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Originally Posted by
jarude 
There should be a forum insta-ban for anything even tangentially related to carb intake, GI levels, meal frequency, and calorie counting.

To be fair, calorie counting works. Calorie in, calorie out is how you actually drop weight.
Now having said that, there have been numerous studies that have shown that the average person grossly undercounts the amount of calories they actually consume. We simply loose track of these things or don't have a real idea of what we are eating.