Studies have consistently shown that calorie deficit or excess doesn’t result in the expected weight loss/gain and this is magnified depending on if the food source is carb of protein/fat based.
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I’d like to see these “so called” studies…
Yep, Calories In, Calories Out is simplified horseshit.
It really isn’t!!!
If you put in less calories than your are putting out, you will lose weight!
The problem is accurately measuring what you put in and what you put out.
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The problem is with everything in that phrase.
- You don’t know the calories in.
- You don’t know the calories out.
- 1 cal of one type of food is not equal to 1 cal of another type of food.
- Nutritional needs are more than energy can describe.
- Weight loss is not the same as excess fat loss.
I mean you name it, every part of that statement and it’s underlying assumptions are flawed.
A more useful and correct phrase would be:
—Eat less than you need to lose weight—
And even that misses what we need as endurance athletes.
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Rest day ( first for 10 days… shame, shame ) got scrapped.
Today was the only day one of the guys could make boxing so I bit down and rocked up, not a bad effort in the end, footwork was more CANELO than Lomachenko though.
Even managed a hard 3 mins on the pads.
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I totally agree with 1 and 2.
Could you explain more about 3?
I fail to understand why 100 calories of pizza isn’t the same (energy) as 100 calories broccoli.
One calorie is one calorie.
I’m not talking macro nutrients or feeling fuller for longer here.
I know pizza is shit and broccoli is good.
But one calorie is one calorie.
4…meh 
5…totally, I’ve “only” lost 8lbs in the past 8 weeks, but I can see a couple of ribs now and my jeans can fit without undoing the buttons.
One calorie is a unit of measure if you set fire to the food and can heat 1cc of water by 1°C. That’s where that comes from. You can make you own judgement of how accurate that’s going to be for what goes on in our bodies.
If you consume one calorie of protein, do you think your body uses that in the same way it processes and uses one calorie of carbohydrate?
Alright, I’m not on the Atkins diet 
But I’m not going to eat 2,000 calories of protein in a day (to be fair, I don’t have a clue how what I eat breaks down - I have some veg, some fish/cheese/meat/eggs, some bread and a few beers, maybe a banana)
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So what you’ve actually said there is that you agree not all calories are equal. It’s okay. 
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Bottom line that is all it is 
I’d like to see those studies also.
Yeah, but…
…if you stick more in than you’re putting out, you’ll gain weight.
There’s far too much nonsense with weight loss.
It’s really not hard;
- Eat less crap
- Do more exercise
- Moderate your alcohol
This shut doesn’t sell books or time on morning TV shows, though 
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But hang on, you should love LighterLife and WeightWatchers. They have entirely simplified the whole process and based their business entirely on the notion of calories in/calories out.
And yet in the long term they don’t work, how could this be?
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So with the warm weather, the east south east wind, I did 3 laps of richmond park, managed to squeak in under 70 minutes too…
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Probably not the wisest move attempting an over-under interval session after my second COVID jab and generally feeling sh1te. Abject failure, but an hour in the bank, a Zwift route ticked off and got a KOM jersey. 
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Is that good?
All kitted up for a ride this aft, then the work needed doing instead 
Then the electrician showed me what he’d done “erm, pretty sure my wife could be listening to this”
Then it’s jab time for my wife.
Bye bye window of opportunity
Just walking the dog around the vaccination site now
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Because people fall back into their old habits.
It’s the habitual snacking, poor food choices, which are hard to break.
Also, they tend to focus on people who are less affluent, so once they’ve lost weight, they stop going to meetings and buying the branded meals, slipping back into their old ways.
That’s how the whole business works.
Likes it’s designed for repeat customers.
Just did a Google…
One 150g bag of crisps is the same calories as 2.4kg of broccoli 
I can easily demolish a bag of crisps, but 2.4kg broccoli? No chance.
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