Aotearoa / New Zealand

To not answer the question you posited, and instead look a the assumptions in your statement. The book goes into the specifics.

because it contradicts everything we know about exercise and energy expenditure

There are examples sited, to scientific articles in highly respected journals that show this effect. I also know of plenty of people who go to the gym and yet are not loosing weight, anecdotal I know, which point to the fact that exercise does great things for the body but burning fat isn't one of them.

Over the long term energy in vs energy out will cause weight loss, however the short and long term act in vastly different ways.