There are feedback mechanisms so that if you consume extra, you will want to move extra to compensate, and your basal metabolism might even rise to burn a few m

There are feedback mechanisms so that if you consume extra, you will want to move extra to compensate, and your basal metabolism might even rise to burn a few more. They aren’t perfect though, and something seems to have broken them on a really large scale the last 50 years or so. At least that’s my current thinking.