Exercise makes you hungry, and that appetite boost can lead to eating more, which complicates the simple calories-in-calories-out story about weight gain. The speaker argues that framing is circular: saying weight gain happens when you eat more than you burn just restates the problem without explaining why your body actually works that way.
you eat more. Well, everybody knows that. It's called working up an appetite, right? So it happens. So the whole point is that that whole calories in, calories out is not an inevitable argument. Increase in body fat equals calories in greater than calories out, which means that in any case, in any place where you see calories in greater than calories out, it equals weight gain. So if you say weight gain is caused by calories in greater than calories out, right? That means you're just saying weight gain is caused by weight gain. No, it's not. It makes no sense. Yeah, it makes no sense because remember, energy balance says it's equal. Calories in minus calories out equals body weight, right? Correct. So any place you can see calories in minus calories out, because it's equal, you can replace it with body
