I thought that to most LW'ers the weak version of "Calories in, Calories out" was uncontroversial.
EY likes to say that "mass in, mass out" works even better for predicting changes in weight.
Yeah, I feel about this similarly.
The motte of "calories in, calories out" is a purely descriptive post-facto theory. If you lost weight, it means that your organism somehow spent more calories than it gained, and if you gained weight, it means that your organism somehow spent less calories than it gained, but the details about the calorie flows are completely unspecified.
The bailey of "calories in, calories out" is: "You complain about not losing weight? Just eat less and exercise more, dummy! You say you already tried that, but i...
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