Can't Lose Weight? You're Probably Eating More Than You Think.

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No, your metabolism isnโt ๐ฃ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฌ๐ฆ๐ฏ, you arenโt a ๐ด๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ค๐ช๐ข๐ญ ๐ด๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ธ๐ง๐ญ๐ข๐ฌ๐ฆ, youโre simply human.โฃ
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People are notoriously incorrect at estimating how much they are eating. โฃ
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One seminal study on this topic found that obese adults who claimed to be eating less than 1200 Calories per day and not be losing weight were underreporting by nearly 50%! Other studies have found that normal weight people, athletes included, underestimate by an average of 10โ20%.โฃ

This isnโt always due to poor tracking on your end, either. The food databases you use could simply be inaccurate. โฃMaybe you donโt chew your nuts, so you donโt digest them as well as the food database assumes. Maybe you eat your potatoes cold, so they have more resistant starch and less metabolizable energy than your food tracker says.โฃ
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๐ง๐ต๐ฒ ๐ฝ๐ผ๐ถ๐ป๐ ๐ฏ๐ฒ๐ถ๐ป๐ด: if you donโt track, youโre probably not estimating your food intake accurately. If you do track, youโre still probably not estimating your food intake accurately.โฃ
Blog post mentioned in the video can be found here.
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