The things you linked are completely irrelevant. First link: The calorie counts of food are wrong? Sure. Absolutely. No shock there. Treat them as rough estimates.
Second link: different people are different? Whoa. Wow. Oh man, mind blown.
What you naively describe as "not true", the universe itself would describe as bedrock reality.
Despite the bad scientism (i.e. coping) everyone hides behind, nothing changes the fact that if you burn more calories than you consume, you'll loose weight.
If you aren't loosing weight AND counting all of your calories, guess what: you've counted wrong. Dial them back more. Keep dialing back until results are achieved. The gym bros have truly found This One Weird Trick that works 100% of the time.
The things you linked are completely irrelevant. First link: The calorie counts of food are wrong? Sure. Absolutely. No shock there. Treat them as rough estimates.
Second link: different people are different? Whoa. Wow. Oh man, mind blown.
What you naively describe as "not true", the universe itself would describe as bedrock reality.
Despite the bad scientism (i.e. coping) everyone hides behind, nothing changes the fact that if you burn more calories than you consume, you'll loose weight.
If you aren't loosing weight AND counting all of your calories, guess what: you've counted wrong. Dial them back more. Keep dialing back until results are achieved. The gym bros have truly found This One Weird Trick that works 100% of the time.