This is interesting, but people shouldn&#x27;t be misled. Counting calories _always_ works for weight loss. If you simply eat fewer calories than your body needs each day, you will lose weight.<p>There was a very highly cited paper in the NEJM where they studied a group of people who believed they were &quot;diet resistant&quot; using a new technique--doubly labeled water--to determine how much they were really eating and exercising.<p>Every single person in the study--every last one of them--lied to the doctors about how many calories he or she was eating.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nejm.org&#x2F;doi&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;10.1056&#x2F;NEJM199212313272701" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nejm.org&#x2F;doi&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;10.1056&#x2F;NEJM199212313272701</a><p>The last paragraph says:<p>&quot;In conclusion, all the obese subjects we studied who had a history of self-reported diet resistance had appropriate energy expenditure, but they misreported their actual food intake and physical activity.&quot;<p>In other words: &quot;Fatties gonna fat.&quot;