Mathematic and physics are the pinnacle of the sciences, nothing happens in violation of them.
Calories consumed vs calories expended is the basic formula regarding weight gain vs weight loss. There are ZERO exceptions to this simple formula. I don’t give a damn about glandular problems or genetics or any of that crap. Those are real problems certainly but if you consume more calories than you expend, you gain weight. Expend more than you consume you will lose weight.
Truthfully I thought that until I started having some weird symptoms. Further down the road and here is the rub.. 5 days a week I am a lean eater.. so much so that the A1C doesn’t pick up the aging shift of glucose impairment.
I have been testing A1C for decades, when it first came out it was FDA not cleared for diagnosing diabetes or impairment.
However, the lazy docs disregarded that. I had to fight for a real glucose tolerance test because my workday diet hides the truth about my glucose metabolism.
Unfortunately I am also hypothyroid and cannot store glycogen, so I am stuck.
A low carb diet will starve glycogen dependent tissue.
So calories in and out only works in good health. Your lack of care for there is pitiful. Maybe you should join the my way or else gender benders who are also uncaring.
physics yes but mathamatics hasn’t been the same since it was determined that a Y Chromosome and a X chromosome can create more than two genders. not sure exactly how many but I’ve heard at last count there were 54 distinct varieties. unless physics steps in to sort this all out...physics will be next.
Are 1500 calories of ice cream the same as 1500 calories of steak?
Of course not. It’s what your body DOES with those calories that make the difference.
Ice cream will raise the blood sugar and insulin, so the liver will try to get the reading back to normal by converting it to fat and storing it. When insulin is above a (very low) threshold, the body can only burn sugar. No fat can be used for fuel or come out of storage for use as a fuel.
The steak will also raise the blood sugar and insulin, but not nearly as much. And there is a caloric cost to break down and digest the meat, of about 25%. Meat supplies nutrients to build and repair body parts and muscle. At night, when insulin is low, the liver process the fat in the blood into fatty acids and ketones to fuel the body.