If you've heard it once, you've probably heard it a thousand times, that ELMM = Eat Less Move More is a failed strategy for weight loss. The rationale is something like one or more of the following:
- A calorie is not a calorie, because two people who eat the same amount won't weigh the same, or gain or lose the same amount of weight
- The 3500 cal/pound fat figure is wrong because with deliberate overfeeding or caloric restriction, people don't gain or lose exactly as this formula would predict
- If you eat less your metabolism will just slow down to compensate
- If you move more deliberately, aka exercise, you'll just move less later in the day and/or be so hungry you'll compensate by eating more.
