I'm having trouble accepting the whole calorie thesis. For one thing, I've eaten a diet low enough in calories have lost two or three times my entire body weight for years on end and have done nothing but gain weight, and my ex-husband used to eat huge amounts of very fattening foods all day long and never gained an ounce.

If it's all about calories, how do you explain these phenomena? Don't tell me my body "went into starvation mode and transformed everything into fat" because I never starved. I ate as much as I wanted, whenever I felt like it, of satisfying whole foods in correct balance with respect to fat, protein, carbs, etc. My ex on the other hand would eat tons of stuff that I couldn't even think of eating without gaining five pounds just from the thought of it, yet he stayed thin, and he was not that active of a person. No more than me, anyhow.

I've been eating more often and in smaller quantities per meal for the last year or so, and it has not resulted in any weight loss. Quite the opposite! I am stumped over this.

__________________