[jdege]

The only thing that matters is net calories. Eat more than you burn, you gain weight. Eat less, you lose.

It couldn't be more simple.

But how much are you eating? More importantly, how much are you burning? You can vaguely estimate the former, you can no more than guess at the latter.

[Neoliberalnot]

“The only thing that matters is net calories. Eat more than you burn, you gain weight. Eat less, you lose.
It couldn’t be more simple.

But how much are you eating? More importantly, how much are you burning? You can vaguely estimate the former, you can no more than guess at the latter.”

Ah, but it matters WHEN said calories are ingested as to how rapidly they are burned. Calories ingested late in the day tend to be deposited as fat at night.