CICO, It's a math formula
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Tiny_Dancer_in_Pink wrote: »GaleHawkins wrote: »GaleHawkins wrote: »geneticsteacher wrote: »GaleHawkins wrote: »Repeating: CICO is not calorie counting. You need not count, calculate, or (in the normal sense of the word) estimate calories in order to use CICO to lose weight. You need not know how many calories you eat. You need not know how many calories you burn. You cannot lose weight without 'using CICO'. Or gain weight, or maintain weight, for that matter. It's trivially true.
However . . . employing it conciously and intentionally helps some people. A lot. Whether they count calories, or not.
The arguments here about whether CO (or CI) are knowable, precise, accurate, etc., have more to do with whether calorie counting works. The many people who are successful here on MFP by using calorie counting would lead us to conclude that it does work . . . even if it's no more scientific than standing in a pentagram painted in blood on your basement floor, and sacrificing a virgin goat.
Maybe calorie counting works by placebo effect, simply because We Believe.
(I'm pretty sure it fails for some because they don't.)
So basically if one does not use CICO they get put in a coffin to be buried or cremated?
One does not "use" CICO. CICO is simply the equation that describes energy balance. Methods of achieving energy balance, i.e. calorie counting and/or keto, etc. are not CICO.
I think this about EIEO is basically the same as CICO perhaps? They talk about energy imbalance in humans and get into some actual causes of energy imbalances.
https://nhlbi.nih.gov/health/health-topics/topics/obe/causes
Your source states that if you eat more calories than you burn you will gain weight. I'm glad you seem to agree. As for the genetic disorders listed that cause overweight or obesity, they impact a tiny percentage of the world's population:
Cohen syndrome: diagnosed in less than 1,000 people worldwide
Bardet-Biedl syndrome: 1 in 140,000-160,000 worldwide
Prader-Willi syndrome: 1 in 10,000-30,000 worldwide
Alstrom syndrome: Less than 1,000 people worldwide
ETA: endocrine disorders:
Hypothyroid: 1 in 3,000-4,000 people
Cushing disease: 10-15 people per million
@3bambi3 everyone that logs on to MFP knows that if you eat more calories than you burn you will gain weight.
Look at that! And only 19 short pages for you to agree with the original post.
You spoke too soon! Lol
I take it back. I take it all back. I've been lying...I lost weight using the magic macro.
@GaleHawkins You are what is harmful to new MFP members. New and veteran MFP members alike are best served by taking personal responsibility for their behaviors and their weight and using the CICO equation to figure out a more appropriate balance. If people believe that it's their metabolism, their genes, the fact that they didn't "eat this, not that" then they will continue to gain weight under the misguided belief that it's not their fault and they can't do anything to change it. That is what's "harmful".
A deep irony, in my opinion, is that people like Gale do have useful information that could help newbies. Gale, for example, seems to have found a personal route to satiation and reduction of cravings that is unusual, even idiosyncratic, and that took research and experimentation to identify.
If the message were more like "when it comes to satiation and cravings, everyone is different, and here's what I had to go through to find the unusual set of things that work for me", I think that could be quite helpful. Some of the keto fans do this, and I believe they are helpful to newbies as those folks seek a sustainable way of eating (WOE) for themselves.
It's the argument that "what works for me works for everyone, 'science' proves it, so you need to agree" that becomes an issue.
I'm a long-time (4+ decade) vegetarian who buys mostly one-ingredient foods, cooks them at home, and eats 10+ servings of veggies and fruit every day. I could find whacky web sites that stump for that WOE (it would be easy), plus even a few peer-reviewed studies that support bits of it; argue that everyone must eat My Way; and suggest that there's a huge meat-y, multi-ingredient food, restaurant-based, anti-vegetable conspiracy that prevents people from eating "right"; and that they could succeed if they would only ignore the crazy "eat all junk food within your calories and you can lose weight" CICO people.
But I don't do that. Because it would be stoopid. Also unhelpful.23 -
nutmegoreo wrote: »janejellyroll wrote: »mburgess458 wrote: »GaleHawkins wrote: »Tacklewasher wrote: »GaleHawkins wrote: »GaleHawkins wrote: »GaleHawkins wrote: »geneticsteacher wrote: »GaleHawkins wrote: »Repeating: CICO is not calorie counting. You need not count, calculate, or (in the normal sense of the word) estimate calories in order to use CICO to lose weight. You need not know how many calories you eat. You need not know how many calories you burn. You cannot lose weight without 'using CICO'. Or gain weight, or maintain weight, for that matter. It's trivially true.
However . . . employing it conciously and intentionally helps some people. A lot. Whether they count calories, or not.
The arguments here about whether CO (or CI) are knowable, precise, accurate, etc., have more to do with whether calorie counting works. The many people who are successful here on MFP by using calorie counting would lead us to conclude that it does work . . . even if it's no more scientific than standing in a pentagram painted in blood on your basement floor, and sacrificing a virgin goat.
Maybe calorie counting works by placebo effect, simply because We Believe.
(I'm pretty sure it fails for some because they don't.)
So basically if one does not use CICO they get put in a coffin to be buried or cremated?
One does not "use" CICO. CICO is simply the equation that describes energy balance. Methods of achieving energy balance, i.e. calorie counting and/or keto, etc. are not CICO.
I think this about EIEO is basically the same as CICO perhaps? They talk about energy imbalance in humans and get into some actual causes of energy imbalances.
https://nhlbi.nih.gov/health/health-topics/topics/obe/causes
Your source states that if you eat more calories than you burn you will gain weight. I'm glad you seem to agree. As for the genetic disorders listed that cause overweight or obesity, they impact a tiny percentage of the world's population:
Cohen syndrome: diagnosed in less than 1,000 people worldwide
Bardet-Biedl syndrome: 1 in 140,000-160,000 worldwide
Prader-Willi syndrome: 1 in 10,000-30,000 worldwide
Alstrom syndrome: Less than 1,000 people worldwide
ETA: endocrine disorders:
Hypothyroid: 1 in 3,000-4,000 people
Cushing disease: 10-15 people per million
@3bambi3 everyone that logs on to MFP knows that if you eat more calories than you burn you will gain weight.
