re: So protein has 4 calories per Gram...

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You can easily eat excess calories eating healthy foods.

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Eh...I don't know if I'd go with "easily". You're more than likely going to feel like you are stuffing yourself if you are overeating on only good 'healthy' food.

4,000 calories a day of whole, measured, healthy food is elite level bodybuilder type of stuff, and they have to have insane discipline and almost torture themselves to get that type of diet in.

I'd say for most people, if they actually limit themselves to 'only healthy food' then yeh, they will probably not need to count calories to lose weight/maintain a healthy weight. The body will regulate that pretty damn well. The problem is being honest about it. Eating eggs and oats for breakfast, chicken and rice for lunch, and steak and veggies for dinner is a really easy way to stay full on a <1500 calorie diet. But if you sneak in a glass of milk, snack on some chips, and have a coke between meals all of the sudden you are way outside of weight loss/healthy range.