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Are your high- and low-calorie diets both just different quantities of roughly the same proportion of foods/nutrients? If so, then it seems like you aren’t real
by baddox 8y ago
Are your high- and low-calorie diets both just different quantities of roughly the same proportion of foods/nutrients? If so, then it seems like you aren’t really testing the calorie count independently. A better comparison might be a high-calorie diet of “healthy” foods versus a low-calorie diet of “unhealthy” foods.
- simonbarker87 8y agoI’ve tried two approaches. The first was just to reduce calories in all three macros proportionally and I lost weight, but I lost noticeable amounts of muscle. The second time I reduced just the carbs (still not “low carb” though) I lost the same amount of weight but retained more muscle. I think calories in calories out affects weight, the macro breakdown affects the type of weight lost (as in muscle vs fat)
- aspir 8y agoWhat you're proposing is testing two different variables in the same experiment. To dial in nutrition research, it's more traditional to control kcal count and test different nutritional quality, or control quality and vary kcal content.
- baddox 8y agoNot exactly, because the hypothesis is that calories is the only (or at least primary) thing that affects body weight.