I'm really discouraged by the idiotic advice that "they type" of calories matter. Once I dropped that attitude and started looking at only calories, I found it easy to stay on track.
I mean, yeah, if you spend years getting calories from only fat and carbs, you will run into trouble. I skew healthy, anyway, and veggies are a great way to fill up with few calories.
The Twinkie diet professor experiment really should've put this discussion to rest.
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Yeah, when my VA Dr. told me I needed to lose weight, something I already knew, he also made me an appointment with a VA Nutritionist. Right away I bought a book by Dr. Atkins and started following the instructions. This was before they called it a "keto" diet. By the time my appointment with the nutritionist came around, I had already lost 50 pounds. When I told the nutritionist what I was eating every day I'm pretty sure she thought I was lying. She told me what I "should" be eating and I just politely listened and went on my way. I lost about 20 more pounds on Atkins and then went back to a more normal diet, although I still watch the carbs. I do some brutal kettlebell routines and watch what I eat and I have kept the weight off. It seems like, to me, the most important thing is to do away with the processed sugar. You really have to watch, it seems like they put it in just about everything!