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People like to say that it's something else, in my experience, because they do, in fact, know what CICO is, and have tried it, and have failed when they tried i
by Loughla 5y ago
People like to say that it's something else, in my experience, because they do, in fact, know what CICO is, and have tried it, and have failed when they tried it.
With broad strokes, those failures can be lumped into 2 categories: 1) lack of willpower (pretty self-explanatory) and 2) hoodwinked, bamboozled, and otherwise tricked by food package nutrition labels.
It is genuinely hard to discern real calories consumed using just food labels, and not 3rd party sources and at-home food scales.
That's the part that people don't understand, I think.
Source: I was fat, now I'm a little less fat because of CICO. Still kinda fat, but getting less fat slowly. I learned early that nutrition labels are your enemy and are just another marketing tool used by savvy companies.
- yupper32 5y agoWhat do you mean by your distain for food package nutrition labels? In the US it's tightly controlled. The only thing I can think of (calories wise) is that people only look at the per-serving calories and not the per-package calories. This has gotten better over the past 5-10 years but still requires people to actually read it.
- kiba 5y agoI had lost weight without counting calories. CICO works, but it didn't work in the long term for me. My method of losing weight and eventual weight maintenance, is intermittent fasting. It just means that I don't eat for long periods of time. Every week, I undergo a 48 hours fast and for the rest of time, I effectively only eat one meal a day.
- yupper32 5y agoIF is CICO. CICO does not mean counting calories. Counting calories is just the most direct diet. IF and Keto end up doing the same thing, just differently (and it's potentially easier for some).