<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Goronmon</author><text>&lt;i&gt;This doesn&amp;#x27;t always work. Many people, myself included can fail to lose weight on a restricted calorie diet.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;I spent 12 months eating below 1200 while working out religiously (4-6 days a week with 30sh mins of cardio followed by 45sh mins of weight lifting). In the beginning I lost weight and fast. At 5&amp;#x27;9 I went from 240 down to 148 lbs in 7 months.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;You just described an example showing that a restricted calorie diet can be wildly successful. The former quote seems provably false using the latter.&lt;p&gt;Honestly, this is what I just read from your post.&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;I can&amp;#x27;t lose weight on a restricted calorie diet. Here is an example of how I lost a huge amount of weight on a restricted calorie diet.&lt;/i&gt;</text><parent_chain><item><author>sirtastic</author><text>This doesn&amp;#x27;t always work. Many people, myself included can fail to lose weight on a restricted calorie diet. I spent 12 months eating below 1200 while working out religiously (4-6 days a week with 30sh mins of cardio followed by 45sh mins of weight lifting). In the beginning I lost weight and fast. At 5&amp;#x27;9 I went from 240 down to 148 lbs in 7 months. At 148 I still had excess fat on my body and no matter how hard I worked out it went nowhere. I was borderline starving myself and everything I read said &amp;quot;it&amp;#x27;s simple calorie in vs out&amp;quot;. It became obvious to me that wasn&amp;#x27;t always true. It&amp;#x27;s frustrating to hear people spew that when I&amp;#x27;m weighing chicken breasts with 110% certainty of what my caloric intake is vs my out and here I was, not losing a damn pound.&lt;p&gt;I wish I could say I know what was going on. I have theories as I spent months of my life trying to turn the tables. I eventually gave up and just continued to lift weights and eat normal. Now 4 years later I still have that fat I couldn&amp;#x27;t lose but I&amp;#x27;m a lot bigger (muscle). That fat hasn&amp;#x27;t gone anywhere and in the 4 years I&amp;#x27;ve yo-yo&amp;#x27;d with different attempts to get rid of it. The fat I have is not normal.</text></item><item><author>funkyy</author><text>Very few public, true fitness instructors and dietitians are following the simplest rule ever - decrease calories to lose weight.
This method is not that popular, its to tricky since it requires for person to calculate foods, which makes it unpopular for lazy. But it is absolutely the best method to lose weight fast, decrease calorie intake and create shortage.</text></item><item><author>asadkn</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s typical how most people really want to immediately buy into the simple fixes and religiously believe them without knowing why it worked. Overweight? Must be the fructose (recently) &amp;#x2F; carbs (a while back) &amp;#x2F; fats (further back). Same old story. Somebody makes rounds in media and makes a lot of money after publishing a book with something &amp;quot;new&amp;quot; - a simple fix.&lt;p&gt;Fortunately we have people like Lyle McDonald, Alan Aragon, Guyenet out there talking some sanity. Unfortunately, they never make it to mainstream media.&lt;p&gt;Some Resources:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;weightology.net&amp;#x2F;weightologyweekly&amp;#x2F;index.php&amp;#x2F;free-content&amp;#x2F;free-content&amp;#x2F;volume-1-issue-7-insulin-and-thinking-better&amp;#x2F;insulin-an-undeserved-bad-reputation&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;weightology.net&amp;#x2F;weightologyweekly&amp;#x2F;index.php&amp;#x2F;free-cont...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;wholehealthsource.blogspot.com&amp;#x2F;2016&amp;#x2F;01&amp;#x2F;testing-insulin-model-response-to-dr.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;wholehealthsource.blogspot.com&amp;#x2F;2016&amp;#x2F;01&amp;#x2F;testing-insuli...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;medium.com&amp;#x2F;@lylemcdonald&amp;#x2F;highly-processed-carbohydrates-cause-more-insulin-secretion-calorie-for-calorie-than-any-other-38f907ae75d1#.p38cx0qc2&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;medium.com&amp;#x2F;@lylemcdonald&amp;#x2F;highly-processed-carbohydra...&lt;/a&gt; (A comment by Lyle on the rhetoric posted by Ludwig)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Sugar Conspiracy</title><url>http://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/apr/07/the-sugar-conspiracy-robert-lustig-john-yudkin</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>chillingeffect</author><text>How tall are you?  What&amp;#x27;s your build?  Yours sounds like a pretty damn successful story, congrats!&lt;p&gt;Calorie in vs. calorie out &lt;i&gt;is&lt;/i&gt; a simplistic way of looking at it.  It is certainly true for a first-order approach, though.  