Dr. Jason Fung

Money saved equals money in minus money out, right?

So if you say, how do you save more money?

According to the sort of calories logic, you'd say, just make more money.

But making money and saving money are not the same thing, right?

If you make a lot of money and spend a lot of money, like some of those, you know, ex-NFL players and stuff, you could still go bankrupt.

They're totally different, right?

Same thing.

For every dollar you earn, you could save it or you could spend it, which when you do is critically important to the overall outcome.

And it's exactly the same with the calories.

For every calorie you put in, you can either store it as body fat or you can burn it for basal metabolism.

And it's very important which one you do.

So why?

And that's obviously controlled by your hormones.

So why aren't we acknowledging how important it is?

Yeah, the fat thermostat, the concept has been around for like 40 years.

And everybody who has tried to lose weight actually knows this.

This is a poor biological principle called homeostasis.

So homeostasis is a sort of fancy word for balance.

And it works like a thermostat in your room.

So you'd set the thermostat and you say, okay, I'm going to set room temperature.