Look at that! And only 19 short pages for you to agree with the original post.
@A_Rene86 based on professionals sources in links posted in this thread I personally see the original post to be mainly fake news that can be harmful new MFP members and the cause of MFP owners in general.
And you would be wrong.
So very very wrong.
But I must say, you take majoring in the minors/not seeing the forest for the trees to a whole new level.
Then post links based on science that prove me wrong!
Please say what your thoughts are? That CICO doesn't apply to some people? Or just that CICO doesn't explain why people over or under eat?
How about your post professional sources that prove your thoughts? Why do we have to prove you are wrong? I believe I lost weight because of the purple unicorn that follows me around. Prove me wrong and cite at least 3 professionals.mburgess458 wrote: »GaleHawkins wrote: »Tacklewasher wrote: »GaleHawkins wrote: »GaleHawkins wrote: »GaleHawkins wrote: »geneticsteacher wrote: »GaleHawkins wrote: »Repeating: CICO is not calorie counting. You need not count, calculate, or (in the normal sense of the word) estimate calories in order to use CICO to lose weight. You need not know how many calories you eat. You need not know how many calories you burn. You cannot lose weight without 'using CICO'. Or gain weight, or maintain weight, for that matter. It's trivially true.
However . . . employing it conciously and intentionally helps some people. A lot. Whether they count calories, or not.
The arguments here about whether CO (or CI) are knowable, precise, accurate, etc., have more to do with whether calorie counting works. The many people who are successful here on MFP by using calorie counting would lead us to conclude that it does work . . . even if it's no more scientific than standing in a pentagram painted in blood on your basement floor, and sacrificing a virgin goat.
Maybe calorie counting works by placebo effect, simply because We Believe.
(I'm pretty sure it fails for some because they don't.)
So basically if one does not use CICO they get put in a coffin to be buried or cremated?
One does not "use" CICO. CICO is simply the equation that describes energy balance. Methods of achieving energy balance, i.e. calorie counting and/or keto, etc. are not CICO.
I think this about EIEO is basically the same as CICO perhaps? They talk about energy imbalance in humans and get into some actual causes of energy imbalances.
https://nhlbi.nih.gov/health/health-topics/topics/obe/causes
Your source states that if you eat more calories than you burn you will gain weight. I'm glad you seem to agree. As for the genetic disorders listed that cause overweight or obesity, they impact a tiny percentage of the world's population:
Cohen syndrome: diagnosed in less than 1,000 people worldwide
Bardet-Biedl syndrome: 1 in 140,000-160,000 worldwide
Prader-Willi syndrome: 1 in 10,000-30,000 worldwide
Alstrom syndrome: Less than 1,000 people worldwide
ETA: endocrine disorders:
Hypothyroid: 1 in 3,000-4,000 people
Cushing disease: 10-15 people per million
@3bambi3 everyone that logs on to MFP knows that if you eat more calories than you burn you will gain weight.
Look at that! And only 19 short pages for you to agree with the original post.
@A_Rene86 based on professionals sources in links posted in this thread I personally see the original post to be mainly fake news that can be harmful new MFP members and the cause of MFP owners in general.
And you would be wrong.
So very very wrong.
But I must say, you take majoring in the minors/not seeing the forest for the trees to a whole new level.
Then post links based on science that prove me wrong!
Please say what your thoughts are? That CICO doesn't apply to some people? Or just that CICO doesn't explain why people over or under eat?
How about your post professional sources that prove your thoughts? Why do we have to prove you are wrong? I believe I lost weight because of the purple unicorn that follows me around. Prove me wrong and cite at least 3 professionals.
This is ridiculous pseudo-science. I've seen the weight loss unicorn and he's clearly green.
A clear green unicorn? That's just silly now. Everyone knows the only translucent unicorns are the blue ones.makingmark wrote: »WinoGelato wrote: »makingmark wrote: »OP is great, CICO is just math. Yes there are complexities that can go in to determining CI and CO for each individual, but it is always the basis for determining where the energy balance lies and if a person is gaining or losing.
It is amazing we have a thread this long that has really been derailed for the most part by one person trying to turn math into psychology and some really badly formed psychology at that.
Welcome to MFP. You must be new here.
No, just heavily medicated today and was actually thinking a bit too hopefully
That would help :laugh:
@GaleHawkins I don't think your point is as obvious as you seem to think it is. The "research" you are using to make your murky point is suspect at best. Although there are many complicating factors to weight loss, gain, and maintenance, we can only control and influence so much of it. For example, I can't control how many calories are actually absorbed once I consume them (unless by adding additional substances which may improve digestion such as digestive enzymes for medical conditions where this would be appropriate). Just because I can't control those factors, doesn't mean that I should give up on trying to control the ones that are within my power. Focusing on so many of these minor details makes the whole process overwhelming for newcomers and they want to give up before they even get started. All you're doing is smoke and mirrors and making it seem unnecessarily daunting for people who may not know better. You are conflating so many different aspects and then claiming that it's useless.
Amen. I spent much of my teens and early twenties about 20 pounds overweight, all the while blaming my slow metabolism. Finding out that I was not special, and that it was not complicated was a huge relief, because it meant I could do something about it! Trying to factor in all of these insignificant details seriously overcomplicates the issue and leads many people to just say forget it. Personally, I'd rather focus on the aspects I can control and adjust according to my results, over time.
