Noone would argue that energy in = energy out is false. The problem is it's not an explanation. All you're doing is stating a fact.
What's important to here is that the composition of diet is going to affect those two numbers. Isocaloric diets (same energy in) with different composition will result in different changes in body composition, because they will have effects on energy out. (add: Even this is horribly oversimplified. Even diets with the same energy in AND out will have different results, because they affect which form of stored energy in the body that energy out number comes from)
No matter how much sheer force of will you put into wanting to burn calories, the amount of energy you have available to spend is mediated by processes that behave very differently depending on the type of food consumed.
I only stated this because the comment was implying what seems to be that by eliminating a specific type of food they were able to lose 30 pounds and feel great. I was trying to point out that they could have not completely eliminated this food, but kept track of their calories consumed and caloric expenditure and not make it sound like they should be blaming this specific food for their weight gain (in this case sugar). Unless of course they have some sort of health issue related.
Actually I was implying that by eliminating 100% refined sugars from your diet, that also immediately rules out a lot of other food that is not very good for you.
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Noone would argue that energy in = energy out is false. The problem is it's not an explanation. All you're doing is stating a fact.
What's important to here is that the composition of diet is going to affect those two numbers. Isocaloric diets (same energy in) with different composition will result in different changes in body composition, because they will have effects on energy out. (add: Even this is horribly oversimplified. Even diets with the same energy in AND out will have different results, because they affect which form of stored energy in the body that energy out number comes from)
No matter how much sheer force of will you put into wanting to burn calories, the amount of energy you have available to spend is mediated by processes that behave very differently depending on the type of food consumed.
I only stated this because the comment was implying what seems to be that by eliminating a specific type of food they were able to lose 30 pounds and feel great. I was trying to point out that they could have not completely eliminated this food, but kept track of their calories consumed and caloric expenditure and not make it sound like they should be blaming this specific food for their weight gain (in this case sugar). Unless of course they have some sort of health issue related.
Actually I was implying that by eliminating 100% refined sugars from your diet, that also immediately rules out a lot of other food that is not very good for you.