YEP....what you said. Dr. Mercola had a great email today on a woman doing research on the 3500 calorie deficit to lose a pound MYTH. Basically says what YOU said.
Same here with our kids. In fact, they all had avavados with dinner tonight. Oh the fat calories, lol! I’m currently using Gerson therapy for a cancer diagnosis and eating more calories than Big Gov’s USDA says I should and I’m losing weight. The weight loss isn’t from the cancer, since Praise God the tumor died and we haven’t found any mets yet, so it’s got to be quality vs. quantity. High quality, low carb whole foods. Pray for me, please! I had my second CT scan yesterday and we are praying for no cancer! God bless!
Mercola is a crackpot.
http://www.quackwatch.org/11Ind/mercola.html
3500 calories to a pound is not a myth. it’s a mostly accurate scientific rule of thumb.
weight loss and weight gain is all about calories. nutrition is about the content of the food. they are not the same thing. obesity is a calorie issue. whether you drink juice or eat gummy bears or subsist on a diet of celery and radishes... all that matters for weight loss is that your daily “calories in” is less than your “calories out” on average over a period of time. this is a fundamental law of physics. the Law of Conservation of Energy and it’s corollary, the Law of Conservation of Mass.