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So your refutation against that is your personal experience? I'm glad it worked out for you but that seem a bit weak. > precise calorie counting is a strawman

by Zababa 5y ago

So your refutation against that is your personal experience? I'm glad it worked out for you but that seem a bit weak. > precise calorie counting is a strawman argument against CICO Precise calorie counting is what most people talking about CICO promote though. And not to "get an intuition for how much calories are in food", what you hear most often is "calculate your TDEE, eat 500 calories under".

MichaelGroves 5y ago
The most important message of CICO is not "count your calories". It's "you're fat because you eat too much." Matter isn't materializing out of the aether and putting itself into your ass, it comes from you eating too much food. Fat people are fat because there is an imbalance in how much they eat and how active they are. And in modern American society, the vast majority of it is from a culture of binge eating. This is what I've observed not only in myself, but in every other fat person I've met. There are all kinds of coping mechanisms people use to excuse themselves and stay fat. "I don't eat more than normal, I'm just a genetic anomaly who absorbs more nutrients from food than everybody else.." Well assuming that wasn't BS, the answer is still to eat less. Or "CICO is just a thought terminating cliche"; if I had fallen for that BS, I'd still be fat. I'm glad I saw through those lies.