Posted: Mar 08, 2011 1:13 am
amused wrote:Apollonius wrote:If the body did not respond this way, everyone would be exercising off what they want and life would be pleasingly simple.
In large part, it is that simple. I know that all my weight gain came from an excessive fondness for, um, mixed drinks. Now that the fondness is gone, it's easy to melt the pounds back off using calorie control. My heavier weight isn't my normal weight, the slimmer me is normal. I suspect that a lot of people can admit to excessive fondness for a lot of foods/liquids that don't have to be a part of their daily diet.
If you cut out liquids with sugar/carbs, and it worked. That makes sense. That does more than just reduce calories. It changes your body's chemistry and leads to a lower weight over time. That is what the calories in/calories out critics are saying.
Calories in/calories out says that is not the case, and it's just an equation with calories as the only variable.
In other words, if you cut out the sugar/carb drinks, not only did you reduce calories, you lowered insulin, and therefor lowered the weight your body wants to adjust to. (I'm attempting to paraphrase Taubes, a critic of calories in/calories out) You can give the less calories credit if you want to, but there was more going on.