Misconception #1: Calories don’t count

But they do. Ultimately, to lose weight, you need to burn more calories than you eat. It’s that simple. Some of the recent fad diets claim that your hormones, rather than too many calories, make you gain weight. Get the right hormone balance (e.g. insulin), they assert, and you can just forget about calories. But in the end, the body’s hormones respond to its caloric intake. Eat more calories than you expend, whether those calories are from fat, carbohydrates or protein, and the body has to somehow store them. Unfortunately, the body has only one major long-term storage depot, and that’s fat.

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