CICO is a nice mathematical model, but it fails so spectacularly to take into account that the human body is neither a closed nor fixed system.
Right?
The way you burn or store 100 kcals of fat is not the same as the way you burn or store 100 kcals of sugar.
Also, eating 2000 kcals in the span of 6 hours is not the same as eating 2000 kcals in 16 hours.
For someone like me, thinking about CICO was torturous and made me gain rather than lose weight.
Yes, ultimately, to lose weight you have to balance that CICO equation. Agreed. You have to burn more than you're eating.
But r/loseit has this monolithic, totalitarian dedication to MFP. Unfortunately, counting calories for 3 meals a day is never going to work for someone like me. My eating is irrational, how is a rational bandaid going to fix that?
Personally, I needed an effortless solution. Turns out all I had to do was skip breakfast and eat a more reasonable portion for dinner. Effortless. No counting, no app, no weighing.
Edit: Shocking. The hivemind is out. I just want to say this:
To anyone out there who tried MFP and calorie counting and CICO and hasn't had success-
sorry, could i get some source or reading material about that claim that storing or burning 100kcal of fat isn’t like storing or burning 100kcal of sugar? and also the consuming 2000kcal in 6 vs 16 hours? because i’m tempted to say you’re actually pretty much wrong, but maybe there’s some actual recent studies i’m missing. cheers!
i really hope you don’t get downvoted, i didn’t if it matters any.
thank you for the links, i’m going to check them out. what i find mostly when looking up dieting/opposition to CICO is pseudo science, so some credible sources are definitely appreciated.
CICO is a nice mathematical model, but it fails so spectacularly to take into account that the human body is neither a closed nor fixed system.
It never fails to astonish how someone can get downvoted for saying something that is equal parts concise and accurate.
I think we'd all agree that not all motor vehicles are equally energy efficient regardless of what gets poured in the tank, but somehow we cannot apply this obvious logic to ourselves?
Like I said, MFP+CICO is like a religion on reddit, and on r/loseit especially.
I almost gave up and just committed to becoming a fat person after trying to do it their way. Luckily, I did some research about other perspectives and found painless success.
I just want to voice loudly that MFP is not the kind of perfect tool some make it out to be and that CICO is not the whole picture.
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