You are desperately attempting to complicate the issue, when the reality is that it's very simple. Why you're so aggressively opposed to logic is beyond me, and frankly of little concern to me, but for the fact that you are confusing new people who need a simple, logical set of steps to get started with.
ETA: That last part is not for you, nutmegoreo, in case that wasn't clear lol.3 -
Tiny_Dancer_in_Pink wrote: »GaleHawkins wrote: »GaleHawkins wrote: »geneticsteacher wrote: »GaleHawkins wrote: »Repeating: CICO is not calorie counting. You need not count, calculate, or (in the normal sense of the word) estimate calories in order to use CICO to lose weight. You need not know how many calories you eat. You need not know how many calories you burn. You cannot lose weight without 'using CICO'. Or gain weight, or maintain weight, for that matter. It's trivially true.
However . . . employing it conciously and intentionally helps some people. A lot. Whether they count calories, or not.
The arguments here about whether CO (or CI) are knowable, precise, accurate, etc., have more to do with whether calorie counting works. The many people who are successful here on MFP by using calorie counting would lead us to conclude that it does work . . . even if it's no more scientific than standing in a pentagram painted in blood on your basement floor, and sacrificing a virgin goat.
Maybe calorie counting works by placebo effect, simply because We Believe.
(I'm pretty sure it fails for some because they don't.)
So basically if one does not use CICO they get put in a coffin to be buried or cremated?
One does not "use" CICO. CICO is simply the equation that describes energy balance. Methods of achieving energy balance, i.e. calorie counting and/or keto, etc. are not CICO.
I think this about EIEO is basically the same as CICO perhaps? They talk about energy imbalance in humans and get into some actual causes of energy imbalances.
https://nhlbi.nih.gov/health/health-topics/topics/obe/causes
Your source states that if you eat more calories than you burn you will gain weight. I'm glad you seem to agree. As for the genetic disorders listed that cause overweight or obesity, they impact a tiny percentage of the world's population:
Cohen syndrome: diagnosed in less than 1,000 people worldwide
Bardet-Biedl syndrome: 1 in 140,000-160,000 worldwide
Prader-Willi syndrome: 1 in 10,000-30,000 worldwide
Alstrom syndrome: Less than 1,000 people worldwide
ETA: endocrine disorders:
Hypothyroid: 1 in 3,000-4,000 people
Cushing disease: 10-15 people per million
@3bambi3 everyone that logs on to MFP knows that if you eat more calories than you burn you will gain weight.
Look at that! And only 19 short pages for you to agree with the original post.
You spoke too soon! Lol
I take it back. I take it all back. I've been lying...I lost weight using the magic macro.
@GaleHawkins You are what is harmful to new MFP members. New and veteran MFP members alike are best served by taking personal responsibility for their behaviors and their weight and using the CICO equation to figure out a more appropriate balance. If people believe that it's their metabolism, their genes, the fact that they didn't "eat this, not that" then they will continue to gain weight under the misguided belief that it's not their fault and they can't do anything to change it. That is what's "harmful".
A deep irony, in my opinion, is that people like Gale do have useful information that could help newbies. Gale, for example, seems to have found a personal route to satiation and reduction of cravings that is unusual, even idiosyncratic, and that took research and experimentation to identify.
If the message were more like "when it comes to satiation and cravings, everyone is different, and here's what I had to go through to find the unusual set of things that work for me", I think that could be quite helpful. Some of the keto fans do this, and I believe they are helpful to newbies as those folks seek a sustainable way of eating (WOE) for themselves.
It's the argument that "what works for me works for everyone, 'science' proves it, so you need to agree" that becomes an issue.
I'm a long-time (4+ decade) vegetarian who buys mostly one-ingredient foods, cooks them at home, and eats 10+ servings of veggies and fruit every day. I could find whacky web sites that stump for that WOE (it would be easy), plus even a few peer-reviewed studies that support bits of it; argue that everyone must eat My Way; and suggest that there's a huge meat-y, multi-ingredient food, restaurant-based, anti-vegetable conspiracy that prevents people from eating "right"; and that they could succeed if they would only ignore the crazy "eat all junk food within your calories and you can lose weight" CICO people.
But I don't do that. Because it would be stoopid. Also unhelpful.
You make a really good point, @AnnPT77 . I agree -I don't doubt that Gale possesses some knowledge that could be useful to newcomers in an anecdotal sense, but this insistence on disproving a scientific equation in order to support his own claims is ridiculous and frankly, downright arrogant.8 -
GaleHawkins wrote: »Next to no one plans to become obese. To become seriously overweight it is my take of reading research one must FIRST develop a health issue that leads to overeating. It may have a physical or mental aspect or both. I expect 100% of obese people have a Leaking Gut issue. When that dam starts leaking it will be downhill from there until the leaking gut can recover by stopping the eating of foods that may have initially started the leaking.
I will work to get you the professional sources again that explain what is incorrect about the original post.
Thanks
I really do not believe this is true for the vast majority of us.
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Tiny_Dancer_in_Pink wrote: »GaleHawkins wrote: »GaleHawkins wrote: »geneticsteacher wrote: »GaleHawkins wrote: »Repeating: CICO is not calorie counting. You need not count, calculate, or (in the normal sense of the word) estimate calories in order to use CICO to lose weight. You need not know how many calories you eat. You need not know how many calories you burn. You cannot lose weight without 'using CICO'. Or gain weight, or maintain weight, for that matter. It's trivially true.
However . . . employing it conciously and intentionally helps some people. A lot. Whether they count calories, or not.
The arguments here about whether CO (or CI) are knowable, precise, accurate, etc., have more to do with whether calorie counting works. The many people who are successful here on MFP by using calorie counting would lead us to conclude that it does work . . . even if it's no more scientific than standing in a pentagram painted in blood on your basement floor, and sacrificing a virgin goat.
Maybe calorie counting works by placebo effect, simply because We Believe.