There is much more to it, such as timing, consumption of fiber with sugar, metabolism, etc. etc.  However, the most important factor which should be taken on first for the largest immediate changes is calorie in&amp;#x2F;out.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m curious how much fat you have now?  In my experience: With effort I was able to get to about 90% of my goals, but the last 10% is extremely stubborn and I haven&amp;#x27;t been able to get past it.  From what I understand, it would require extreme tactics, such as 10 hours of sleep nightly, eliminating all stress and amino acid accounting to eliminate.&lt;p&gt;I might suggest reducing the cardio greatly and replacing it with briefer, higher-intensity cardio, btw.  The body seems to adjust intake demands very well in response to cardio.  Also, what supplements do you use?  Finally, I&amp;#x27;m a little concerned when you say the fat you have is not normal - you may be straying into the unrealistic psychological zone, but obviously I can&amp;#x27;t tell much from here.  I just don&amp;#x27;t want you to be obsessing over a physique that is already quite acceptable.  Congrats again, your discipline should be inspiring to lots of people...  hope you comment doesn&amp;#x27;t stay gray long.</text><parent_chain><item><author>sirtastic</author><text>This doesn&amp;#x27;t always work. Many people, myself included can fail to lose weight on a restricted calorie diet. I spent 12 months eating below 1200 while working out religiously (4-6 days a week with 30sh mins of cardio followed by 45sh mins of weight lifting). In the beginning I lost weight and fast. At 5&amp;#x27;9 I went from 240 down to 148 lbs in 7 months. At 148 I still had excess fat on my body and no matter how hard I worked out it went nowhere. I was borderline starving myself and everything I read said &amp;quot;it&amp;#x27;s simple calorie in vs out&amp;quot;. It became obvious to me that wasn&amp;#x27;t always true. It&amp;#x27;s frustrating to hear people spew that when I&amp;#x27;m weighing chicken breasts with 110% certainty of what my caloric intake is vs my out and here I was, not losing a damn pound.&lt;p&gt;I wish I could say I know what was going on. I have theories as I spent months of my life trying to turn the tables. I eventually gave up and just continued to lift weights and eat normal. Now 4 years later I still have that fat I couldn&amp;#x27;t lose but I&amp;#x27;m a lot bigger (muscle). That fat hasn&amp;#x27;t gone anywhere and in the 4 years I&amp;#x27;ve yo-yo&amp;#x27;d with different attempts to get rid of it. The fat I have is not normal.</text></item><item><author>funkyy</author><text>Very few public, true fitness instructors and dietitians are following the simplest rule ever - decrease calories to lose weight.
This method is not that popular, its to tricky since it requires for person to calculate foods, which makes it unpopular for lazy. But it is absolutely the best method to lose weight fast, decrease calorie intake and create shortage.</text></item><item><author>asadkn</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s typical how most people really want to immediately buy into the simple fixes and religiously believe them without knowing why it worked. Overweight? Must be the fructose (recently) &amp;#x2F; carbs (a while back) &amp;#x2F; fats (further back). Same old story. Somebody makes rounds in media and makes a lot of money after publishing a book with something &amp;quot;new&amp;quot; - a simple fix.&lt;p&gt;Fortunately we have people like Lyle McDonald, Alan Aragon, Guyenet out there talking some sanity. Unfortunately, they never make it to mainstream media.&lt;p&gt;Some Resources:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;weightology.net&amp;#x2F;weightologyweekly&amp;#x2F;index.php&amp;#x2F;free-content&amp;#x2F;free-content&amp;#x2F;volume-1-issue-7-insulin-and-thinking-better&amp;#x2F;insulin-an-undeserved-bad-reputation&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;weightology.net&amp;#x2F;weightologyweekly&amp;#x2F;index.php&amp;#x2F;free-cont...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;wholehealthsource.blogspot.com&amp;#x2F;2016&amp;#x2F;01&amp;#x2F;testing-insulin-model-response-to-dr.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;wholehealthsource.blogspot.com&amp;#x2F;2016&amp;#x2F;01&amp;#x2F;testing-insuli...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;medium.com&amp;#x2F;@lylemcdonald&amp;#x2F;highly-processed-carbohydrates-cause-more-insulin-secretion-calorie-for-calorie-than-any-other-38f907ae75d1#.p38cx0qc2&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;medium.com&amp;#x2F;@lylemcdonald&amp;#x2F;highly-processed-carbohydra...&lt;/a&gt; (A comment by Lyle on the rhetoric posted by Ludwig)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Sugar Conspiracy</title><url>http://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/apr/07/the-sugar-conspiracy-robert-lustig-john-yudkin</url></story>