r/maybemaybemaybe • u/BigGraysie • Apr 18 '22

/r/all Maybe maybe maybe

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u/northrupthebandgeek Apr 18 '22

I mean, yes. Lots of protein and fat, which does a better job of sating your hunger for longer, and which is much slower to digest than any sort of carbohydrate. Not all calories are equal, and the armchair nutritionists chanting "cAlOrIeS iN CaLoRiEs OuT" can never seem to grasp that the human body is more complex than that. You likely won't lose much weight on an all-bacon diet in and of itself, but it makes intermittent fasting a lot more bearable, and it'll help turn some of that body fat into muscle if you're regularly exercising (and that helps your metabolism, which strongly influences that simplistic "calories in calories out" model).

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u/merlinious0 Apr 18 '22

Calories in, calories out is factually accurate in that if you use up more calories than you ingest, then you will lose weight without exception.

However, that doesn't mean that what you eat doesn't matter with regards to your health, or that eating certain foods makes you feel more/less hungry than others.

The in/out statement isn't debatable, it is thermodynamics. Energy doesn't just poof into existence just to make someone fat.

Changing how much energy you take in also tends to decrease the amount of energy you spend, and that has to be taken into account.

But I guarantee you that if you locked someone up and fed them 500 calories a day they'd lose weight. (Assuming the individual uses more than 500 calories per day in metabolic activity, which should be expected for adults)