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Well if CICO is not a good idea, not really healthy not really applicable to most people, then why bring it up when we are talking about solution to obesity ?

Well if CICO is not a good idea, not really healthy not really applicable to most people, then why bring it up when we are talking about solution to obesity ? The main problem with CICO is that it is confusing the description of a process with an intervention designed to modify said process. Both things a very different. > I’m merely saying IF you do it right, THEN you will lose weight... > that it still works despite all of this... That's the first part, the "works" include the IF... You mixing efficacy and effectiveness is here. > 1. Will it work if you do it exactly as directed? Try to apply CICO to water and hydration level : You can modulate your hydration level by driking more or less. BUT, you can go above a certain level or below a certain level independent of how much you drink. The problem with CICO's is you fail to realize that CI and CO are not the control variables and you might be getting the causality wrong. Much in the same way that you can change the temperature of a room by changing the value on a thermometer... You can't change the body set point and fat disposition by "just" changing CI/CO.

ninkendo 3y ago
> Well if CICO is not a good idea, not really healthy not really applicable to most people, then why bring it up when we are talking about solution to obesity ? You may want to read my first post again. I spend nearly the entire post agreeing about the problems with CICO. But in my last paragraph I explain that I still like it and that it works for me, and explain why. YMMV. > That's the first part, the "works" include the IF... You mixing efficacy and effectiveness is here. Right, that’s called propositional logic. It’s perfectly valid to make “CICO works” predicated upon whether you follow it correctly. This isn’t as trivial it sounds: there are diets for which this is not true!. I can totally stick to a low carb diet to the letter and still gain weight, because if you don’t include a calorie limit, you can still go way over your calorie expenditure even with low carbs. As trivial as my “definition 1” is for “works”, it’s still a bar that many diets don’t pass.
- soulbadguy 3y ago
  Well the point i am trying to make is that your explanation on why it work for you is probably wrong, and even more the advice you generate from your theory can be dangerous and counter productive. > Right, that’s called propositional logic. It’s perfectly valid to make “CICO works” predicated upon whether you follow it correctly. Well no. And that really the core of the issue. I see that you didn't answer to the example i gave you. But if we want to be pedantic : 1 - There is no definition of "works" in propositional logic. 2 - Here what i understand from your logic deductions : A - CICO can be rephrase as : For a given individual , for every time duration t : delta_weight(t) = CI(t) - CO(t) B - What you are saying is : for a given individual , for every time duration t : delta_weight(t) = CI(t) - CO(t), THEREFORE, for every delta_weight, there is a time duration T, and CI(t) and CO(t) such that delta_weight = CI(t) and CO(t); And my point is that B is false (empirically), and does NOT follow from A (logically). And to repeat myself you can try this game with room temperature and thermometer readings.
  - ninkendo 3y ago
    Your understanding of CICO (or at least the point I am making about it) is wrong in your “B” paragraph. My argument boils down to the following: For every individual, at any given time, there is a metabolic rate M for which, if their calorie intake was larger than that, they’d gain weight, and if their calorie intake was smaller, they’d lose weight. Crucially, M changes over time. But going CICO properly means using the scale to measure M, every day, by diffing your expected value of your weight loss given how much you’re eaten, with the actual value on the scale. You now have an updated value for M to use in calorie counting. Since M is determined by empirical observations of your weight loss/gain in response to the calories you have consumed, you will by definition lose weight if you consume less than M calories. This is the argument that CICO must work by definition. It’s a logical contradiction for it not to work.
    - soulbadguy 3y ago
      > Your understanding of CICO (or at least the point I am making about it) is wrong in your “B” paragraph. Just to clarify B is not cico, it's the inference that you seems to make from CICO. > For every individual, at any given time, there is a metabolic rate M for which, if their calorie intake was larger than that, they’d gain weight, and if their calorie intake was smaller, they’d lose weight. Crucially, M changes over time This is "not" the definition of CICO, and again does not follow from CICO. CICO is fundamentally a thermodynamic statement about the observed state of a system. You are making predictive statement about a possible future state of the system. Again, if you want to believe that statement that's fine. The point i am making is just it's does not follow from cico, no have i seen anything empirically that validate that statement. > Since M is determined by empirical observations of your weight loss/gain in response to the calories you have consumed, you will by definition lose weight if you consume less than M calories. sure this derived from your "definition" of CICO... but your definition is not thermodynamically derived... > This is the argument that CICO must work by definition the premise (the definition of the argument) is flawed. > It’s a logical contradiction for it not to work. Not really, CICO not working (as in this case) can be just the result of sound logic based on bad premises.

