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

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.