I feel you are intentionally conflating / confusing the discussion. For example: > If you think you can eat say 500-1000 cals over your daily allowance with a

I feel you are intentionally conflating / confusing the discussion. For example: > If you think you can eat say 500-1000 cals over your daily allowance with any diet and not gain weight, man you have really really been sold hard on this. No one's saying this - at least, the article isn't, and nor am I. I will say that you can easily eat 500-1000 cals over your daily allowance with a particular diet (notably low-carb) and not gain weight - and that's what you seemed to be arguing against earlier. I've got 3 years of carefully recorded data that demonstrates this is the case -- but I'm just one of a huge number of people who have proven this out over the years. So I'm not clear what point you're trying to make.