1 August

People don't get fat because they over-eat, they over-eat because they get fat. An obese person is metabolically 'starved', their body keeps storing fat because it thinks it's starving (and the person feels that as hunger). What causes them to get fat is insulin imbalance, caused by eating too many carbohydrates (sugar being the worst), which fires up the insulin response. No amount of counting calories or doing exercise to 'burn off' calories will make you thin, if you don't stop the insulin response. Calories, 'energy balance' (in an out) is nonsense. Have a read, the highlights aren't mine, but it summarises how we have weight and fat completely wrong.