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if you ingest more calories than you burn, you'll either maintain or gain weight. Typically, you'll gain weight, although not always. If you ingest about as many calories as you burn, you'll maintain weight, typically. And if you ingest fewer calories than you burn, typically you'll lose weight.
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I was taught that the calories in calories out thermodynamics of energy utilization governs most everything that is if I'm ingesting less caloric energy than I burn then I'm going to lose weight and if I'm ingesting exactly as much as I burn I'll maintain weight and if I ingest more than I burn then I'll gain weight
weight gain and weight loss I think we both would agree is or weight maintenance is going to largely be dictated at this point by not you consume more calories than you burn or not
it's fundamentally about calories and then calories out i mean that's how if you're not burned more than you're eating you are not losing weight period
they have to be a negative energy balance that is there's no way that they can eat the number of calories that they're expending and lose weight so they need to be a negative energy balance and I mean that's just a given