No, it doesn't just come down to calories.
You saying I'm not an automatic expert and making unsubstantiated claims of your own won't change this.
Maybe if you actually were concerned about helping other people you wouldn't have such a myopic view of how the body, or for that matter apetite, actually works.
Atkins doesn't work just based on calorie reduction. It works because people feel satiated, because they are getting more of the crap they normally crave - especially in terms of fat.
Look at your paragraph, and its girth, BMA. Whether you are trying to come off as confrontation or not, you're out of control. I think you are posting primarily in order to try and control others, fwiw, whatever your 2 cent denials.
I am only posting because I know what I have discovered will work for others who had the same problem I did.
Basically, the way Joe Riggs got to his size is the same as me. Clean eating, carbs early in the form of fruit instead of late in the form of starches & processed foods, and a reduction in animal proteins will in the long run produce a sustainable diet that people can live with, and train with, without having "relapses" if part of their goal is to lose weight.
Anybody can lose weight, short term. The problem is how to lose it in a way where the diet is sustainable long term, and both feels and is good for the body.
Take my input or leave it, but if you are a dick about it, at least have the guts to do it with a dick's resolve, instead of with ridiculous dickhead run on paragraphs and passive-aggressive denials.