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6 Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Count Calories

March 28, 2018

I talked to Aaptiv for this article about why counting calories might not always be the best way to reach your healthy eating goals:

You might be focused just on what you look like, but your mental health matters, as well. “Counting calories shifts the focus from the actual food and places it on its caloric value,” says Maya Feller, MS, RD, CDN. “Rather than looking at the nutrients [that] the food can provide, counting calories places value on the energy that the food delivers. This can lead to dangerous restrictive eating patterns.”

Maya Feller

Maya Feller, MS, RD, CDN is the founder and lead dietitian at Maya Feller Nutrition. In her practice, her team provides medical nutrition therapy and nutrition coaching for cardiovascular disease, diabetes, mood disorders, developmental disabilities, disordered eating, and more. Maya believes in providing inclusive nutrition education from an anti-bias patient-centered, culturally humble approach to help people make informed food choices. Maya shares her approachable, food-based solutions with millions of people through regular speaking engagements, writing, her social platforms, and as a national nutrition expert on Good Morning America, is a Healthline Medical Advisor, and on the advisory board for SHAPE and Parents, as well as appearing on TODAY Show, Tamron Hall, and in The New York Times, mindbodygreen, Well+Good, Food Network, Martha Stewart, Real Simple, Good Housekeeping, Cooking Light, Eating Well, Prevention, Glamour, SELF, and more. She is the author of The Southern Comfort Food Diabetes Cookbook: Over 100 Recipes for a Healthy Life and Eating from Our Roots: 80+ Healthy Home-Cooked Favorites from Cultures Around the World (goop Press, January 24, 2023).

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