> Of course calories in/calories out explains your weight loss/gain. I haven't seen a single study that shows anything except this. Have you seen one that actu

> Of course calories in/calories out explains your weight loss/gain. I haven't seen a single study that shows anything except this. Have you seen one that actually claims to prove it? I was looking for something conclusive, and have come up with a lot of explanations why the numbers diverge (atwater factors are inaccurate, everyone is self reporting, BMR not properly estimated, etc, etc.). A theory that works for 70% of the cases and fails to explain the remaining 30% is WRONG, even if you have no better competing theory.