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Comment by JumpCrisscross

> Eating less energy than the body burns results in burning of stored energy reserves

Nope [1].

Even proponents of the energy-balance model clarify that “the brain is the primary organ responsible for body weight regulation operating mainly below our conscious awareness via complex endocrine, metabolic, and nervous system signals to control food intake in response to the body’s dynamic energy needs as well as environmental influences” [2].

Calorie in calorie out is the flat-earth model of metabolism, trading truth for simplicity.

[1] https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/stop-counting...

[2] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S000291652...

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