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This is true, but it ignores a lot of other things that are going on: Absorption and digestion can greatly vary between humans. (A Common example are algae).
by legulere 10y ago
This is true, but it ignores a lot of other things that are going on:
Absorption and digestion can greatly vary between humans. (A Common example are algae).
What kind of micro and macronutrients you eat will directly and indirectly affect your metabolism.
What you eat will affect your hunger.
Those and other complex interplays lead to things that are counterintuitive. For instance there recently was some study that drinking soda with artificial sweetener also leads to obesity, if I remember correctly.
- 234dd57d2c8db 10y agoNone of that matters. If you're gaining weight, consume less calories until you start losing weight. Safe weight loss is a lb a week. It will take quite some time to safely slim down. That is the problem, it took years to put on the weight, people try eating less for a couple weeks and throw up their hands! People don't realize if they are 50lbs overweight, it will take about a year to lose all that safely and comfortably.