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1. Yes, if you got fat, you consumed more calories than you used up. The solution will require getting closer to balance. 2. The actionable way to achieve that

1. Yes, if you got fat, you consumed more calories than you used up. The solution will require getting closer to balance. 2. The actionable way to achieve that is non-trivial. Different foods with same amount of calories have different physiological effects, including which hormones are produced with what timings and what neural circuitry is activated. This leads to different degrees of psychological fullness, cravings and potential for addiction. They may also promote more laziness or more fidgety behavior which itself can make more difference than often imagined. Moving your hands around, rocking your legs, standing up more often etc.,being more "restless" feeling the need to "get it out of your system" by going for a walk vs feeling like a slob. CICO and thermodynamics are true as an observation but aren't actionable long term advice. You can lose weight on just eating small amount of crappy pizza, but you'll feel like crap and will have more cravings than eating food with more volume, and various other properties. Even the crunchiness of a food has effects in the brain. CICO is too reductionist as advice.

hogFeast 6y ago
It isn't. And how often have you lost weight eating junk food yourself? I have done it...no effect. Satiety doesn't matter...thinking that it does is why people don't lose weight. You will be hungry, it will be unpleasant, but continue. Again, this is the fat person with the diet soda effect...most diets that exist don't work, that is why there are so many fat people. Reduce it to something simple, measurable, and it works. The idea of Good/Bad food is destructive for weight loss because it introduces guilt and complexity. Also, your basal metabolic rate means you can lose weight eating two medium pizzas a day...again, it is very hard to gain weight the way many people do, it is competitive eating amounts of greed done daily, and very few people have a strong idea of the calories in food...just vague moralising about Good and Bad.
- bonoboTP 6y ago
  I find it much harder to stop eating seasoned chips than unsalted peanuts. The latter still tastes nice but doesn't have me mindlessly consume 800 calories in one sitting because at one point my brain gets bored with it. My brain doesn't ever get bored with chips or chocolate sweets or sweet yogurts etc. So I don't buy them. If you overload your brain with engineered hyperpalatable packaged products, you will need superhuman willpower and discipline to keep your calories in check. There's no magic weight loss food, but it makes a difference whether you eat fibery, normal cooked meals or packaged salty fatty sugary tasty snacks all day. Yes it will manifest itself as calories in the end, but the only long term solution is to unhook yourself from the marketing machine and say NO in the supermarket.

hogFeast 6y ago

It isn't. And how often have you lost weight eating junk food yourself? I have done it...no effect. Satiety doesn't matter...thinking that it does is why people don't lose weight. You will be hungry, it will be unpleasant, but continue. Again, this is the fat person with the diet soda effect...most diets that exist don't work, that is why there are so many fat people. Reduce it to something simple, measurable, and it works. The idea of Good/Bad food is destructive for weight loss because it introduces guilt and complexity. Also, your basal metabolic rate means you can lose weight eating two medium pizzas a day...again, it is very hard to gain weight the way many people do, it is competitive eating amounts of greed done daily, and very few people have a strong idea of the calories in food...just vague moralising about Good and Bad.

bonoboTP 6y ago
I find it much harder to stop eating seasoned chips than unsalted peanuts. The latter still tastes nice but doesn't have me mindlessly consume 800 calories in one sitting because at one point my brain gets bored with it. My brain doesn't ever get bored with chips or chocolate sweets or sweet yogurts etc. So I don't buy them. If you overload your brain with engineered hyperpalatable packaged products, you will need superhuman willpower and discipline to keep your calories in check. There's no magic weight loss food, but it makes a difference whether you eat fibery, normal cooked meals or packaged salty fatty sugary tasty snacks all day. Yes it will manifest itself as calories in the end, but the only long term solution is to unhook yourself from the marketing machine and say NO in the supermarket.