>In the end: calories in, calories out. If you're just talking about "weight loss" then yea, that's right, but you don't address body composition at all here.

>In the end: calories in, calories out. If you're just talking about "weight loss" then yea, that's right, but you don't address body composition at all here. If you just wanted to "lose weight", then you could chop off an arm and BOOM, you just lost weight. What MOST people want to do is to burn and lose fat, NOT weight - they just express it differently. If it was just calories in vs calories out, I could drink 3000 calories of vodka a day and still be okay as long as I burned off 3100 calories, and we all know that's not the case.