ve been religiously counting everything I ingest, and found I settle naturally towards a very high fat, low carb diet (5% carbs, 25% prots, 70% fat)<p>My flatmate, who&#x27;s dieting with me, is appaled by the amount of fat I&#x27;m eating, constantly asking me if it&#x27;s healthy or whether I&#x27;m just going to get fat even if I am well below my TDEE. My response is basically &quot;a calorie is a calorie&quot;, i.e. I&#x27;m below my TDEE =&gt; I&#x27;m losing weight.<p>I know that the reality is more complicated, and the article does explain that very well; satiety is more important for dieters, and there&#x27;s also the unknown factor of gut microbes: am I comfortable low carbing because of satiety or just because my gut flora is different? Nobody knows actually.<p>This is a fascinating subject and there are far too many experts and anecdata that everybody&#x27;s right and wrong at the same time. Experiment, if you feel physically good and are not overeating (by counting calories) you&#x27;re on the right track. Take dieting advices with tons of salt. Make them your own.<p>Personally I struggle having more than two meals a day and eating more than 1800 cals (I&#x27;m 1.86m and 88 kg). If I were high carbing I&#x27;d go over the limit just to keep my hunger at bay. I once binged (on processed crap I was craving) and ate around 4K cals. I honestly don&#x27;t know how to do that on low carb, and especially eating healty. Unless I eat nuts: can eat over 1K cals in nuts in a single sitting.<p>And whoever said you NEED to eat n times a day: shut up, you&#x27;re wrong.<p>My advice: eat when you are hungry, eat real food, forget about macros.