Calories in, calories out is disingenuous when talking about anything but a literal mechanical machine / vegetative state patient you feed fuel into or not. T

Calories in, calories out is disingenuous when talking about anything but a literal mechanical machine / vegetative state patient you feed fuel into or not. The PRIMARY in human diets to adjust weight is psychological including both degrees of willpower and degrees of not needing willpower due to the feeling of satiety. Pretending "you could have just accomplished exactly the same thing by cutting calories" ignores completely the implied second half of that formulation: infinite willpower and endurance in the face of discomfort. People have to work and earn livings and lead lives, they cannot persist indefinitely in ego depletion. It's about as ridiculous as saying anyone with the requisite genetics can be a world class body builder, if they just "worked out". Yeah. No, they can't, because there is a helluva lot more to it.