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I suppose that is what I'm asking indeed! (I'm blaming the lack of clear thinking on pms hormones!) Great, well - /thread, I guess. Thank you to all who contributed - I had misunderstood the bad diet saying a bit.

Well, again - aside from STACKS of sugar (how much is a stack?:)) ... if I eat 1500kcal of junk food per day for weeks on end and maintain my activity level, I will lose weight, isn't that correct? It might be largely muscle etc but technically...

Thank you for sharing - that sounds like a great way to approach things (focusing on macros instead of just calories alone). I do follow this most of the time but as I mentioned, a couple of days a week I go over my calorie allowance and try to make it up in the gym. (all in all a difficult issue to tackle because the…

Thank you for your input but again - I am talking about a controlled excess calories (not a "bad diet" all the time - phrasing was my fault, sorry) and compensating those with exercise.

Please read my OP - I know EXACTLY how many calories I overate and approximately how many I burned. I do not eat "whatever I want, whenever I want". My question was about why people still say you can't out train your excess calories if apparently it's all about calories in vs out.

Thank you for the answers! Much appreciated. So it's true then-I'll have to learn to love protein a bit more, no way around it;(