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Chapter 2: Secrets of How the Body Really WorksChapter 2: Secrets of How the Body Really Works
If you consume 2200 calories worth of food and drinks that day, you will have 0
net calories, meaning no weight gain or weight loss.
By contrast, if you consume 2500 calories worth of food and drinks that day, you
have +300 net calories, which will be stored by your body for future use (probably
as fat.)
Or, if you instead consume only 1700 calories worth of food and drinks that day,
you will have -600 net calories, which means your body must burn 600 stored
calories (probably as some combination of muscle and fat).
Each pound of fat in the body stores about 3500 calories worth of energy, and
each pound of muscle in the body stores about 600 calories worth of energy. So
if your body burns 2200 calories per day, and you only consume 1700, then over
the course of a week you will run a calorie deficit of 4200 calories, which is
approximately one pound worth of fat calories and one pound worth of muscle
calories. Assuming for the moment that the body burns fat and muscle equally,
you would lose two pounds during this week. (The exact way that the body
balances how much fat and muscle it burns to make up a calorie deficit is
critically important and will be explored below in more detail.)
Most diets and weight reduction programs apply this standard model and use
calorie deprivation diets and increased exercise to increase the calorie debt you
run each day, causing the body to burn up its stores of fat and muscle to lose
weight.
Of course, it is true that you must be burning more energy than you are taking in
through food and drinks in order to get the body to burn fat and lose weight.
However, there are many factors described below that make real-life weight loss
more complicated than the standard model presumes.
The Limits of the Standard Model of Calorie Counting 
While there is truth underlying the standard model of counting calories, the
details of how things actually work inside your body are a lot more complicated!
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