&gt; We&#x27;re talking about changing your eating and exercise habbits for the rest of your life. Two weeks is such a tiny drop in the bucket it&#x27;s hard to even measure it, and likely too many things were in flux to have settled down.<p>I had already hit my target so didn&#x27;t mind quitting.  The interesting part of the conversation to me is the plateau itself - according to many people, all people and especially individuals are the same, calories in minus exercise equals weight gained (or lost), there is no such thing as flux, every day is exactly the same, literally the only variable is your weight, and that hardly changes at all day to day.  Yet, myself and millions of other people do in fact hit a plateau with no noteworthy change in diet or exercise.  I&#x27;m just having a bit of fun seeing the variety of ways people twist logic and dance around questions related to this phenomenon while still maintaining this hardline calories in calories out stance.  :)<p>&gt; It makes no difference, because you can&#x27;t absorb more than you ate.<p>Correct.  However, you can absorb <i>less</i> than you eat!  Eat 2000 calories, absorb 1500, poop out the rest, <i>gee, I wonder if that might have any effect on weight loss?</i>