Cutting Calories Doesn’t Work – It’s simple Algebra

Write 1000 words and add html headings article based on this youtube script hi today I’m going to talk about why calorie counting and cutting calories doesn’t work has never worked and will never work and it really comes down to simple algebra and we’re not breaking any laws of thermodynamics here stick around and we’ll talk more [Music] about let’s start with the energy balance equation which is that body fat equals calories in minus calories out because body fat is just a store of food energy or calories so if you’re eating calories and you’re burning calories well if calories in is greater than the amount of calories out then you’re going to store some of that as body fat this is a balanced equation so there’s never a caloric deficit there are three variables here body fat calories in and calories out and they must all balance together so if we simply look at it as a mathematical equation you can rewrite this and say that increased in body fat is equal to calories in greater than calories out so because these two things are equal just like if you were to write 3 + 4al 7 anywhere you see seven you could put 3 + 4 and anywhere you see 3 + 4 you could put seven because they’re equivalent quantities so So when you say that increased body weight equals calories in minus calories out anywhere you see one you can replace it with the other so here’s the problem when people start to then ask the question what causes increased body weight or obesity what causes it lots of people will say well calories in greater than calories out causes increased weight gain but that’s not true they’re actually the same thing one did not cause the other let’s look at it from a mathematical standpoint if you say calories in greater than calories out led to increased body fat let’s replace the calories in greater than calories out with increased body fat because they’re equivalent quantities which means that you’re basically saying that increased body fat is caused by increased body fat logically this is completely nonsensical they’re not one did not cause the other in English