counting calories is easier than i thought it would be!! i keep a mental estimation in my head, with some planning ahead. like hte others have said i like that i can eat anything i want, if its in my calories.
for example, yesterday i had turkey sausage and a small piece of cheddar cheese for breakfast-228 calories. string cheese for a snack-60, for a total of 288. i was at work, had brought some vegetable soup and green giant steamable veggies for lunch and a snack. got too busy for lunch (im a nurse, so if there is too much to do, you can't sit down to eat)--didn't eat anything after 10am string cheese snack. so, with all those calories left i ate a bag of salt and vinegar potato chips (450cal) and a dr pepper (250) for dinner--- 988 cals for the day. too low but i wasn't hungry to eat anything else. lost 1.9 since yesterday.
this isn't healthy to eat potato chips for my calories, so i am trying to keep that to a minimum. doing good at losing some weight with calorie counting, now trying to incorporate more healthy foods into those calories

lol...calorie counting can be a pain but after a while I just realized that I could tally in my head and keep a running count thru the day. I made sure to learn the calories in everything and now I am just a walking calorie counter that my friends call to find out how many calories in their food :)

i've been calorie counting the whole time, because i felt the WW points system was confusing and the new one was restrictive. i use my fitness pal, which has an android and iphone app as well as a website to keep track of all that nifty stuff. other sites offer the same kind of thing, as well as calculating your daily 'goal' for you. i tend to put that number as the middle of my range, and try to hit +/- 100 calories of it. makes it a little easier when, at the end of the day you have 65 calories left and you want that 100 calorie snack. :)

Calorie counting is actually the simplest solution for me. If I have to keep track of fat and carbs and protein, it's way too much, and I just throw up my hands. Calories--for me--get to the root to the problem, and it's just one number to keep track of. As long as I'm under/at 1200, I'm good.

Now, yeah, there aren't counts for everything, but I've gotten a pretty good idea of how much various things are, and, for this, an estimate is good enough. I love calorie counting!