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I know that the net calories consumed/burned is what determines my weight, but the benefit of a low carb diet (only speaking for me) is that I am not hungry. I
by mmcgaha 7y ago
I know that the net calories consumed/burned is what determines my weight, but the benefit of a low carb diet (only speaking for me) is that I am not hungry. I lost 50 pounds in the first six months and have been at the same weight for 18 months.
- AnimalMuppet 7y agoThere's a bit more to it than that. First, it's calories absorbed, not consumed. That is, if I eat calories in a form that's harder to digest, my body may not get all the calories out of it that are in the food. I think that this is one of the deals with processed food - the processing makes it easier for your body to extract the calories from the food. The calories were already there, but they're processed into a form that your body can use more easily. Second, some foods (at least for some people) have some effect on metabolism, so that calories consumed is not totally independent of calories burned.
- oarabbus_ 7y agoWell, you are "anti-conflating" the latter and former. They are describing the same mechanism, not two separate ones.