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Originally Posted by The Big D 
This is where you go off the deep end. You CAN eat half a pizza, work out for real (running around the block isn't enough to count) and come out fine or in calorie deficit, at least if you're male and reasonably sized. I know this for a fact because I do it all the time. Half a 14" pizza is roughly 1300 calories, depending on the exact pizza in question. An hour's serious workout is roughly 700 depending on what you're doing. So a kid who eats half a pizza and then does a 2 hour basketball practice or whatever is probably SHORT 100 calories past where he would be if he skipped dinner. He's going to be damn hungry - he should have eaten more like 3/4 of the pizza and even then with afterburn and muscle repair/building he may end up net losing weight out of the exchange. It's highly unlikely 3/4 of a pizza is going to leave someone feeling deprived.
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You're confusing weight loss with good health. Good health has so much more to do with the quality of food - not just the calories in vs out. What are you getting in that 14" pizza - besides 1300 calories? Processed white flour, salt, sugar, processed tomato sauce, processed meats, processed cheese, saturated fat, cholesterol..... It's all empty calories. Where's the vitamins? Minerals? Nutrients? And I'm not talking about synthetic chemicals that are injected back into the food after the fact. I'm talking about the building blocks that our body needs to thrive.
What I'm saying is - that when you focus on nutrition - giving the body what it really needs - weight loss is a by-product.
I remember when I was young, I too, could eat whatever I wanted. My metabolism was high enough that I would burn off whatever I ate. But as you get older, and you'll have to trust me on this one, your metabolism will slow down. Your internal organs get tired of trying to process all the junk you've swallowed over the years. And when that happens - look out.