When are people going to think it's a simple as calories in/calories out?

Partridge wrote:

You can't magically produce body weight out of thin air without eating,

It's amazing how many people don't understand this.

drunk runner. wrote:

It's amazing how many people don't understand this.

Yes, but they claim that isn't what is going on, they attempt to "explain" it with a magical combination of "muh genes", "muh metabolism", "muh thyroid", "muh hormones", "muh carbs". Sometimes they have fantasies of knowing what cavemen ate - then go to the shops and buy caveman foods, just like cavemen did - clue they mostly starved and ate anything they could find - plants and insects being plenty more common than 21st century cattle and 21st century battery farmed chicken.

CICO is the only equation that works. Everything else is noise.

I guarantee you that you'll never gain weight if you do the following:

1) 10k steps daily

2) No eating past 7pm

3) nothing fried

4) no bread / pasta (non fruit / veggie) carbs after 12pm

5) no snacking

6) 3 meals a day

7) less than 4 drinks a week (wine only for simplicity)

its not rocket science. Smoke and mirrors / compexity is created to make an industry (AKA consulting, $$$, etc) out of it. Don't be so stupid people.

I've never heard "tyroid" and "fat" in the same sentence so many times...yet all these people with "tyroid" issues also talk to me about their microbeer / foodie hoobies.

Nothing gets the LR crowd up in arms more than a thread on one of these 3 topics: Tattoos, diet, teachers/teaching profession.

runnerchef wrote:

CICO is the only equation that works. Everything else is noise.

I guarantee you that you'll never gain weight if you do the following:

1) 10k steps daily

2) No eating past 7pm

3) nothing fried

4) no bread / pasta (non fruit / veggie) carbs after 12pm

5) no snacking

6) 3 meals a day

7) less than 4 drinks a week (wine only for simplicity)

its not rocket science. Smoke and mirrors / compexity is created to make an industry (AKA consulting, $$$, etc) out of it. Don't be so stupid people.

I've never heard "tyroid" and "fat" in the same sentence so many times...yet all these people with "tyroid" issues also talk to me about their microbeer / foodie hoobies.

1. I cover 15K steps daily.

2. I never eat after 7 p.m.

3. I never eat fried anything.

4. I never eat bread/pasta, or fruit, other than blackberries sometimes in the a.m. (fewer than 10).

5. I don't snack.

6. I eat three meals a day.

7. I don't drink.

And I ate one small white flour tortilla shell with a burrito Saturday at lunchtime. I was up 1.5 pounds Sunday, and this a.m. My weight was static for 11 weeks previously, now I am up 1.5 pounds, and the only change in activity or food has been one small white flour tortilla shell.

So you’re really claiming eating a 150 calorie tortilla made you gain a pound and a half?

D2D2 wrote:

So you’re really claiming eating a 150 calorie tortilla made you gain a pound and a half?

There was a UK TV show called "Secret Eaters" which you can find on Youtube - basically nobody who has ever lived truthfully and accurately recounts what they ate. Amazingly if you put obese volunteers in isolation and only feed them the diet they claim to eat, they magically lose weight - presumably all those "hormones" and "metabolisms" don't work to generate fat from nothing under controlled conditions.