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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]CICO is just fact. No one is sedentary eating thousands of calories each day (3,000+) and skinny.

No one is running 10 miles a day eating 1,500 calories a day, and obese.

Yes, there may be some slight variation from person to person depending on their lifestyle habits and muscle mass, but CICO works. Maybe you take 2 identical people-  same age, gender, activity levels, and weights. One person needs 1,750 calories to maintain, and the other needs 1,730 calories to maintain. Minute differences happen, but aren't going to cause big swings in weight.

The fact remains is that people generally aren't accurately counting their calories all day every day of the week, and are underestimating how much they consume, and over estimating how active they are. [/quote]

First, except for people who really eat many sticks of butter, a low-carb diet is a low- or moderate-calorie diet.

Second, the biggest obstacle to weight loss is probably related to the messages the microbes in our guts send our brains and endocrine system.

A low-carb diet or other weird diet is a way to try to re-set faulty gut microbes. It might help by reducing calories, but it might also help, for some people, by changing endocrine system and brain factors that decrease hunger, increase happiness and increase focus and willpower.

So, for people who click with a low-carb diet, the endocrine and brain changes may be more important than the reduction in calories, even though the reduction in calories is the direct cause of the weight loss, because the endocrine and brain changes are what make sticking with the diet possible.  [/quote]

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