>>76400593(part 2)
2. The body can’t break thermodynamics
Even if hormones affect how much you eat or how your body burns, they don’t invalidate the basic math. They just influence the variables.
3. “CICO is bullshit” often just means “CICO is harder than it sounds”
The real world is a biochemical street fight. Tracking errors, hidden calories, underestimating portions, metabolic slowdown, food labeling lies — it all makes it feel like CICO isn’t working, when in fact, it’s being outmaneuvered.
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Testing Your Logic
If someone is in a sustained caloric deficit, will they lose weight eventually? Yes. Even on a garbage diet. Ask prisoners, cancer patients, or concentration camp victims — grim but real.
If someone is eating "clean," avoiding sugar, fasting, low-carb, and still not losing — can they still be in a surplus? Yes. Peanut butter is still calorie-dense voodoo.
Is it possible to gain weight on keto, carnivore, paleo, or raw vegan? Yep. If calories are in surplus, the laws still apply.
So if CICO doesn’t explain what to eat or why you’re hungry, but it does predict fat gain or loss... is it really bullshit?
Or is it just incomplete?
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Alternative Perspective: CI(CO*) with Asterisks
Think of CICO like:
> Calories In – Calories Out is the ledger. But your hormones, sleep, food quality, and exercise decide what’s written in the margins.**Or better yet:
CICO is the outcome. Not the method.
You don’t win by tracking it harder. You win by manipulating the forces that naturally keep you in a deficit without feeling like garbage:
High satiety foods (protein, fiber)
Resistance training
Sleep
Stress reduction
Avoiding ultra-processed junk that hijacks hunger cues
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