[JumpCrisscross]

> secret is simple: Eat food, real food

This is modern voodoo.

I’ve eaten terrifically and exercised regularly. I’ve also been a slob and ordered Uber Eats from bed for a week. I don’t gain much weight either way. When I have, I can lose it within a week. (My figure changes. But not enough that clothes don’t fit.)

This isn’t because I follow some magic (ex post facto obvious in some way) diet. It’s my biology. Other people have different biologies that will save calories irrespective of the source and use; their basal metabolism adjusts to ensure they’re burning less than they eat, all the way to starvation.

In a calorie-deficit environment, or one stricken by plague that disease out digestion while the immune system goes full blast, I die first. In a calorie-rich and vaccinated world, they do. (Even then, mortality is higher amid low BMIs than moderate ones, largely due to disease outcomes.)

[jghn]

Indeed. Around the time that Supersize Me came out I was looking to lose some weight. To prove a point to my friends I did this by going on a fast food diet. Unlike Spurlock, I actually tracked my calorie intake and this affected what I ordered. However, every meal came from one of McDs, BK, or Wendy's as there was one of each in my neighborhood.

I did indeed lose the belly fat I wanted to shed.

I'm sure it wasn't the healthiest thing I ever did, but from the perspective of fat loss it worked AOK

[thefz]

> t’s my biology. Other people have different biologies that will save calories irrespective of the source and use

There is zero scientific evidence about this.