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My experience as a runner has taught me that indeed a calorie is just a calorie. I’ve been everywhere from mostly plant based to mostly meat based to mostly junk food based without significantly impacting body weight through any of those shifts. The real important part is the speed that different foods enable you to consume calories and an awareness of caloric intake in general.

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At one point in time I was road cycling about 12,000 km a year, and can confirm that with a sufficiently aggressive metabolism and daily calorie burn regimen, you can shovel in highly calorie dense foods with no adverse effects. Look at the calories and ingredients in the energy gels and snack bars marketed to the road cycling and endurance runner market segment.

In fact I had to consciously eat many more calories per day, in calorie dense foods, just to not lose weight and become weaker.

Same here. I’ve been ripped eating nothing but jack In the box. But it’s classic HN dissonance, like how “PHP will sink your project” and other silly things like that

It just sounds nice to say “you’re fat because you eat a lot of candy” but when I was In the track team we ate at all you cam eat pizza buffet every weekend

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