its a huge fallacy that the amount of food you ingest = the amount of food you absorb. we pee and poop out a lot of what we don't need. some of the stuff we s

its a huge fallacy that the amount of food you ingest = the amount of food you absorb. we pee and poop out a lot of what we don't need. some of the stuff we sweat and even breath out (like alcohol). I wouldn't give much credence to someone putting up mathematical figures up like that. going to the first point, when I decide i want to loose weight, i start with increasing my daily fiber. that alone is often enough for me to loose a few pounds