(I'm pretty sure it fails for some because they don't.)
So basically if one does not use CICO they get put in a coffin to be buried or cremated?
One does not "use" CICO. CICO is simply the equation that describes energy balance. Methods of achieving energy balance, i.e. calorie counting and/or keto, etc. are not CICO.
I think this about EIEO is basically the same as CICO perhaps? They talk about energy imbalance in humans and get into some actual causes of energy imbalances.
https://nhlbi.nih.gov/health/health-topics/topics/obe/causes
Your source states that if you eat more calories than you burn you will gain weight. I'm glad you seem to agree. As for the genetic disorders listed that cause overweight or obesity, they impact a tiny percentage of the world's population:
Cohen syndrome: diagnosed in less than 1,000 people worldwide
Bardet-Biedl syndrome: 1 in 140,000-160,000 worldwide
Prader-Willi syndrome: 1 in 10,000-30,000 worldwide
Alstrom syndrome: Less than 1,000 people worldwide
ETA: endocrine disorders:
Hypothyroid: 1 in 3,000-4,000 people
Cushing disease: 10-15 people per million
@3bambi3 everyone that logs on to MFP knows that if you eat more calories than you burn you will gain weight.
Look at that! And only 19 short pages for you to agree with the original post.
You spoke too soon! Lol
I take it back. I take it all back. I've been lying...I lost weight using the magic macro.
@GaleHawkins You are what is harmful to new MFP members. New and veteran MFP members alike are best served by taking personal responsibility for their behaviors and their weight and using the CICO equation to figure out a more appropriate balance. If people believe that it's their metabolism, their genes, the fact that they didn't "eat this, not that" then they will continue to gain weight under the misguided belief that it's not their fault and they can't do anything to change it. That is what's "harmful".
A deep irony, in my opinion, is that people like Gale do have useful information that could help newbies. Gale, for example, seems to have found a personal route to satiation and reduction of cravings that is unusual, even idiosyncratic, and that took research and experimentation to identify.
If the message were more like "when it comes to satiation and cravings, everyone is different, and here's what I had to go through to find the unusual set of things that work for me", I think that could be quite helpful. Some of the keto fans do this, and I believe they are helpful to newbies as those folks seek a sustainable way of eating (WOE) for themselves.
It's the argument that "what works for me works for everyone, 'science' proves it, so you need to agree" that becomes an issue.
I'm a long-time (4+ decade) vegetarian who buys mostly one-ingredient foods, cooks them at home, and eats 10+ servings of veggies and fruit every day. I could find whacky web sites that stump for that WOE (it would be easy), plus even a few peer-reviewed studies that support bits of it; argue that everyone must eat My Way; and suggest that there's a huge meat-y, multi-ingredient food, restaurant-based, anti-vegetable conspiracy that prevents people from eating "right"; and that they could succeed if they would only ignore the crazy "eat all junk food within your calories and you can lose weight" CICO people.
But I don't do that. Because it would be stoopid. Also unhelpful.
You make a really good point, @AnnPT77 . I agree -I don't doubt that Gale possesses some knowledge that could be useful to newcomers in an anecdotal sense, but this insistence on disproving a scientific equation in order to support his own claims is ridiculous and frankly, downright arrogant.
I am not trying to disprove any scientific equation in this thread.1 -
geneticsteacher wrote: »GaleHawkins wrote: »Next to no one plans to become obese. To become seriously overweight it is my take of reading research one must FIRST develop a health issue that leads to overeating. It may have a physical or mental aspect or both. I expect 100% of obese people have a Leaking Gut issue. When that dam starts leaking it will be downhill from there until the leaking gut can recover by stopping the eating of foods that may have initially started the leaking.
I will work to get you the professional sources again that explain what is incorrect about the original post.
Thanks
I really do not believe this is true for the vast majority of us.
Yeah...not me. I became overweight when I graduated college and went from being very active...didn't own a car and walked or road my bike everywhere...worked landscape construction, etc to largely sedentary with a desk job. There was no health issue that lead to overeating...I was eating the same way I always ate, my activity level just tanked so I was expending far less energy...that whole CO part of the equation.8 -
GaleHawkins wrote: »
I am not trying to disprove any scientific equation in this thread.
No, you just repeatedly (in every thread) try to argue that CICO is not a scientific equation at all, but just a "concept" of dieting. And then try to complicate it further by saying that because there are variables that go in to it that it is "debunked" and essentially worthless.6 -
amusedmonkey wrote: »Okay, maybe this will go over better:
Tom has 5 apples. He gave Jessica 2 apples. How many apples does Tom have now? What equation represents that exchange?
Maybe Tom ran back to the apple tree and picked 3 more apples after he gave Jessica two, because he's a carb addict.
Or maybe he stole the two apples back from Jessica after he gave them to her because he's a kleptomaniac.
Or maybe a bird swooped down and took one of his remaining apples when he set them down for a minute to re-tie his shoe.
Or maybe he's absent-minded and dropped both of the apples and didn't notice.
Or maybe the exchange of apples took place in a high-crime environment and Tom was robbed of the remaining apples (and his wallet and watch as well) immediately after Jessica walked away with her two apples.
So you see, it's abundantly clear that no equation can adequately explain such a concept because there are a multitude of factors beyond poor Tom's control which completely negate simple mathematics.
Or at least that's the way some of this discussion has gone.
Awesome @AnvilHead you finally factually explained the CICO we are talking about in this thread in a way that I think the rest can grasp finally when it comes to weigh loss.
Thanks so much for pointing out how CICO has so many unknowns. It may be 10% of the weigh loss factors per one speaker I heard lately.1 -
In this thread http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10525971/real-food-diet-is-that-a-thing we see the realization of CICO and calorie counting by the OP in a refreshing way where she saysIt's been 6 weeks since I posted this and even I think I was crazy thinking I could follow my original plan! My new plan is:
1. Eat at a calorie deficit
2. Weigh my food and track my calories
3. Move more
I like my new plan MUCH better, who knew that losing weight was that 'simple'. Why do people (me included) think that you have to make losing weight such an ordeal? This post is what set me straight and set me free! So far I've lost 13 pounds, I have lots more to go but it's a great start!
