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>>17644619
I’m about 30kg overweight according to bmi. I eat less calories than my coworkers at work. I see what they get in the cafeteria from pop to desert everyday and sugary snacks in the middle of work everyday. We have a physically demanding job. Yet some people are fat and others are skinny.
I know intimately people who are seriously obese and they eat way less than I do.

So my anecdotal evidence and specialists like Lustig say that post is true. Calorie intake and calorie expenditure by themselves do not explain weight gain and weight loss. It’s not the amount of calories it’s the kind of calories. Because a calorie is not a calorie.