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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Who is the illiterate weirdo who keeps talking about desert islands and boxes? That must be the same person. [/quote]

DP.  No, it’s actually a very clear illustration of a simple scientific truth that’s been demonstrated repeatedly through research  — when you eat fewer calories than your body required to support your activity level, you lose weight over the long term.  That’s simply, irrevocably, demonstrably true.  Name calling on the part of people who don’t want to accept that fact doesn’t change reality.

Are there very, very many things that impact how many calories each individual needs as well as how many calories each individual’s body can get from a particular serving of food?  Sure, those things vary wildly, so if you fed 10 different people who weigh the same amount the same exact foods for 6 months, they would absolutely wind up weighing very different amounts at the end.  That doesn’t change the physics however - if I eat fewer calories than my body needs, I will lose weight in the long term.

In addition to all of the objective things like genetics, gut bacteria, hormones, NEAT, exercise, body composition, etc. that impact how many calories a five individual needs, it’s also true that

- the actual energy content of food varies widely from label claims.
- the number of calories burned from exercise is impossible to measure without specialized lab equipment, most gym machines wildly overestimate it, and most people’s intuitive sense of this is off by an order of magnitude. 
- all humans are terrible at estimating how much they are eating, often getting it wrong by at least 100%. 
- the human brain is programmed to ear all the yummy fat and sugar, and really good at deceiving the logical brain that wants to eat healthily. 
- behavior change is really, really hard and friends and family will actively sabotage efforts to cut calories more often than not.

So yeah, weight loss is both very simple and incredibly, incredibly hard.

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Finally someone who gets it!![/quote]I'm not so sure. Is this suggesting that my body's weight gain or loss is solely related to the number of calories I consume, and not the glycemic impact of what's behind those calories? If so, then it is totally bonkers.[/quote]

This is a meta analysis of short and long term studies of the impact of glycemic index and glycemic load on body weight.

As you will see in section 4.2, there is insufficient evidence to conclude that GI or GL make any difference in BMI, body composition or waist circumference.  The data from different studies is mixed.  One consistent finding is that reducing calories is associated with lower BMI in all studies every time.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6213615/

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