The main benefit of calorie counting for me is just to viscerally understand how dumb it is to consume certain things. It’s so easy to glaze over this and not think about it otherwise.

A night of drinking a lot is like 1000+ calories, which only leaves 600 for nutrition if i want to maintain a calorie deficit.

On 1600 calories you are hungry a lot more, so having non nutritious things in your budget is just waste and leads to even more huger and suffering.

Given these constraints it becomes immediately obvious that drinking all the time is incredibly dumb unless you want to stay fat, unhealthy, and lose brain cells. Also i love sushi but damn it’s expensive in the calorie budget.

Just forcing these constraints on yourself leads to the inescapable conclusion to eat lean, clean, and unprofessed foods that keep you full and have high protein and macronutrient counts. Eggs, steak, etc. also the “volume eating” trend.

Why carnivore works so well starts to make a lot of sense.