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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People aren’t looking for excuses.  They are looking for explanations so they can find an answer that works long term.  What is so difficult for people to accept about the fact that  everybody is unique?  What works for one person is not going to work exactly the same way for another person.  You can have two people eating exactly the same food, doing exactly the same exercise, and get drastically different results.[/quote]

I don't think anyone disputes that different people will have different experiences even eating the same foods.  The reactions we see in this thread are to posts declaring the utter preposterousness of CICO, despite CICO self-evidently not being preposterous (indeed, it's tautological).  A unifying position may be "CICO determine weight loss, but since both calories in and calories out depend to some extent on individual experiences, different people will have different experiences with similar foods and levels of activity."  [/quote]

Really? Because I see not a few posts deriding fat people for not having self control and daring to question why calorie restriction isn’t really giving them the long term results they want.  F[b]or some people the “self-control” needed to calorie restrict themselves to thinness looks like an eating disorder in a thin person. No one should live like that. [/b] It’s just not an acceptable solution. We need to do better than that.[/quote]
Preach![/quote]

Weight gain and loss is just another example of society always trying to find something else to blame instead of taking personal responsibility for your actions. Sure CICO isn't perfect and there are differences from person to person but at the end of the day for the majority of people if you burning more calories then you are eating you will lose weight...[/quote]

Funny. I had the opposite reaction - CICO was an attempt to blame the individual rather than acknowledge variables other than personal choices. [/quote]

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