[ilammy]

> if you eat more than you burn, you will gain weight

The converse isn't necessarily true: if you eat less than you burn, you might not lose weight but instead your body adjusts how much you burn.

Calories are amount of energy... released as heat when the food is burned. Or rather, the numbers you see on food products is some value derived from food composition. Anyhow, this is no way directly related to how much of resources your particular body will extract from food.

Counting calories has a benefit of making you aware of your habits, but dietology is not as simple as arithmetic.

[xboxnolifes]

> The converse isn't necessarily true: if you eat less than you burn, you might not lose weight but instead your body adjusts how much you burn.

Depends how you read "eat less than you burn" One way you can interpret the quoted section is that you haven't even eaten less than you burn, you're still eating more or equal to, since the amount you burn has gone down.