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Comment author: [deleted] 10 January 2014 11:05:35PM -2 points [-]

You can't live on just water.

Can you live on just beef? (Possibly, but is it healthy to live on just beef? Is it fun to live on just beef? Is it cheap to live on just beef? Is it convenient to live on just beef?)

If you want to keep your calories below a certain amount, you need to track calories.

What do you mean by “track calories”? Did pre-WW2 Okinawans track calories?

Comment author: drethelin 10 January 2014 11:20:22PM 0 points [-]

as in figure out how many calories are in each item you eat and then write it down and add it up?

Comment author: EHeller 10 January 2014 11:36:33PM *  2 points [-]

I think his point is that you don't have to know the exact number of calories to lower how many calories you are eating. You can roughly ballpark it. i.e. if I want to eat 1/3 fewer calories I can eat 2/3 of my usual portion size.

Comment author: [deleted] 11 January 2014 09:31:43AM 0 points [-]

Exactly. Another possibility is to look at these pictures, decide which ones look the least satiating, and avoiding those kinds of food.

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