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Originally Posted by Average_Joe
Seaver, you make it sound much easier than it actually is. It's not always the number of calories in vs. calories burned. It also depends on the kinds of calories you take in. For example, I went on the Atkins diet for 2 months back in January, and I lost 20 pounds without changing my exercise routines. The rules for Atkins is basically to eat as few carbohydrates as possible. However, a person can eat as much fat and protein as they wish. My weight didn't drop due to my decrease in calorie intake, but due to a process that my body went through called ketosis, which I won't try to explain in this post.
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Ok what you're pointing out are foods that change the way you're body deals with the calories. In the end though, while some changes may make it easier or harder, bottom line is... A calorie is a calorie is a calorie. There are NOT differant kinds. A calorie is simply a measure of energy.
It's the other stuff in the foods you're eating that make it harder or easier for you're body to extract those calories, and what you're body does with them. Some thing perhaps, your body will just excreet rather than store, carb convert to useable energy easily, so they get stored first, etc etc.
So no, it's not so simple as that, however, bottom line... If you burn more than you intake, it WILL trigger your body to start using the energy stored in fat. Fats just take more work to make into useable energy, so if there is any possible way for your body to get "easy" energy (AKA Carbs) it will.