Pound of potatoes is 350 calories so to even get to 1,000 calories (with the egg) you have to eat a tick under 3 pounds. Assuming you pig out and have five pounds of potatoes we're still only talking about 1700 calories most people will lose weight on that. There's a reason this shit works

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5146251&forum_id=2...id#44792866)

Also many people who need to lose a significant amount of weight tend to be sensitive to carbs so a carb heavy diet like this probably wouldn’t do much for them.

If you’re going to do something like that it would be far superior to due a low carb diet and focus on fatty animal meat, eggs, etc. as that is more satiating and nutritious. Your calories would be low but your nutrition would be much higher.

Of course it’s much more expensive than eating only potatoes like a peasant though.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5146251&forum_id=2...id#44792914)

But all of this is somewhat beside the point. The point is people who say they "can't" lose weight or "can't afford to lose weight" are flaming, they are choosing not to, because literally anybody could do the potato diet and most could also do the diet you describe.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5146251&forum_id=2...id#44793148)

How is that convenient? How can I just get a potato through a drive thru?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5146251&forum_id=2...id#44792894)

No sugar, no seed oils or other added fat, no alcohol, no refined carbs, focus on lean protein and non-starchy vegetables.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5146251&forum_id=2...id#49073967)

It made me realize that your body does not absorb all of the food that you eat. If you were to eat 1000 K of corn what amount woukd pass through you undigested and unabsorved? It's patently obvious that calories in cannot be measured so carefully.

I can rant about this for ever. There's no way your body is absorbing 10,000 calories from a while cheesecake. It's going to let some of that shit pass straight thru to the toilet.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5146251&forum_id=2...id#44794910)

That’s literally it.

If people just ate whole food they wouldn’t be obese.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5146251&forum_id=2...id#44792883)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5146251&forum_id=2...id#44792911)

your stomach would explode if it attempted to hold 100 cups of ANYTHING

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5146251&forum_id=2...id#44793897)

Then I had a steak, 2 ears of corn on the cob, and potato salad for supper.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5146251&forum_id=2...id#44792965)

Now I’m onboard with the idea that there may be environmental factors which make it harder for some people to diet.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5146251&forum_id=2...id#44793154)

if you put 100 calories of chocolate in a balloon and swallowed it, you'd shit out 100 calories of chocolate in a balloon even though you ate 100 calories

if you eat a whole box of Oreos in one sitting, you will shit out most of those calories instead of metabolizing them

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5146251&forum_id=2...id#44793913)

Microplastics, processed sysco slop, mutated monsanto trash, etc. That shit all fucks with hormones and lowers metabolism. So effectively calories out goes down. Also could make you more likely to binge eat/overeat because you aren't satiated. So calories in goes up.

Depending on what you eat and how you exercise calories can go to or come from muscle, and go to or come from fat. Typically your body will burn fat and glycogen up to a certain point and then start to break down muscle. It's usually not a concern unless you are doing heavy cardio, but it might be with all of our jacked up hormones these days.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5146251&forum_id=2...id#44793184)

You eat too much food because you lack self control. That’s why you’re fat.

Burning muscle is a meme unless you’re a competition bodybuilder. But don’t forget to consoom your BCAAs.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5146251&forum_id=2...id#44794085)

you aren't wrong about some of the stuff you said you are just retarded at interpreting other peoples' positions.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5146251&forum_id=2...id#44794551)

Just because you're putting in 5,000 calories doesn't necessarily mean your body is aborbing 5,000 calories. I'm just making shit up, but it sure seems to me that if you ate like 5,000 calories in one meal, your body is not going to take in those calories the same way they would if it was 5,000 over the course of the day.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5146251&forum_id=2...id#44794380)

a slice of pizza might be 400 calories worth when hot but your body could absorb only half that if it’s cold

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5146251&forum_id=2...id#44794430)

CICOhomos, care to explain???

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5146251&forum_id=2...id#44794486)

This thread is pretty good evidence why most lawyers are overweight and unhealthy. Way more people than you think are defending CICO for some reason.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5146251&forum_id=2...id#44794892)

A percentage of all calories is burned in the storage/use process, this is known as the thermic effect of food.

But there's no limiter on how many calories can be stored within a period of time other than capacity of your gut

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5146251&forum_id=2...id#44794929)

It's not a nutritional be all end all (although fasting and low calorie diets are pretty overpowered in terms of health outcomes). But like 80% of Americans could improve their health outcomes if they'd just reduce their calorie intake meaningfully below their expenditure

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5146251&forum_id=2...id#44794645)

Of course as a general rule it can help people lose weight but the real culprit is the type of food people are eating that is damaging their bodies, disrupting their hormones and metabolic processes, etc.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5146251&forum_id=2...id#44794883)

If someone has a caloric deficit, then they will lose weight, whether their calories come from snickers bars or steaks or a balanced diet. Losing weight has a whole host of positive health associations, probably play least partially because excess fat increases cellular senescence

This doesn't mean that a snickers bar diet has much to recommend to it compared to normal diet. But it does mean that you can lose weight on such a diet, and will experience certain positive health effects from that weight loss (and if one has a really big caloric deficit, one might even experience some of the benefits of intermittent fasting incidentally)

Improved health outcomes for a huge percentage of (fat) people is actually really fucking simple: eat less than you burn. Also eat some variety so you don't get weird nutritional issues. No need to overcomplicate shit

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5146251&forum_id=2...id#44795116)

1. does not eat a large caloric excess every day (2500+ calories at a minimum)

2. eats primarily whole and unprocessed foods in reasonable quantities

3. routinely engages in physical activity

if you force anyone to do those threes things, they will cease to obese. all fats overeat and they eat garbage. over time, they just grow fatter unless they change their habits. it's just that easy.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5146251&forum_id=2...id#44795056)

Fats love to scream and yell that sensible, normal eating is some kind of unachievable nightmare regimen that no mentally normal person can maintain. The truth is the fats have a mental disorder that prevents them from making a few simple lifestyle changes because they are addicted to eating and lack the simple discipline to move around for an hour every day.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5146251&forum_id=2...id#44795418)

We just don't buy sweets or packaged foods (except for cold cuts/bacon), I work on my property basically everyday (today I bought and moved 7000lbs of hay into my barn).

I think the trick is to find a physical hobby and never let any junk food enter your home. Make a rule that any desert needs to be fully homemade (e.g. we sometimes have homemade brownies).

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5146251&forum_id=2...id#44795629)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5146251&forum_id=2...id#44795652)

but the paper link I think is dead

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5146251&forum_id=2...id#44795719)

Calories are a measure of heat energy in a closed system. The body is an open system that uses chemical energy. Calories as measured by a bomb calorimeter are completely irrelevant.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5146251&forum_id=2...id#44797264)