Peter Attia· MD
but people who lose like 10% of their body weight they've seen up to a 500 calorie reduction in neat so that's a big portion of it and then obviously you have your purposeful exercise so if we look at energy out or energy in metabolizable energy energy out BMR TEF neat and exercise I'm simplifying this equation a little bit but that's essentially it um so when people if people want to invalidate energy balance what I always say is listen you ate those carbons something must happen to them you you cannot just they don't flutter off into Oblivion and you don't create them out of nothing right something has to happen to them and we have a lot of metabolic Tracer studies to pretty much know what happens to them I think the confusion becomes well I tracked my my calories I ate in a 500 calorie deficit and I didn't lose weight first off if we look at where these mistakes come in people weigh themselves sporadically and if you only weighed yourself once a week I would say it's virtually meaningless um when we are trying to get data on people we're very regimented with how we do it so it's you