Well, first of all, the statement "if your caloric intake is lower than your consumption" is erroneous and should be fixed on Decius' part - to "if your caloric intake is lower than your *expenditure*".DownThunder wrote:That isnt true.decius wrote:GenerallyFading, if your total caloric intake is lower than your consumption, then you will lose weight whatever the proportion of nutrients.
On the other hand, if you wish to deny the first law of thermodynamics, we have a problem.
It is highly simplistic to treat the human body like a battery.
The type of nutrients, the rate and quantity at which you consume them all matters.
To pick extreme examples: What do you think would happen if you were to eat a days worth of energy, in one meal all from simple sugars? Then would do you think would happen if you were to consume that same daily quantity in equal doses at 30 min intervals over the course of the day?
Secondly, you can have the same caloric intake for years with the same expenditure for years (maintaining weight) then hit your 40-50 year range and find this is no longer works due to your metabolism slowing down.
There are *many* factors that go into keeping/maintaining/losing/gaining weight and simple spewing "keep your caloric intake/output even" isn't going to cut it.
