> There is no need to have a battle of science words to debate something which has been understood for a hundred years. Exactly how I feel. Weight loss is a he

> There is no need to have a battle of science words to debate something which has been understood for a hundred years. Exactly how I feel. Weight loss is a heated argument here on HN. There's the occasional diet denier, those who apparently gain more weight than calories contained in the food they eat "because of how their bodies work", et cetera. I think that there's no escape from thermodynamics. Not eating is the simplest thing one can do. Body will still burn fuel to keep you alive and functioning well. Plus, eat a pizza, ingest 1000Kcal. To run off 1000Kcal, eh...