> Losing weight is about calories in versus calories out
[citation needed]. I know that's the common wisdom, but I also know of countless anecdotes (see e.g. http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/sam-feltham/weight-loss-advi... and his previous 6K-calorie diet, and some real data - a few of the references in http://media.sethroberts.net/about/whatmakesfoodfattening.pd... , don't remember which ones) where that simply does not work. And I've actually been looking for papers establishing the science behind "calorie counting", and came up mostly with contrary results -
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC506782/