That is what we should be striving for. Not the minutiae or the argument (the thread has all that) but someone coming to the realization that what they thought "dieting" MUST entail is not true and that weight loss is far simpler than expected. Not easy, but simple.
That thread is the best outcome possible for someone coming and asking questions. This one started out that way, but thanks to one persons argument, has become useless.8 -
GaleHawkins wrote: »
I am not trying to disprove any scientific equation in this thread.
No, you just repeatedly (in every thread) try to argue that CICO is not a scientific equation at all, but just a "concept" of dieting. And then try to complicate it further by saying that because there are variables that go in to it that it is "debunked" and essentially worthless.
If CICO is a valid scientific equation please then just write it out fully and post it here in this tread.
https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/534182/how-to-build-a-mathematical-formula1 -
GaleHawkins wrote: »GaleHawkins wrote: »
I am not trying to disprove any scientific equation in this thread.
No, you just repeatedly (in every thread) try to argue that CICO is not a scientific equation at all, but just a "concept" of dieting. And then try to complicate it further by saying that because there are variables that go in to it that it is "debunked" and essentially worthless.
If CICO is a valid scientific equation please then just write it out fully and post it here.
https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/534182/how-to-build-a-mathematical-formula
Dr. Kevin Hall and et, already wrote it out and put it in a paper. But feel free to ignore that if you don't want to see actual science.12 -
GaleHawkins wrote: »Thanks so much for pointing out how CICO has so many unknowns. It may be 10% of the weigh loss factors per one speaker I heard lately.
I don't think anybody isn't aware that CICO has unknown values. Pointing it out shouldn't be surprising to anyone.
We still don't know how gravity works. Maybe energy warps space and time, or maybe there are tiny little things called gravitrons. We just don't know. But we can still build airplanes and fly them across oceans and land them safely. We can even send people to the moon and bring them home in one piece.
You're over-playing your hand.8 -
GaleHawkins wrote: »GaleHawkins wrote: »
I am not trying to disprove any scientific equation in this thread.
No, you just repeatedly (in every thread) try to argue that CICO is not a scientific equation at all, but just a "concept" of dieting. And then try to complicate it further by saying that because there are variables that go in to it that it is "debunked" and essentially worthless.
If CICO is a valid scientific equation please then just write it out fully and post it here in this tread.
https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/534182/how-to-build-a-mathematical-formula
The paper with the mathematical formula has been posted twice already in this thread.
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GottaBurnEmAll wrote: »GaleHawkins wrote: »GaleHawkins wrote: »
I am not trying to disprove any scientific equation in this thread.
No, you just repeatedly (in every thread) try to argue that CICO is not a scientific equation at all, but just a "concept" of dieting. And then try to complicate it further by saying that because there are variables that go in to it that it is "debunked" and essentially worthless.
If CICO is a valid scientific equation please then just write it out fully and post it here in this tread.
https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/534182/how-to-build-a-mathematical-formula
The paper with the mathematical formula has been posted twice already in this thread.
And considering Dr. Hall is one of the leading researches in metabolism, my bets are on him over pretty much anyone.10 -
This seems to be the most detailed one I can find:
Energy In (corrected for digestion) = (BMR/RMR + TEF + TEA + SPA/NEAT) + Change in Body Stores
http://www.bodyrecomposition.com/fat-loss/the-energy-balance-equation.html/
Clearly there are variables, but that doesn't automatically make it invalid or "debunked"6 -
GottaBurnEmAll wrote: »GaleHawkins wrote: »GaleHawkins wrote: »
I am not trying to disprove any scientific equation in this thread.
No, you just repeatedly (in every thread) try to argue that CICO is not a scientific equation at all, but just a "concept" of dieting. And then try to complicate it further by saying that because there are variables that go in to it that it is "debunked" and essentially worthless.
If CICO is a valid scientific equation please then just write it out fully and post it here in this tread.
https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/534182/how-to-build-a-mathematical-formula
The paper with the mathematical formula has been posted twice already in this thread.
And considering Dr. Hall is one of the leading researches in metabolism, my bets are on him over pretty much anyone.
Agreed.
Gale, here's the link for the CICO equation:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2266991/3 -
GottaBurnEmAll wrote: »GaleHawkins wrote: »GaleHawkins wrote: »
I am not trying to disprove any scientific equation in this thread.
No, you just repeatedly (in every thread) try to argue that CICO is not a scientific equation at all, but just a "concept" of dieting. And then try to complicate it further by saying that because there are variables that go in to it that it is "debunked" and essentially worthless.
If CICO is a valid scientific equation please then just write it out fully and post it here in this tread.
https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/534182/how-to-build-a-mathematical-formula
The paper with the mathematical formula has been posted twice already in this thread.
And considering Dr. Hall is one of the leading researches in metabolism, my bets are on him over pretty much anyone.
Oh one more thing about Dr. Hall -- wasn't his PhD in physics? IIRC, he got into metabolism and nutrition from being asked to design a predictive model for a company that had something to do with diabetes.
If anyone in all of these discussions is going to understand closed systems and how energy balance works in them, it would be him.4 -
GottaBurnEmAll wrote: »GottaBurnEmAll wrote: »GaleHawkins wrote: »GaleHawkins wrote: »
I am not trying to disprove any scientific equation in this thread.
No, you just repeatedly (in every thread) try to argue that CICO is not a scientific equation at all, but just a "concept" of dieting. And then try to complicate it further by saying that because there are variables that go in to it that it is "debunked" and essentially worthless.
