Edit: I do not plan on ever doing any of the things listed below, I am asking this question purely to get it off my chest and better understand the nature of caloric deficits :)
I have seen that the key to fat loss is being in a calorie deficit. I completely understand the idea behind this, but I was wondering if calories = calories, regardless of where they come from.
For example, if someone has a maintenance calorie level of around 2,750 and they were to eat 1,900 calories worth of food, however, this was only from eating chocolate, ice cream, fries, soda etc, would lose more weight than if they were to eat 2,500 calories via eating green beans, chicken breasts, water, rice etc?
I am guessing the answer to this is "yes, but it would be very hard to eat only 1,900 calories from junk food and not be completely starving, and eating 2,500 calories worth of food from those foods is very difficult."
I suppose the question essentially boils down to, so long as you are in a caloric deficit, is it true you will lose weight regardless of where those calories come from, making it theoretically possible to eat nothing but crap and still lose body fat?
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