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[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I haven’t yet watched it either, but I’ll take a punt. It’s very hard to apply the first law to bodies, because we ingest, burn, store, and excrete in very complicated ways. It’s not as simple as calories in vs calories burned.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

In the end, it is though. Over time, If you create a calorie deficit, you lose weight and if you create a surplus, you gain weight.

However, how much you lose or gain depends on a lot of factors. And most importantly, when we lose weight, we are fighting millions of years of evolution to not eat. So the diet fatigue is real.

But if you take your current weight, measure your daily calorie intake for a week or two and then slightly reduce your daily calories below that intake, you will lose weight.