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Calorie in/calories out is only half the story, if that much. The hormones in your body affect your metabolism, whether and how you store fat, whether and how you have strong cravings. Read Gary Taubes.[/quote]

This has been studied ad nauseum in the lab.  Calories in/ calories out is exactly 100% of the story.[/quote]

Nope!  http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/07/magazine/what-if-it-s-all-been-a-big-fat-lie.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm[/quote]

Also, this is a pretty muddled article generally, but it supports the idea that it's as simple as calories in, calories out.  It just suggests that people are obese [b]because of the calories[/b] that they get from drinking tons of sugary beverages and eating tons of carbs.  To quote:

"...this alternative hypothesis ... identifies the cause of obesity as precisely those refined carbohydrates at the base of the famous Food Guide Pyramid -- the pasta, rice and bread -- that we are told should be the staple of our healthy low-fat diet, and then on the sugar or corn syrup in the soft drinks, fruit juices and sports drinks that we have taken to consuming in quantity if for no other reason than that they are fat free and so appear intrinsically healthy."

The calories  in pasta rice and bread can make you fat as surely as the calories in double cheeseburgers.  I doubt that any rational adult is silly enough to believe that drinking thousands of calories of sugary beverages won't make you fat (as the article contends), but for anyone who is confused, let me clear it up: consume more calories than you burn, and you will get fat.  Consume less and you will lose weight.

Certainly your food choices affect how much you will [b]want[/b] to eat --- protein and veggies tend to make you feel full and provide good bang for the buck if you are maintaining a calorie deficit.   And, carbs may be more readily converted to fat than protein (I've seen that argument, but I don't understand the chemistry enough to know if it's right).

Also, your food choices affect how successful you will be in losing weight.  If you exercise, y our food choices will directly impact how effectively your body recovers from exercise.  For example, if you are lifting, you need more protein (US RDA numbers are for sedentary adults and more recent work by folks like Lemon have shown that they are far less than optimal for adults who exercise heavily).  As others suggested, if you work out a ton and run too high of a deficit, you will feel terrible and have trouble keeping it up, so you risk cheating and binging, which can quickly eliminate the calorie deficit that caused the binge.

The bottom line --- you can lose weight eating only twinkies or eating only fat and protein.  Neither is a good idea --- both extremes would carry health risks and would be unpleasant, but the equation in terms of losing weight is the same.
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