army1987 comments on Critiquing Gary Taubes, Final: The Truth About Diets and Weight Loss - Less Wrong

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Comment author: [deleted] 11 January 2014 09:47:08AM 1 point [-]

Then again, if one day you overshoot by 25% and another day you undershoot by 25%, the (first-order) effects cancel out (there are second-order effects, but they are, well, second-order). Unless there's a systematic error, in which case you will notice in a couple of weeks, because you will gain/lose weight at a rate different than you want to gain/lose weight at.