Originally Posted by
RH Clark
My observation is that many calorie counters focus too much on the number of calories and not enough on the quality and nutritional value of those calories. By simply eating better quality calories, the desire-need to eat more calories can be significantly diminished.
Is that an actual observation based on a significant group of people or your perceived one?
Whenever I count calories (usually when training for a big mountain event) I'm also looking carefully at my macros and quality of nutrition. That's one advantage of using modern apps for calorie counting i.e. they give you a lot of additional information on both macro and micro nutrients without investing in a huge amount of effort. Calorie intake and expenditure is just one of many useful parameters they provide.