The calorie-counting model works short-term but fails for 85-90% of people long-term because the body adapts by lowering metabolic rate. The only consistent strategy is eating better quality food that keeps you full, not just eating less.
You can lose weight eating anything. It's been proven. You can lose weight eating Twinkies.
Yeah. If you ate 2 donuts a day, you'd lose weight. You can lose weight.
We know from studies, there's so many studies that show this, that caloric restriction more than 85, 90% of the time fails long term because you get adaptive thermogenesis, your thyroid changes.
Adaptive metabolism. Yeah.
Calories in, calories out works in the short term and fails in the long term. Really, the only strategy that I've seen that's successful for people to lose weight long term is to improve food quality because that's how you get satiety.