James, i am kinda surprised that you haven’t come out with any weight loss products here yet?
Or is it that you don’t consider yourself an authority yet as you still have 40lbs to go?

John

No; I surely do not agree with your ridiculous claim that if you eat more calories than you burn that you will get fat.

I understand that has been taught, but it is ridiculous on the face of it. It assumes that you will metabolize 100% of calories that you take in… which is a rather bizarre assumption and has been proven wrong many, many times.

There are a ton of other factors at play as well. None of the best working “fad” diets play on the “low calorie” angle. Everyone knows that doesn’t work. In fact, most people have already figured out that you must take in more calories if you wish to lose weight.

Try a simple three day experiment if you are still brainwashed.

1. Eat nothing but fat for one day. Eat exactly ___ grams. Use foods that are almost 100% fat with no protein or carbohydrate content such as oil or cream cheese.

2. Eat nothing but protein for one day. Eat exactly ___ grams (same as the fat grams). Use whey isolate or casein isolate shakes mixed with water to control it at 100% protein with no fat or carbs.

3. Eat nothing but sugar the next day. Eat eaxtly ___ grams (same as the fat and protein days).

Fat has 9 calories per gram. Carbs and protein has 5 calories per gram.

How do you explain your weight loss on the fat day? You had more calories than the other two days.

How do you explain your weight gain on the carb day? You had less calories that day!

How do you explain the weight gain or neutral weight on the protein day? What do you think happened if you actually measure your body fat percentage? How did muscle go up and fat go down? It was the exact same number of calories as the sugar day and less calories than the fat day!

It’s just a very bizarre theory. It’s hard to believe that anyone accepts that the body is so simplistic anymore… especially after having literally millions act on that theory and having it instantly disproven when they diet plan fails because it was based on that theory.

So no… I surely don’t believe that nonsense!

-James D. Brausch

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I agree that the body is a bit more complex than people give credit for.

Whilst you may not get fat by consuming more calories than you burn, you will gain weight. So you can increase your muscle mass and not put on body fat. I just thought the distinction between the 2 deserves merit.

Generally, I agree that low calorie diets are a poor way to get lean, but at the same token I don’t want people to erroneously think that they can stuff there faces and lose weight.

I always tell people to focus on boosting the calories out (increasing metabolic rate) rather than trying to reduce calories. I wrote about it in this article:

I think switching diet plans once in awhile or even weekly though is very sound advice (as long as the food eaten is the healthy variety) - that way your body doesn’t get used to a certain pattern and amount of calories. Alternating the amount calories every other day or a couple days a week can also be a good way to keep your metabolism revved up.

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