Well, I'm highly skeptical of that number, but that's not the point here - I don't think anyone disputes that some people have a higher resting energy expenditu

Well, I'm highly skeptical of that number, but that's not the point here - I don't think anyone disputes that some people have a higher resting energy expenditure than others. Just to be clear - are you arguing against my point? Because if you wanted to lose weight, you'd 'just' have to eat less (quotes because of course it's not really easy. It's like the engineer's meaning of the concepts 'very hard', 'hard', 'trivial' etc.) Which is all I'm saying here - the relationship between weight and caloric intake.