>Calorie deficit works, but the ability for an average person to maintain a calorie deficit without external help is close to 0%
I don't agree with 0% figure at all.
Why? because we are able to offer Guaranteed results AT NO COST (no ads, no subscription, no payment of any kind) within 2-3 weeks for both Weight Loss and Weight Gain, many people start seeing results from the very first week; you can read reviews if you doubt this.
The market is filled with "Eat X for weight loss, eat Y for weight gain."
The average person actually does not choose the right strategy for weight loss, which is a "calorie deficit."
But implementing it is not "EASY" until you understand how expenditure, calorie intake, and weight movement work, which is too much work to understand for an average Joe.
OKAY, the vast majority of people on Hacker News can probably wrap their heads around these concepts if they find the right resource, but the average Joe can't.
Let's take something as simple as "calorie deficit."
Being at a calorie deficit itself requires knowing two things:
1. How much you burn in a day (total daily energy expenditure or TDEE)
2. How much your intake is for the day
Deficit = TDEE - Intake
You can do calorie counting for #2. But what can you do for #1?
The average guy does not know how to calculate these properly, let alone judge weight movement, which can move a lot in the opposite direction due to water weight fluctuations that can exceed 1 kg+ of movement a day.
Have you seen the math required for figuring out "Maintenance Calories?, see this: https://macrocodex.app/knowledge/rethink/adaptive-tdee/
And all the factors that go into this? see this: https://macrocodex.app/knowledge/macrocodex/smart-calorie-bu...
We've 17,000+ users why? because #1 is a difficult problem for many.
Our solution is Macrocodex, which comes at no cost to the user and is very easy to use.
>Just about every study ever done on diet and exercise shows this.
Those studies already set people up for failure to begin with; I wrote about it here:
https://macrocodex.app/knowledge/rethink/weight-loss-studies...
I don't agree with 0% figure at all.
Why? because we are able to offer Guaranteed results AT NO COST (no ads, no subscription, no payment of any kind) within 2-3 weeks for both Weight Loss and Weight Gain, many people start seeing results from the very first week; you can read reviews if you doubt this.
The market is filled with "Eat X for weight loss, eat Y for weight gain."
The average person actually does not choose the right strategy for weight loss, which is a "calorie deficit."
But implementing it is not "EASY" until you understand how expenditure, calorie intake, and weight movement work, which is too much work to understand for an average Joe.
OKAY, the vast majority of people on Hacker News can probably wrap their heads around these concepts if they find the right resource, but the average Joe can't.
Let's take something as simple as "calorie deficit."
Being at a calorie deficit itself requires knowing two things:
1. How much you burn in a day (total daily energy expenditure or TDEE)
2. How much your intake is for the day
Deficit = TDEE - Intake
You can do calorie counting for #2. But what can you do for #1?
The average guy does not know how to calculate these properly, let alone judge weight movement, which can move a lot in the opposite direction due to water weight fluctuations that can exceed 1 kg+ of movement a day.
Have you seen the math required for figuring out "Maintenance Calories?, see this: https://macrocodex.app/knowledge/rethink/adaptive-tdee/
And all the factors that go into this? see this: https://macrocodex.app/knowledge/macrocodex/smart-calorie-bu...
We've 17,000+ users why? because #1 is a difficult problem for many.
Our solution is Macrocodex, which comes at no cost to the user and is very easy to use.
>Just about every study ever done on diet and exercise shows this.
Those studies already set people up for failure to begin with; I wrote about it here: https://macrocodex.app/knowledge/rethink/weight-loss-studies...