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"If one gets the sugar (both obvious and hidden) out of the diet, one will lose weight."

Here's the thing I've never understood (been the same weight for 40 years with never "dieting").

Is it true or untrue if you take in fewer calories than you expend you will lose weight?

If you take in more calories than you expend you will gain weight?

I can understand the theory of blood sugar but at the end of the day if incoming = outgoing does it make any difference?

I'm not arguing mind you, I don't know the answer, but it just seems like an immutable law that if you burn more than you take in you'll burn stored calories (fat).

For instance if I eat 6,000 calories of meat but I only expend 3,000 calories I wouldn't gain weight?

When you were younger, did it take more calories to put on pounds?

Clearly, how it is burned, under what conditions, have a lot to do with gaining weight. If youth is a factor, why not other things? It is a fact--you can eat more calories on this diet than other diets and lose weight more easily than on other diets.

A little butter on your broccoli will sure tame an appetite.

Good question, Proud_texan. Another related one is "what percent of what foods do you actually absorb when you eat them?" Is it possible to consume 5000 calories/day, burn 3000/day but not gain weight because you are simply not absorbing the other 2000?