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I’m simply trying to explain that CICO isn’t one of a number of strategies, it is the only possible method for what people call “weight loss”
If you take out more energy from a system than you put in then there is a net loss in energy. That’s CICO.
People say it doesn’t work because they rarely count what they put in their body correctly and then rather than claim what they did is fallible they claim that the system is wildly different from person to person or a disease or medication is causing the problem.
The primary reason CICO doesn’t work for people is they are underestimating what goes in and overestimating what goes out.
I think that’s plausible, though I don’t know if it has been studied. It also coexists with the idea that what an individual actually digests can differ a lot from what is listed as a calorie count for a given food.