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I do not quite follow what this diet plan is supposed to achieve. You make it sound like I can eat whatever I want as long as I don' t go beyond a specific value. If I take this into account, I could eat a whole chocolate cake as long as I did not eat anything else for the rest of the day. I do no know the basic logic behind this. Also it is a problem for a common man to calculate calories each day. We so busy each and every day and who has time to all this calorie counting stuff. I do not know why people follow all this things instead of having a balanced diet and exercise regularly. Meena replied. I think you have the wrong idea. The article is not about following a specific diet. It is about using your common sense. These new fad diets focus on cutting out various food groups and literally starving yourself. Nowhere does this article mention that you should not eat a balanced diet. It all depends on your capacity to burn all the calories you eat so that your weight does not increase. It just means that if you are unable to burn calories you should control your calories intake to the extend you need it.