Jim KatsoulisJim AI — Your Personal Guide to Living at Your Goal Weight

why you don't see the extra calories

28 Dec 2025 · 0 min

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A short YouTube video by Jim Katsoulis arguing that people fail to notice extra calories the same way the brain ignores the nose in vision. He uses the perceptual-deletion analogy to warn that unseen calories still exist and advises viewers to actively identify and remove them to lose weight.

The same reason you don't see the extra calories you're consuming is the same reason why you don't see your nose right now. Because your brain's deleting it. If you close one eye and look at your nose, you see it close the other eye. Look at your nose, you see it open both eyes, your nose disappears because your brain just deleted it. And your brain's doing the same thing with the extra calories you're consuming. Just because you don't see them doesn't necessarily mean they're not there. So start to really look for the extra calories, because once you identify them, then you can remove them, and then you will start to lose weight.