[taneq]

OK, so which goalposts would you like us to aim for here? If you want to be healthy, eat a balanced diet. If you want weight loss, then eat less food than you burn, using a feedback loop to adjust our dietary intake. If you want fitness, do some cardio. If you want strength, lift some weights. If you want all of these things, then do all of these things.

[headsoup]

The goalpost that is in some way meaningful, which adjusting total consumption of 'whatever' for the sake of purely moving a number up or down isn't.