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LOL and food still tastes good, ain’t it the truth! The bane of all mankind!

I just figured out that a 25 pound weight gain (I'm talking about a 25lb load of fat in the adipose tissue, not 25 pounds of adipose tissue) over a period of 10 years comes out to about 200 kcals/week. An apple is about 80 kcals. Think of how tightly regulated energy input versus energy expenditure is that it is such a small percentage of total weekly input that insensibly leads to what was a typical weight creep over a period of decades. For someone with an 1800 kcal/day, 200 kcals per week is an excess of only about 1.59%! When you consider how much inexpensive, highly nutritious food is so easily available and how we nowadays expend so little energy compared to the average person 100 years ago, it's a wonder that more people aren't horribly obese and a tribute to spontaneous energy regulation by the body.