Haha here goes the thread derailment. And I'm about to get back to work so I won't be getting back.
Let me preface this by saying I HATE the term "weight loss". Yes, you can "lose weight" by putting yourself in caloric deficit (calories in < calories out). You can also "lose weight" by taking diuretics or putting yourself in a sauna and sweating out water weight.
But first off, none of these are sustainable, second, they are not healthy in the long-term, and third, they are NOT ATTRACTIVE.
Caloric deficits via eating processed shit and sugar = people who are "SKINNY FAT". The most unattractive kind of person if you ask me.
Yeah, that one professor lost all sorts of weight eating nothing but donuts... but he also fried his liver and catabolized his muscle tissue in the process. Most women would not be attracted to his body over a guy who was "muscular fat". Of course, we'd like to be neither of these.....
While calories should be part of the equation to keep you in check, it's not everything. Bodyfat percentage / the mirror are more important, and simply dropping calories is not how you look good, especially if you're doing so with a slim fast style diet that's loaded with nothing but sugar.
Also, a calorie is not just a calorie. Hell, a carb is not just even a carb! Your body handles different compounds with different biochemical processes.
Go ahead and eat straight fructose all day long and tell me how your liver's doing in a year. It will be shot compared to the guy who gets his "calories" from whole foods
