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Always reassuring to suggest a scientist and then say "but don't read anything more recent"

But if you eat nothing but Snickers and maintain a calory deficit you're gonna have a bad time.

But you would lose weight, because of the deficit. It's just that it would be very difficult to maintain that diet for myriad reasons.

Keto causes greater water loss vs calorie counting on a healthy diet, so it's not surprising you lost more "weight" per day. It's a terrible way to lose weight, though.

This video explains it (all sources to studies are listed, too).

I was consuming about 150% of my normal pre-diet Calorie intake and losing 500g per day for a month. CICO is flatout not the mechanic used.

You are stating that without knowing your calories out, and asserting that the laws of thermodynamics aren't real

Keto works due to two things: 1) proteins and fats are more filling than carbs, and 2) your basal metabolic rate increases when you are in ketosis

And caloric deficit is only true on a fictitious notion of metabolism via a simplified system model of a human as a black box. As far as weight loss strategies go, calorie counting is extremely ineffective, and often leads to worse quality of life.

If your goal is however to shame people with a highschool level understanding of metabolism by making the problem into something "simple" they are failing to do with your actively bad advice, it's effective.

The point of intermittent fasting is that during the fast your metabolism increases and your body enters partial ketosis which is beneficial for healing and general well being.

The obvious intent of the graphic is in regards to dieting for the purpose of losing weight.

Close but not exactly, your body is capable of freely switching between fat or carb burning. When your body really thinks it's starving, it will start "eating" your muscles instead.

Fat burning gives steady supply of energy instead of the highs and lows of energy dense carbs. You feel this the hardest after lunch, on carbs you'll often feel tired and sluggish. You don't have this on keto.

Switching into keto can be a miserable experience though, so you're right about that. Once in keto it's chill.

The thing with keto is when overweight people start they are overeating, and so dropping carbs puts them into calorie deficit for sustaining the bodily functions. Then forcing the body to have no quick fuel availble starts ketosis.

But over eating on keto can keep you from losing weight. Look to the traditional diet Inuit First nation that survived in the tundra on meats and fats. They weren't in ketosis

Fat doesn't make you fat. Overeating is generally the problem. Check out a book called The Big Fat Surprise -- it's quite a good read.

Because from a weight-loss perspective it doesn't matter what you eat, only how much calories you stuff into your mouth. You could eat nothing but bacon and still lose weight, if you eat only so much that you still burn more calories per day than the bacon delivers. If you keep your portions the same size but move to food with more calories, you will of course gain weight.

Fat can also trigger parts of your system to stop craving it, so you stop trying to aquire it by overeating. There are some science articles about it.

Staving off constant hunger can be as easy as cooking up a lentil (daal) soup that has some oil/butter in it. The lentils make you get a very full satisfied feeling in the bowel and the fats hit the part that wants fats.

Carbs are processed first, so if you don't eat carbs, in theory your body will burn depot fat earlier.

You still need to eat less calories than you burn though.