re: Study of Biggest Losers finds that the body wants and will fight to be Fat

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Just for due diligence, are there ANY other internal variables that determine outcome...save cal in/out?

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well in the end this is all about finding calories out. No one person is going to burn the same amount of calories even all other variables being the same. Thats why I was saying to find your TDEE and do 20% less calories. If you haven't loss any weight and were very strict to the calories well you have to adjust down.

Absolutely there are variables but you can account for them. In the end its all about cals.

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Not an excuse, just is it reality that (all else being equal age,sex,height) certain people naturally burn 400-800 less calories/day than a peer, and furthermore they retain a higher % of calories that they consume?

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yes this is reality to a certain extent(you worded it weird. Some people will burn off more of those calories because some people are less efficient at using them. its just the nature of our genetics but it can be changed over time.

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Also, why do you not need to count calories under Keto..and people say to smother everything in cheese and crap like that....why does cal in/out not apply when there's no carbs?

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Its not that calories don't matter they absolutely do. But for many its hard to get to the amount of calories you need and the amount of fat you should intake without doing things like that. Its hard to eat a lot of cals from protein and fat for most. Carbs....its easy to do. Most people are looking to get 60 to 65% of their cals from fat so they figure out ways to do that. For many this means adding cheese to meats or butter on meats etc.

But overall calories still matter.