Real life fat logic in action. I'm talking to an otherwise intelligent relative. She's got a fairly important job, in accounting at a mid-sized company. She decides where millions go, and when. Ever since she passed 50 and her uterus shut down, she's been having trouble managing her weight. She has consulted a lot and tried every fad diet ever. We drift into that topic again and she tells me about how she's been talking with a "diet expert" lately. She's been told (and of course BELIEVES) that she should start to eat more. I ask her about the suggested portions, which seem a bit on the large side for an older woman who isn't very mobile anymore (arthritis is a bitch) and works a desk job. She says she finds it hard to make herself eat quite that much, but she wants to lose weight. I go over my memory of what I heard. Did I have any doubts about any part of that? Nope. I ask for a reconfirmation anyway. Why should you eat more to lose weight? She tells me that the "diet expert" told her that she needs to activate her metabolism, because it will shut down completely if she doesn't eat enough. I mention nazi death camps and people starving to death while in full-on starvation mode. She says that's only true if you don't eat at all. So, starvation mode is worse if you only eat a little bit, as opposed to not eating at all? She brightens up. Finally I get it! She tells me I should eat more too so I have an easier time keeping the weight off. I promise I'll something something while internally I scream and feel like HEADBANGDESKWALLFLOOR. But I have an excellent poker face, so it's okay. I'm very glad to head for another topic where sanity and the laws of physics suddenly mean something again. Fat logic is so terminally stupid. Why do people always want magic to apply to nutrition? I always get treated like a retard when I keep bringing up that old saw about conservation of mass+energy.