To be honest, keeping track of what you eat is hard no matter if you're trying to lose/gain/maintain weight. I don't really know a whole lot about trying to lose weight, and I've never really gone on a diet, but I keep track of what I eat and count sugar/carbohydrates because of my diabetes. But I think the thing with diets (for what the worth of an opinion of someone who has never really been on one - or at least on a diet which purports to lose weight) is that they're hard for anyone to maintain and that there are many setbacks and also that there is no one way to diet that is one hundred percent successful.

If... I would hazard a guess, I would think that maybe it is similar to taking care of diabetes. You have to have so much insulin with what you eat to balance your glucose, and too much or too little will devastate you. The same thing happens if you have too much/too little food with your insulin. And it's a matter of finding your balance and what foods are best for what you want to do.

Ummm, but that is only an uneducated analogy from someone who doesn't really know anything about diets.

...And... um, if you really want to know... I keep track of every fucking bite of food I eat and have been since I was old enough to keep track of my diabetes by myself and sometimes I still mess the fuck up. So it's not like, if you decide to keep track of everything, that you'd be alone or freakish in doing so. I think... that once you get in the habit of doing something, that perhaps it is easier? But I don't want to make assumptions about diets or your dieting or your feelings either.

Apologies for maybe seeming like I'm talking about myself. I am not trying to.