If CICO is a valid scientific equation please then just write it out fully and post it here in this tread.
https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/534182/how-to-build-a-mathematical-formula
The paper with the mathematical formula has been posted twice already in this thread.
And considering Dr. Hall is one of the leading researches in metabolism, my bets are on him over pretty much anyone.
Oh one more thing about Dr. Hall -- wasn't his PhD in physics? IIRC, he got into metabolism and nutrition from being asked to design a predictive model for a company that had something to do with diabetes.
If anyone in all of these discussions is going to understand closed systems and how energy balance works in them, it would be him.
"Dr. Kevin Hall received his Ph.D. in Physics from McGill University and is now a tenured Senior Investigator at the National Institute of Diabetes & Digestive & Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), one of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda MD. His main research interests are the regulation of food intake, macronutrient metabolism, energy balance, and body weight. Dr. Hall’s laboratory performs experiments in humans and rodents and develops mathematical models and computer simulations to help design, predict, and interpret the experimental data. Dr. Hall is the recipient of the NIH Director’s Award, the NIDDK Director’s Award, the Lilly Scientific Achievement Award from The Obesity Society, the Guyton Award for Excellence in Integrative Physiology from the American Society of Physiology, and his award-winning Body Weight Planner (http://BWPlanner.niddk.nih.gov) has been used by millions of people to help predict how diet and physical activity dynamically interact to affect human body weight. "
ETA: But looking at his bio, it doesn't look like he has any experience. So his work should be thrown out the door.11 -
If I go run a mile after work, it's unknown how long it'll take me because my pace tonight is unknown at this point. I just debunked running. Now we know running isn't a thing people actually do, it's just a concept.
You heard it here first, folks.25 -
GaleHawkins wrote: »mburgess458 wrote: »GaleHawkins wrote: »Tacklewasher wrote: »GaleHawkins wrote: »GaleHawkins wrote: »GaleHawkins wrote: »geneticsteacher wrote: »GaleHawkins wrote: »Repeating: CICO is not calorie counting. You need not count, calculate, or (in the normal sense of the word) estimate calories in order to use CICO to lose weight. You need not know how many calories you eat. You need not know how many calories you burn. You cannot lose weight without 'using CICO'. Or gain weight, or maintain weight, for that matter. It's trivially true.
However . . . employing it conciously and intentionally helps some people. A lot. Whether they count calories, or not.
The arguments here about whether CO (or CI) are knowable, precise, accurate, etc., have more to do with whether calorie counting works. The many people who are successful here on MFP by using calorie counting would lead us to conclude that it does work . . . even if it's no more scientific than standing in a pentagram painted in blood on your basement floor, and sacrificing a virgin goat.
Maybe calorie counting works by placebo effect, simply because We Believe.
(I'm pretty sure it fails for some because they don't.)
So basically if one does not use CICO they get put in a coffin to be buried or cremated?
One does not "use" CICO. CICO is simply the equation that describes energy balance. Methods of achieving energy balance, i.e. calorie counting and/or keto, etc. are not CICO.
I think this about EIEO is basically the same as CICO perhaps? They talk about energy imbalance in humans and get into some actual causes of energy imbalances.
https://nhlbi.nih.gov/health/health-topics/topics/obe/causes
Your source states that if you eat more calories than you burn you will gain weight. I'm glad you seem to agree. As for the genetic disorders listed that cause overweight or obesity, they impact a tiny percentage of the world's population:
Cohen syndrome: diagnosed in less than 1,000 people worldwide
Bardet-Biedl syndrome: 1 in 140,000-160,000 worldwide
Prader-Willi syndrome: 1 in 10,000-30,000 worldwide
Alstrom syndrome: Less than 1,000 people worldwide
ETA: endocrine disorders:
Hypothyroid: 1 in 3,000-4,000 people
Cushing disease: 10-15 people per million
@3bambi3 everyone that logs on to MFP knows that if you eat more calories than you burn you will gain weight.
Look at that! And only 19 short pages for you to agree with the original post.
@A_Rene86 based on professionals sources in links posted in this thread I personally see the original post to be mainly fake news that can be harmful new MFP members and the cause of MFP owners in general.
And you would be wrong.
So very very wrong.
But I must say, you take majoring in the minors/not seeing the forest for the trees to a whole new level.
Then post links based on science that prove me wrong!
Please say what your thoughts are? That CICO doesn't apply to some people? Or just that CICO doesn't explain why people over or under eat?
How about your post professional sources that prove your thoughts? Why do we have to prove you are wrong? I believe I lost weight because of the purple unicorn that follows me around. Prove me wrong and cite at least 3 professionals.
@mburgess458 I will repost the already posted professional sources that mirror my own readings on the subject so it does not require any clicking for a summary ASAP.
You or no one has to prove me wrong but you will not find professional sources to prove other professional sources wrong that I have linked to above.
CICO is a concept that applies to Closed Loop systems say like a car engine. A calorie is a unit of measure for sure but it does not tell one how much energy went into the bloodstream and how much of that energy was burned by the cells of our body. Some of the calories/energy that I eat pass out of my nose and out through my urine since I more or less stay in a state of nutritional ketosis for example.
No one posting here can even compute their CICO so CICO as used on MFP forums is a concept not science as far as dieting goes. However one can determine net CICO only after the fact by just weighing themselves from time to time under the same conditions each time and record their weight from time to time.
Yes it is true that CICO does not explain why people over or under eat. CICO is a favorite tool of some Fat Shamers.
Next to no one plans to become obese. To become seriously overweight it is my take of reading research one must FIRST develop a health issue that leads to overeating. It may have a physical or mental aspect or both. I expect 100% of obese people have a Leaking Gut issue. When that dam starts leaking it will be downhill from there until the leaking gut can recover by stopping the eating of foods that may have initially started the leaking.
