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Originally Posted by Esoteric
If 2500 calories is your TDEE - consume less calories to lose weight, consume more to gain weight.
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But it's not that simple. Unless you want to claim that everyone that went an entire year without gaining or losing weight meticulously tracked all their calories all year so that their total calories for 1 year was less than 3500 off of their requirement?
There's been studies where they get people to overeat on purpose and monitor weight gain. Just giving an extra 1000 calories per day to people, there was a variation of 4 times in the amount of weight gain. So for some 1000 extra calories was like
4000 extra calories for others.