Thank you for sharing your story, and congratulations on your sustained weight loss. It’s wonderful that you have found a diet that helps you keep energy balance in check, while fueling your body and keeping you feeling satisfied.

You raise some great points — variable adherence to diets is a huge confounder in real-life trials. Yet, highly controlled trials may have limited real-life applicability. This is why I like to look at both.

I just finished one of the sister articles to this one: “When a Calorie is Not a Calorie”. https://medium.com/@chanapdavis/when-a-calorie-is-not-a-calorie-82062c6bd740

More coming!