I will work to get you the professional sources again that explain what is incorrect about the original post.
Thanks
Everything you are saying are just adjustments to the CI or the CO. Per your example, you eat 2,000 calories but 200 pass out your nose or urine... guess what? Your CI was 1,800. On the CO side there are issues that cause people to burn more or less than average. An estimator might say your CO is 2,000 per day but you have some physical issue causing you to burn 200 fewer calories per day... guess what? Your CO is 1,800. You have a "leaky gut"? Guess what? That just means your CI and CO are different than someone who doesn't have that issue.
At the end of the day you will have a certain number of calories in and burn a certain number of calories. It won't be exactly what an estimator says. But if you have more calories going into your system than you are burning you will gain weight.
BTW, a car engine has the same type of issues. The manufacturer might say it gets 30 mpg. Your car might not be running efficiently so it will only get 28 mpg... or maybe the weather is very humid so it runs less efficiently. The gas you buy might not be 87 octane, perhaps someone at the refinery screwed up and it's only 85 so the energy you put into your car might not be what you thought. That doesn't invalidate the calculation of mpg. It just makes it tougher to predict.6 -
So the whole argument is (Gale) that the prediction isn't 100%? That's your argument?
It doesn't matter. IT DOESN'T MATTER.10 -
cmriverside wrote: »So the whole argument is (Gale) that the prediction isn't 100%? That's your argument?
It doesn't matter. IT DOESN'T MATTER.
No that is not my argument.
My statement is starting a thread addressed to new MFP forum members that contains misleading/false statements when it comes to diet health can be harmful to new members as well a the mission goal in general.
We know CICO is not a math formula or someone would have posted it by now.
No one here even knows their own CI or CO and that does not matter when it comes to losing/maintaining/gaining weight. If CO is the same daily then we could just make a change in the calories we eat or the macro we eat since all calories are not the same when consumed a food for the human body. CO could be the variable as well.
Using an accurate set of bathroom scales is all that is needed when thinking about the concept of CICO that has no functional formula to compute.
CICO in no way teaches us how we lost our natural ability to eat to maintain a healthy weight that occurred before we became obese or how to fix it.
The main reason most people that lose weight will have a 100%+ regain in the following years is not due to CICO concept failure but will be due to understand WHY and HOW they had gained the weight in the first place that they just lost.
All I am saying is do not mislead new MFP forum members with misleading and false info that would never stand up in most courtrooms if challenged. There are good things that can be helpful to all members that can be shared about why we gain weight and how we can lose weight and never regain it.
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GaleHawkins wrote: »We know CICO is not a math formula or someone would have posted it by now.
It's been posted several times in this very thread.9 -
GaleHawkins wrote: »cmriverside wrote: »So the whole argument is (Gale) that the prediction isn't 100%? That's your argument?
It doesn't matter. IT DOESN'T MATTER.
No that is not my argument.
My statement is starting a thread addressed to new MFP forum members that contains misleading/false statements when it comes to diet health can be harmful to new members as well a the mission goal in general.
We know CICO is not a math formula or someone would have posted it by now.
No one here even knows their own CI or CO and that does not matter when it comes to losing/maintaining/gaining weight. If CO is the same daily then we could just make a change in the calories we eat or the macro we eat since all calories are not the same when consumed a food for the human body. CO could be the variable as well.
Using an accurate set of bathroom scales is all that is needed when thinking about the concept of CICO that has no functional formula to compute.
CICO in no way teaches us how we lost our natural ability to eat to maintain a healthy weight that occurred before we became obese or how to fix it.
The main reason most people that lose weight will have a 100%+ regain in the following years is not due to CICO concept failure but will be due to understand WHY and HOW they had gained the weight in the first place that they just lost.
All I am saying is do not mislead new MFP forum members with misleading and false info that would never stand up in most courtrooms if challenged. There are good things that can be helpful to all members that can be shared about why we gain weight and how we can lose weight and never regain it.
Pretty ridiculous argument. Dietary advice doesn't go to courtrooms. It's not a law.
And I can guarantee you, that I have helped more people than most on this board and have done a significant amounts of one on one work with members all base done CICO as done over the law of averages. It does NOT need to be exact. It needs to be consistent, that is it.
And you know why we got fat.. it's because we ate too much fat.12 -
GaleHawkins wrote: »cmriverside wrote: »So the whole argument is (Gale) that the prediction isn't 100%? That's your argument?
It doesn't matter. IT DOESN'T MATTER.
No that is not my argument.
My statement is starting a thread addressed to new MFP forum members that contains misleading/false statements when it comes to diet health can be harmful to new members as well a the mission goal in general.
We know CICO is not a math formula or someone would have posted it by now.
No one here even knows their own CI or CO and that does not matter when it comes to losing/maintaining/gaining weight. If CO is the same daily then we could just make a change in the calories we eat or the macro we eat since all calories are not the same when consumed a food for the human body. CO could be the variable as well.
Using an accurate set of bathroom scales is all that is needed when thinking about the concept of CICO that has no functional formula to compute.
CICO in no way teaches us how we lost our natural ability to eat to maintain a healthy weight that occurred before we became obese or how to fix it.
The main reason most people that lose weight will have a 100%+ regain in the following years is not due to CICO concept failure but will be due to understand WHY and HOW they had gained the weight in the first place that they just lost.
All I am saying is do not mislead new MFP forum members with misleading and false info that would never stand up in most courtrooms if challenged. There are good things that can be helpful to all members that can be shared about why we gain weight and how we can lose weight and never regain it.
THE MATH FORMULA IS CICO.
If you are maintaining weight: CI = CO
If you are losing weight: CI < CO
If you are gaining weight: CI > CO
How is that not a formula?14 -
GaleHawkins wrote: »cmriverside wrote: »So the whole argument is (Gale) that the prediction isn't 100%? That's your argument?
