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You can say the exact same thing for Keto, IF or any other alternative meal planning. There are pros and cons to eating in different ways. Throwing out CICO wit

You can say the exact same thing for Keto, IF or any other alternative meal planning. There are pros and cons to eating in different ways. Throwing out CICO with the bathwater is excluding potentially millions of people who don't have the time, money or opportunity to "just eat healthier". We have to be realistic on how we communicate how to lose weight _for the masses_. Trust me, I ventured into dietetics only to be jaded at various national and multinational attempts at building watered/dumbed down meal planning advice but throughout the years I realized that you have to have simple and easy to follow guidelines (everyone can understand CICO) so that on the whole, we're getting people to lose weight. I'm not saying CICO is the silver bullet, far from it, but it WORKS.

jfengel 6y ago
CICO is the core of any effective diet. The rest of it is all about trying to enforce it. Which is all about keeping people from feeling hungry, bored, or otherwise failing to follow through. Most diets work for the first few weeks because people are engaged by the novelty. Longer term compliance depends a lot on the person, both mentally and physically (including all the complexities of muscle mass, gut biome, and the whole nine yards). There's no silver bullet. You just have to keep at it until you find something that you can stick with. What works for me is doing my own cooking, keeping a lot of vegetables around, and getting out of the house so that I'm too busy to stuff snacks into my face. I suspect that would work for a lot of people -- though that last part is really difficult with an office job. That's me. Everybody else, good luck.