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Comment by lumost

You're being downvoted as many people who try to count calories fail to achieve meaningful results. From my own experience, weight gain follows a simple progression.

1. Expected high stress work day -> Coffee w/ food item in the morning

2. Stress during the day -> No exercise + large lunch.

3. Post-day -> door dash due to not feeling up for cooking.

4. Sleep -> Get 6 hours of sleep due to not having the energy to maintain bedtime discipline, getting paged, or late night meetings + childcare obligations.

5. Repeat.

This cycle continues for a few months leading to 10-20 pounds of weight gain, followed by a year long push to rebalance life and lose the weight. There is nothing that a magic calorie counter could do for this cycle other than guilt me over my door dash order at the end of the night.

parent lumost 1 year ago

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