I think Taubes goes into this quite a bit in his book about how calories in
are only part of the equation.  Calorie composition seems more important.
Paula H.

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Let's do the math.  Weight maintenance for me is about 2400 cals/day per the
Mayo clinic's online calculator given my age, height, weight, and activity
level.  And I'm told a pound of weight equals 3500 calories.  I am averaging
1800 calories per day right now.  Mathematically there is simply no way I
can be dropping 3.6 pounds a week or half a pound a day.  Half a pound a day
would be a 1750 calorie deficit, meaning of course that I'd have to be only
consuming about 650 calories per day.

Something else is going on here as, again, I'm averaging about 1800 calories
per day.  Hmmmm.

Jim Swayze
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