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No, if you eat more calories from fat and protein than you burn, you will absolutely gain weight. You can eliminate carbs from your diet, or significantly reduce them, and still get fat. It's all about energy in vs. energy out. Again, total calories is what's important, not the source of those calories.

No. Tell that to the German army at Stalingrad. I am a betting man. How much would you like to bet. You will not gain a pound if you only eat fat and protein. You have to maintain 100% carb discipline for two weeks. I promise you if you eat anything above 2500 calories a day on this diet you won't gain weight. How much money do you want to donate to FR to prove this bet.

Remember no carbs (you can have 20 grams a day) and in two weeks if you gain any weight on a diet of 2500 fat and protein calories a day I will make another donation to this freepathon. If you don't and especially if you begin to lose weight then you will donate. Now how much do you want to put on the table?

I will give you a couple of hints. The first is you will begin to lose your food cravings. You will not feel hungry. The second is you will have a difficult time after a week eating more than 2000 calories a day. Finally, your triglyceride levels will plummet almost immediately. That means your body will turn to fat burning.

Do we have a deal for the greater good of FreeRepublic?

You will not gain a pound if you only eat fat and protein

If you consume more energy than you burn you will gain weight. The source of that energy isn't nearly as important as the total calories. Demonizing one macronutrient over another may be an effective means for selling diet advice, but it offers little of importance beyond that. Telling people that controlling your weight is simply a matter of energy in vs. energy used isn't the kind of information people are willing to pay for. That's unfortunate.

I can lose weight on a high carbohydrate too as long as I burn more calories than I consume. Michael Phelps eats 12,000 calories a day when he's in training and admits that he's a carbohydrate junkie. He's pretty cut for a guy who loves his carbs.

Remember no carbs (you can have 20 grams a day) and in two weeks if you gain any weight on a diet of 2500 fat and protein calories a day[...] I will give you a couple of hints. The first is you will begin to lose your food cravings. You will not feel hungry. The second is you will have a difficult time after a week eating more than 2000 calories a day. Finally, your triglyceride levels will plummet almost immediately. That means your body will turn to fat burning.

Absolutely. My 20-carb diet (which took me, a petite 5'3" woman from 150 to 125 in five months - THANKFULLY) was as high as I wanted it to be in calories. But I didn't feel hungry. No cravings. What glorious freedom - to enjoy food at meals and not feel hungry! My stomach would actually growl, and I'd think - "oh, it must be hungry," but I was fine with that.

I had been a horrible 150 for three years no matter what I tried.

If I had hours a day to work out, I might lose the effects from carbs. But I'm not a professional athlete, and I don't have the luxury of time - I have children. That said, a few minutes of exercise a day is incredibly important, of course.

"It turns out that a long-used rule of weight loss — reduce 3,500 calories (or burn an extra 3,500) to lose one pound of body fat — is incorrect and can ultimately doom determined dieters."

That said, I am not in favor of the government prescribing any diet advice. That is a dreadful course that we've been on since George McGovern went on the Pritkin diet and decided it would be good for everyone to stuff themselves with bread and feel guilty about fats. He's a mass murderer.