One recent model estimated that eating a mere 30 calories a day more than you use is enough to lead to serious weight gain. The article here is being a bit mis

One recent model estimated that eating a mere 30 calories a day more than you use is enough to lead to serious weight gain. The article here is being a bit misleading. The calories in/calories out model says that if you add 30 calories/day to your diet, you will get a little fatter and stop. http://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2011/weight_stability.html http://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2011/weight_stability.html If you actually experience serious weight gain, it's because you first added 30 calories/day to your diet, then added 30 more, and continued for a long time. http://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2011/inanity_of_overeating.html http://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2011/inanity_of_overeating... This is nonsense that Gary Taubes was pushing a few years back - it's sad to see that it's become a mainstream meme, particularly when simple arithmetic shows it's misleading. The article goes further off the rails: Why, if body weight is a matter of individual decisions about what to eat, should it be affected by differences in wealth or by relations between the sexes? Clearly, a woman living in India will make the exact same choices as a woman in Sweden - her environment will never lead to different choices. This idea that gaining/losing weight is hard is nonsense. I do it regularly. About 7 months ago I was finishing up a bulk - I weighed 240lb, and added an extra 45lb for chinups. After my cut I was 196 and rocking a 6 pack. I ate 5 meals a day plus a snack while bulking, little more than rice and dal and some eggs while cutting. It's called self control.