Quote Originally Posted by Strike For The South View Post
This is just flat wrong. I've seen guys drop and gain hundredes of pounds before by counting calories, it's what stregnth sports are based on.

Now Idaho made a good point about macronutrients but Calories are still the most important thing.

A 500 calorie meal is a 500 calorie meal, eat only that and you will lose weight no matter what it is.
You are making a massive assumption which is distorting your understanding.

Just because you eat a meal with a calorific value of 500 - doesn't mean your body will absorb, or do the same thing with those calories.

Firstly, your body absorbs different food at different rates. What is shit made of? Fat and fibre. You don't get fat from eating fat. You shit most of it out.

Secondly, your body adjusts to it's diet. Put your body on reduced calories and it will start conserving energy.

Therefore the concept of a 500 calorie meal is nonsense. 500 calories of sugar will be rapidly absorbed by your body. 500 calories of nuts will not be.