ninkendo 3y ago

> Well if CICO is not a good idea, not really healthy not really applicable to most people, then why bring it up when we are talking about solution to obesity ? You may want to read my first post again. I spend nearly the entire post agreeing about the problems with CICO. But in my last paragraph I explain that I still like it and that it works for me, and explain why. YMMV. > That's the first part, the "works" include the IF... You mixing efficacy and effectiveness is here. Right, that’s called propositional logic. It’s perfectly valid to make “CICO works” predicated upon whether you follow it correctly. This isn’t as trivial it sounds: there are diets for which this is not true!. I can totally stick to a low carb diet to the letter and still gain weight, because if you don’t include a calorie limit, you can still go way over your calorie expenditure even with low carbs. As trivial as my “definition 1” is for “works”, it’s still a bar that many diets don’t pass.

soulbadguy 3y ago
Well the point i am trying to make is that your explanation on why it work for you is probably wrong, and even more the advice you generate from your theory can be dangerous and counter productive. > Right, that’s called propositional logic. It’s perfectly valid to make “CICO works” predicated upon whether you follow it correctly. Well no. And that really the core of the issue. I see that you didn't answer to the example i gave you. But if we want to be pedantic : 1 - There is no definition of "works" in propositional logic. 2 - Here what i understand from your logic deductions : A - CICO can be rephrase as : For a given individual , for every time duration t : delta_weight(t) = CI(t) - CO(t) B - What you are saying is : for a given individual , for every time duration t : delta_weight(t) = CI(t) - CO(t), THEREFORE, for every delta_weight, there is a time duration T, and CI(t) and CO(t) such that delta_weight = CI(t) and CO(t); And my point is that B is false (empirically), and does NOT follow from A (logically). And to repeat myself you can try this game with room temperature and thermometer readings.
- ninkendo 3y ago
  Your understanding of CICO (or at least the point I am making about it) is wrong in your “B” paragraph. My argument boils down to the following: For every individual, at any given time, there is a metabolic rate M for which, if their calorie intake was larger than that, they’d gain weight, and if their calorie intake was smaller, they’d lose weight. Crucially, M changes over time. But going CICO properly means using the scale to measure M, every day, by diffing your expected value of your weight loss given how much you’re eaten, with the actual value on the scale. You now have an updated value for M to use in calorie counting. Since M is determined by empirical observations of your weight loss/gain in response to the calories you have consumed, you will by definition lose weight if you consume less than M calories. This is the argument that CICO must work by definition. It’s a logical contradiction for it not to work.
  - soulbadguy 3y ago
    > Your understanding of CICO (or at least the point I am making about it) is wrong in your “B” paragraph. Just to clarify B is not cico, it's the inference that you seems to make from CICO. > For every individual, at any given time, there is a metabolic rate M for which, if their calorie intake was larger than that, they’d gain weight, and if their calorie intake was smaller, they’d lose weight. Crucially, M changes over time This is "not" the definition of CICO, and again does not follow from CICO. CICO is fundamentally a thermodynamic statement about the observed state of a system. You are making predictive statement about a possible future state of the system. Again, if you want to believe that statement that's fine. The point i am making is just it's does not follow from cico, no have i seen anything empirically that validate that statement. > Since M is determined by empirical observations of your weight loss/gain in response to the calories you have consumed, you will by definition lose weight if you consume less than M calories. sure this derived from your "definition" of CICO... but your definition is not thermodynamically derived... > This is the argument that CICO must work by definition the premise (the definition of the argument) is flawed. > It’s a logical contradiction for it not to work. Not really, CICO not working (as in this case) can be just the result of sound logic based on bad premises.