Thanks for replying.

So why are you still of the opinion that losing weight is just a matter of energy balance? Are you familiar with other studies which have shown this claim to be correct?

As you can probably tell, I'm a low carber myself, but I'm genuinely curious to understand how did the "energy balance" consensus opinion form. It seems that currently, both opinions aren't rooted in scientific studies. BTW, there's an initiative called nusi.org that attempts to solve this once and for all (by proving low carb diets are right and everyone else is wrong, of course :-)