While caloric intake determines weight gain or loss, the processing of food changes physiology to alter how much one eats, thereby affecting caloric balance.

“yes that is true but what you do to that food changes your physiology such that it changes how much you eat when you eat all those other things that are then gonna alter your caloric are gonna click alter your caloric balance and that all happens because of the state of the food food and then the the hormones that are released because of it”