“Ask any person trying to gain weight...does eating more add weight? So how can the opposite be true either?”
If you are eating correctly, ie high fat, moderate protein, low carb (non-starchy), you will put on or lose or maintain weight as necessary. It’s about healthy eating.
It’s not specifically a weight loss or weight gain diet. It’s diet in the true sense of the word - a way of eating/life.
“If you are eating correctly, ie high fat, moderate protein, low carb (non-starchy), you will put on or lose or maintain weight as necessary. It’s about healthy eating.”
That is the fallacy which is making hundreds of millions of people sick with metabolic syndrome and diabetes around the world. When a person develops metabolic syndrome, no matter how few calories the person eats and how much the person exercises, the body acts as though it is in starvation mode and does everything it can possibly do to retain all existing fat and convert as many calories possible from the nutritional fat, carbohydrates, and proteins into fat stored in the adipose tissues. When the intake of calories become insufficient, the body will dissolve the proteins in the muscles of the arms, legs, buttocks, heart, and elsewhere; convert those proteins into glucose in the bloodstream, and then burn a minimal fraction of the protein derived glucose as fuel while storing as much as possible into the adipose tissues with the large stores of fat already there. As the disease progresses on a low calorie diet which would cause dramatic weight loss in a person with a normal metabolism, exercise exacerbates the demand for calories and speeds the dissolution of the muscles needed to exercise and burn calories; and the proteins from the muscles that have been converted into glucose end up being converted in part to fats that make the person’s adipose tissues, abdomen or hips, swell ever more larger with obese fat. Eventually the ability to compensate for this metabolic disorder fails and the person dies without the ability to change the spiraling progression of the metabolic disorder. Until and unless a change in nutrition lowers insulin to normal levels and thereby breaks the progressive cycle by enabling the ability of the body to unlock the stores of fat in the adipose tissues, dietary restrictions of caloric intake and exercise are incapable of stopping the eventual weight gains and death.
Note, I am going to provisionally withdraw a comment I made earlier in the light of some previously unseen information. I wrote:
When the intake of calories become insufficient, the body will dissolve the proteins in the muscles of the arms, legs, buttocks, heart, and elsewhere; convert those proteins into glucose in the bloodstream, and then burn a minimal fraction of the protein derived glucose as fuel while storing as much as possible into the adipose tissues with the large stores of fat already there.
I now have a conflicting source which claims muscles and protein are conserved during starvation. I don’t know which of these conflicting sources is accurate, so I’m withdrawing the comments about the muscles and protein until this conflict in sources becomes resolved.