Oppo
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To say that calories in vs calories out doesn't matter is some disingenuous ass shit. It's true that a calorie, may not necessarily be a calorie otherwise we wouldn't have plateaus, but there are so many different variables to the human body that you can't possibly expect for fat loss to be so linear.
I think the thread title has some merit, but is ultimately misleading because objectively one does get fat for eating too much and exercising too little. exercising/total daily energy expenditure=calories out foods=calories in. Fat loss does ultimately come down to this, you just can't expect it to be so linear or to be the exact same from person to person.
This is a good post.
Everybody seems to cobble together their own system for eating, and the beliefs they attach to the where's and why's of it, and I'm actually surprised how heated the discussion can get.
For my part, I essentially try to watch my portion intake, in terms of calories, as well as eating things that are as close to their "normal "state as possible. The more processed, the worse it is. Refined sugar is processed. Bread is technically processed as it was rendered from flour, etc. Eat things that are as close as possible to their state when it was growing in the ground, or walking around on top. Sometimes, cook those things, and combine them in various ways. That's it.
Calories are a unit of energy, not specifically food, after all.