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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Well how about this?

CICO is true for most people.  However, there are some individuals who don't metabolize their food intake as efficiently as most of us.  They can input more food than average and still not gain weight.  I happen to have known someone like that.  She could eat, say, 4000 Cs or so every day and still keep her trim figure, even without spending much time exercising.  She said she didn't know why this was so, but she had always been like that.  Of course, she was the envy of every other woman in the office.

But most of us aren't like that.  That's why people who succeed at losing weight and KEEPING IT OFF are much more likely to be those who accept the fact that they must keep track of calories, no matter what their source.[/quote]

The opposite also exists. Some people’s bodies do not effectively use the calories they consume, no matter how few. Two people running a 5k do not burn the exact same amount of calories or store the same amount of fat in spite of the run. That is the variable at play that most people ignore. And it is a spectrum. [/quote]

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