Imagine the hunter-gatherer counting his calories. Laughable, no? He hovers next to his cave wall, counting on his fingers. Three carrots. One leg of bison, bloodied. Overdid it on the beets.





No. He did not do this, and neither do you. Counting calories is simply not a feasible way in which to live your life. After all, you understand that not all food particles are weighted the same. Sure: fat grams have nine calories each. However, those nine calories satiate you far more than a few extra grams of carbohydrates, any day of the week. Therefore, if you eat on the Paleo diet, your body will tell you, via natural comprehension, that it’s hungry.

That It requires sustenance. Your body will not be fueled with terrible cravings all the time. You will simply know when it’s time. And then: you will feast!





Look to the following reasons why you should stop counting calories and instead live wild and free on the Paleolithic Diet:



1. Most calorie labels hold inaccuracies. 1. Most calorie labels hold inaccuracies.

According to a recent study, a full 19% of in-restaurant meals were inaccurate by about 100 calories. Most horrifically, the “calorie-counter, dieter” recipes were generally far more calories than the menu proclaimed.

Furthermore, USDA labels are allowed to vary by 20%. This puts a 100-calorie snack anywhere from 120 calories to 80 calories.



2. Calorie counting promotes hunger. 2. Calorie counting promotes hunger.

When you actively restrict yourself from calories, you are looking to self-starvation to lose weight. According to a recent study, women who were calorie counting ate meals with assigned calorie counts. During the study, all of the meals contained the same number of calories. However, some of the meals were labeled with high calories numbers, and other meals were labeled with low calorie numbers. The women were asked if they were hungry after the meal. The women who had eaten the low-calorie labeled meals proclaimed feeling much more hungry than the women who ate high-calorie labeled meals.



3. Calorie-counting promotes the idea that low-calorie equates health. 3. Calorie-counting promotes the idea that low-calorie equates health.

When you’re counting calories, anything with low calories, in your head, is healthy. This mindset pushes you to prescribe to the idea that calories are the only reason for food consumption. This leaves you in the lurch with processed junk food, rich with chemicals but low in calories. Great. This means, your vital organs aren’t receiving the proper nutrients.



4. Calorie-counting doesn’t address the root of your overeating problems. 4. Calorie-counting doesn’t address the root of your overeating problems.

Nobody wants to be fat. Overeating is a result of a serious condition. If you’re eating for comfort after serious stress; if you’re eating to protect yourself; if you’re eating for any reason except for nourishment, you could fall into the overeating trap. Soon, you’ll be used to the crap diet. You’ll alter your hormones and fall into a sort of cyclical dilemma in which being overweight makes you crave food, and craving food makes you overweight.

The truth is, stress makes you overeat. However, overeating does not alleviate stress levels. Overeating does lead to greater weight gain, however, which can ultimately lead to higher stress levels. Another cycle.



