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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm new to this topic, why is CICO threatening to the posters in this thread?  I mean, it's clearly true in some sense (it's literally tautological) even if there can be additional context.  [/quote]

I think it's because a lot of people who use the concept do so in a manner that suggests - if not necessarily saying so outright - that fat people are fat because they are more gluttonous than skinny people. I think there would be less resistance to the concept if advocates were more forthright about metabolisms being all over the map and that consumption amounts aren't a matter of morality or virtue. [/quote]

It’s not all over the map by the orders of magnitude that people want to believe.  [/quote]

But it is. As a lifelong dieter currently maintaining close to goal, I was very interested in the scientific finding that my “CO” side of the equation is about 20-25% less than someone who has always been my weight. That’s quite a delta, especially given that I’m still 5-8 lbs overweight. I don’t even know how long this effect lasts because most people never kept the weight off long enough to find out. [/quote]

What does this even mean? Calories out of course is complicated. A body at rest with fundamentally different muscle to fat ratio will have a calories out “calculation” that is possibly 20-25% higher. Beyond this, the person who has such a wildly different body composition is much more active anyways. Everything converges on an explanation. It’s not random.

Either way, you deal with the hand you are dealt like everything else in life. If you don’t need as much energy intake, figure how to not intake so much energy. [/quote]

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