Tired of calculating calories ? Skeptical about following a low calorie diet or not? Then this article is for you. I’m talking about an extraordinary experiment that was then taken up by many media and that I discovered a few days ago, reading everything about this story. Premise: I tend to calculate calories and keep myself in a caloric range in order not to gain weight, but I understand that many experts advise against counting calories, but to eat to your fill, so as not to stress the body and not to slow down the metabolism, perhaps weighing yourself once a week on the scale without anxiety, and if we have gained some weight, be careful for a few days, not more, perhaps combining a few walks in the open air.On the other hand, the low calorie diet may NOT be the solution to our weight problems . While a healthy diet, with the only trick of feeling satisfied but not full to burst and paying attention to what we eat, focusing on healthy and natural food, could be the solution. Catherine Row, for example, states this, who has a very interesting blog and is an American nutritionist: her blog is called “Butter Nutrition”, and regarding the calculation of calories and low-calorie diets, Catherine writes: imagine you have a house to look after, and want to keep it working and in good condition without putting in the bulbs, without utilities, without cleaning, without housework. When we eat little, it’s a bit like deluding ourselves that we can make our body work by giving it nothing. Why should he lose weight, and not think about keeping what little fat he has, since we treat him like we’re starving? Sure we can talk about this for a long time, but you will admit that the reasoning runs.
But let’s go back to the experiment. A guy who has a blog on the ketogenic dietand low carb , i.e. on a diet that uses fats as fuel for the body (so yes to oil, butter, fatty cheeses, avocados, seeds, a few nuts), and to a normal extent the proteins of meat, eggs, fish, while reducing the consumption of carbohydrates with vegetables and one / two portions of fruit a day, he made an experiment on himself, followed by a doctor. If the calorie count made sense, every time we increase our daily requirement by a few hundred calories, we should eventually gain weight? Or not? If I add 200 calories to my daily requirement for a month, I will theoretically have taken 6,000 calories more, gaining a little less than a pound. The calorie count says this. But  Sam Feltham

, the protagonist of this story, has done much more. He ate 5800 calories a day despite being a normal weight boy, with the only care to follow a low-carbohydrate diet. And he did it for 3 weeks. You got it right. Sam, sportless, with a lean but not muscular physique, ate more than double his daily caloric requirement: up to 5,800 calories per day for 21 days. The result? According to the theory of calculating calories and his caloric needs, in 21 days of diet Sam added about seventy thousand calories (considering his basic diet a diet of 2600 calories) more and should have gained AT LEAST eight kilos (according to his calculation. half past seven).