It's comical. Every time Taubes comes out with something new, somehow folks with magic metabolisms come out of the woodwork as well. You know the type. They could not lose weight eating a starvation diet of 1000 cal/day for weeks on end doing hours of cardio a week. Some even claim to gain weight on such regimes! Worse yet they were hungry all the time. But then they read GCBC and went low carb and stopped exercising! Suddenly, they were never hungry, but managed to wolf down 2000 cal/day of fat and protein and lost 20,30,100 or more pounds effortlessly in a week/month/whatever unbelievably short timeframe.
This is utter nonsense. Even Taubes acknowledges ultimately that if someone gains fat mass they are in caloric surplus and if someone loses fat mass they are in caloric deficit. He just claims that you are eating more because your fat cells have gone rogue and hog your energy, and if you're losing weight, you are eating less because the fat cells are releasing their stores so you don't need to eat. Whatever.
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