A couple of years ago, a nutrition and fitness expert published a book with the somewhat disconcerting title: “ The Myth of Calories. Like eating more, exercising less, losing weight and living better ”. His name is Jonathan Bailor , and after evaluating a series of studies he proposes not to focus only on the calorie count to lose weight, but on the quality of the foods we eat, which must be nutritious and not provide us with empty calories (no to refined foods, no. to industrial products such as processed meats, etc.), and to the type of exercise in order to finally lose weight. The book is designed for those who get stressed by cutting calories, undernourishing and killing themselves with fatigue behind aerobics exercises,but despite this iron behavior he cannot drop even a hectogram.
It is much more common than what one thinks: there are many people who, despite going to the gym and eating less and less, do not lose weight. Or rather, they initially lose something and then stop abruptly and tend to gain weight only when passing a display of sweets. Why does this happen? Because the metabolism is sufficient for what little we give it. With the logical consequence that instead of losing weight we remain in the weight and have a slow metabolism, so at the first sin we take a kilo.