13/10/2026
"Confession time: I used to love tracking my food in an app on my phone. I’d quickly add what I ate and drank, and would sport a oh-so-very-smug grin on my face when I “hit my numbers” for the day. There’s something deeply satisfying about reducing something as messy as eating to a tidy number. Which is exactly why it’s worth sitting with the question properly: if calorie counting is so logical, why does it so reliably stop working for so many women, myself included, at some point?
The short answer is that calories are real and they do matter, but the “calories in, calories out” model we were sold is an over-simplified version of a much more nuanced, much more interesting system.
Let’s get nerdy about why."
Read the full post here: https://thewholeyou.co/why-calorie-counting-stops-working/