> Low calorie is just forced starvation and although you will always lose weight this way, it's an uphill battle because you're fighting the body's fat regulati

> Low calorie is just forced starvation and although you will always lose weight this way, it's an uphill battle because you're fighting the body's fat regulation mechanism. You might be eating high-carb but low calorie, causing insulin spikes, extreme hunger, and protein wasting. It's not an easy diet to follow and it might even be counterproductive. This is based on a false dichotomy of dieting sustainably low carb or unsustainably starving yourself. Let's say we have someone who is 6' and 260lbs. To get to that state you need to consistently eat a diet of around 4000 calories. If that person eats 2000 calories of ANYTHING for the rest of their life, which should be completely sustainable, they will not only lose the weight (down to about 180 lbs), they will keep it off. On the other hand, if that person continues to eat 4000 calories but they change their diet entirely to a ketogenic diet, guess what: they will still be fat. The point is that when we are dealing with the 30% of Americans who are now obese, the low hanging fruit is in simply eating less. There may or may not be a suboptimization in macronutrient composition, I'm not saying that's definitely wrong. I'm just saying there's more low hanging fruit than that.