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This is trivially shown to be false.

Imagine a system with a background/quiescent energy consumption of 1000kCal/day.

Imagine that same system can buffer up to 500kCal for up to 24 hours store excess energy in circulation.

Imagine it converts excess energy to stored energy at an efficiency of 50%.

Assume activity correlates with marginal energy consumption but also increases in the presence of excess energy.

A system such as the one described would have very different behaviors during alternate day fasting (0kCal for 24hrs, 5000kCal for 24hrs) than consuming 2500kCal daily.

The human body is more complex than the system I just described, but it is a useful model to consider for this context.



Real world efficiency factors are in the 90s and basal rates aren't constant. The model you're proposing is too artificial to draw conclusions about fasting over a short timeframe.


Then please provide a more accurate one that supports the opposite and simplistic conclusion that it doesn't matter when you eat what calories.


So, the excess energy in your model is just excreted? Does that also happen in the human body?


Yes. On the other spectrum, the body becomes more efficient when moving a lot.




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