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> CICO a piss poor oversimplified explanation for weight loss Kinda reads like an embarrassing cope, tbh. Blaming mystical 'other factors' is stepping over dol
by goostavos 5y ago
> CICO a piss poor oversimplified explanation for weight loss
Kinda reads like an embarrassing cope, tbh. Blaming mystical 'other factors' is stepping over dollars to pick up pennies. At the end of the day, CICO is all that matters. To deny this is to say that you have a metabolism not based on consuming external matter.
Your lack of progress can entirely be explained by just making a plain, good old fashion error with your in/out expenditure. Something we all literally do. We don't need magic involved to explain it. Your body gave you data that you were wrong, but you ignored it, threw up your hands, and now blame "other factors."
Want to lose weight? Use this One Weird Trick those dummy gym bros with no understanding of science have been using since forever.
1. Reduce your calories
2. monitor your weight
3. adjust 1. based on 2.
Step 3 is the important bit you missed.
- kcplate 5y agoHardly. I did adjust…I added calories, and my weight loss resumed. And like I said, if my BMR was not normative for my age, weight, and activity level, it was the culprit. What you folks on here are referring as “mystical” and “magical” is not either. In fact the opposite. It’s evolution. Your body’s sympathetic nervous system evolved to react and adjust to help keep you alive during periods of stress. Starvation is a stressor, it’s ridiculous to think that our bodies simply shrug it off and keep operating business as usual. Once the stressor was removed the body decided to “resume normal processing” it became easier to lose weight. FWIW, I am not saying that a prolonged period of starvation would not result in weight loss, but I am saying your body on limited fuel will conserve the fuel it gets any way IT can.