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This doesn't sound like it was controlled for simply eating less calories.

• oxymoran 8y ago
  Because it wasn’t and that’s not the point. Everybody already knows a caloric deficit results in weight loss. The point, and the control, was that the same person, eating the exact same caloric intake exhibited different outcomes solely based on the time of day the ate.
  • projektir 8y ago
    > Everybody already knows a caloric deficit results in weight loss. I can assure you "everybody" doesn't already know that, in fact, this seems to be a _minority_ opinion. The vast majority of people seem to think they need a diet (i.e., restriction on type of food) to lose weight. The only people I know who are actually on CICO are people I encouraged to try it.
    • gore90- 8y ago
      I can't get over how many people on here are suggesting that knowing about CICO is "useless". Why? Because it is an oversimplification? They underestimate how many people literally do not believe that eating at a caloric deficit would result in weight loss.
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  • toasterlovin 8y ago
    Caloric deficit does not result in weight loss. It results in a smaller energy input. That smaller input can be balanced two ways: 1. Utilizing stored calories (which will result in weight loss). 2. Expending less energy (which would not result in weight loss). Realistically, reducing calories probably results in some combination of the two, with things tilting toward expending less energy as your body gets below a body fat percentage that it "wants" to be at.