[driverdan]

In other words you eliminated a significant portion of your daily calories, resulting in a net loss of calories per day.

Had you been overeating something other than sugar (eg fried food) and eliminated that instead the outcome would have been the same.

[freyr]

Your comment directly contradicts everything claimed in the article. Specifically, it makes the case that all calories are not created equal, and sugar in particular heavily impacts metabolism and fat accumulation.

Whether this is true is up for debate, but you haven't brought any evidence to the table.