It doesn't matter. IT DOESN'T MATTER.
No that is not my argument.
My statement is starting a thread addressed to new MFP forum members that contains misleading/false statements when it comes to diet health can be harmful to new members as well a the mission goal in general.
We know CICO is not a math formula or someone would have posted it by now.
No one here even knows their own CI or CO and that does not matter when it comes to losing/maintaining/gaining weight. If CO is the same daily then we could just make a change in the calories we eat or the macro we eat since all calories are not the same when consumed a food for the human body. CO could be the variable as well.
Using an accurate set of bathroom scales is all that is needed when thinking about the concept of CICO that has no functional formula to compute.
CICO in no way teaches us how we lost our natural ability to eat to maintain a healthy weight that occurred before we became obese or how to fix it.
The main reason most people that lose weight will have a 100%+ regain in the following years is not due to CICO concept failure but will be due to understand WHY and HOW they had gained the weight in the first place that they just lost.
All I am saying is do not mislead new MFP forum members with misleading and false info that would never stand up in most courtrooms if challenged. There are good things that can be helpful to all members that can be shared about why we gain weight and how we can lose weight and never regain it.
The only misleading/false statements here are yours. This is a post about the mathematics of weight loss, not a thread on Gale Hawkins' feels on weight loss, so take your armchair psychology elsewhere. You got fat because you ate too much like all the rest of us. While you continue shirking your responsibility for that, I'll be over here adjusting my energy balance and achieving my goals.31 -
GaleHawkins wrote: »cmriverside wrote: »So the whole argument is (Gale) that the prediction isn't 100%? That's your argument?
It doesn't matter. IT DOESN'T MATTER.
No that is not my argument.
My statement is starting a thread addressed to new MFP forum members that contains misleading/false statements when it comes to diet health can be harmful to new members as well a the mission goal in general.
We know CICO is not a math formula or someone would have posted it by now.
No one here even knows their own CI or CO and that does not matter when it comes to losing/maintaining/gaining weight. If CO is the same daily then we could just make a change in the calories we eat or the macro we eat since all calories are not the same when consumed a food for the human body. CO could be the variable as well.
Using an accurate set of bathroom scales is all that is needed when thinking about the concept of CICO that has no functional formula to compute.
CICO in no way teaches us how we lost our natural ability to eat to maintain a healthy weight that occurred before we became obese or how to fix it.
The main reason most people that lose weight will have a 100%+ regain in the following years is not due to CICO concept failure but will be due to understand WHY and HOW they had gained the weight in the first place that they just lost.
All I am saying is do not mislead new MFP forum members with misleading and false info that would never stand up in most courtrooms if challenged. There are good things that can be helpful to all members that can be shared about why we gain weight and how we can lose weight and never regain it.
Pretty ridiculous argument. Dietary advice doesn't go to courtrooms. It's not a law.
And I can guarantee you, that I have helped more people than most on this board and have done a significant amounts of one on one work with members all base done CICO as done over the law of averages. It does NOT need to be exact. It needs to be consistent, that is it.
And you know why we got fat.. it's because we ate too much fat.
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cmriverside wrote: »GaleHawkins wrote: »cmriverside wrote: »So the whole argument is (Gale) that the prediction isn't 100%? That's your argument?
It doesn't matter. IT DOESN'T MATTER.
No that is not my argument.
My statement is starting a thread addressed to new MFP forum members that contains misleading/false statements when it comes to diet health can be harmful to new members as well a the mission goal in general.
We know CICO is not a math formula or someone would have posted it by now.
No one here even knows their own CI or CO and that does not matter when it comes to losing/maintaining/gaining weight. If CO is the same daily then we could just make a change in the calories we eat or the macro we eat since all calories are not the same when consumed a food for the human body. CO could be the variable as well.
Using an accurate set of bathroom scales is all that is needed when thinking about the concept of CICO that has no functional formula to compute.
CICO in no way teaches us how we lost our natural ability to eat to maintain a healthy weight that occurred before we became obese or how to fix it.
The main reason most people that lose weight will have a 100%+ regain in the following years is not due to CICO concept failure but will be due to understand WHY and HOW they had gained the weight in the first place that they just lost.
All I am saying is do not mislead new MFP forum members with misleading and false info that would never stand up in most courtrooms if challenged. There are good things that can be helpful to all members that can be shared about why we gain weight and how we can lose weight and never regain it.
Pretty ridiculous argument. Dietary advice doesn't go to courtrooms. It's not a law.
And I can guarantee you, that I have helped more people than most on this board and have done a significant amounts of one on one work with members all base done CICO as done over the law of averages. It does NOT need to be exact. It needs to be consistent, that is it.
And you know why we got fat.. it's because we ate too much fat.
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GaleHawkins wrote: »cmriverside wrote: »So the whole argument is (Gale) that the prediction isn't 100%? That's your argument?
It doesn't matter. IT DOESN'T MATTER.
No that is not my argument.
My statement is starting a thread addressed to new MFP forum members that contains misleading/false statements when it comes to diet health can be harmful to new members as well a the mission goal in general.
We know CICO is not a math formula or someone would have posted it by now.
No one here even knows their own CI or CO and that does not matter when it comes to losing/maintaining/gaining weight. If CO is the same daily then we could just make a change in the calories we eat or the macro we eat since all calories are not the same when consumed a food for the human body. CO could be the variable as well.
Using an accurate set of bathroom scales is all that is needed when thinking about the concept of CICO that has no functional formula to compute.
CICO in no way teaches us how we lost our natural ability to eat to maintain a healthy weight that occurred before we became obese or how to fix it.
The main reason most people that lose weight will have a 100%+ regain in the following years is not due to CICO concept failure but will be due to understand WHY and HOW they had gained the weight in the first place that they just lost.
All I am saying is do not mislead new MFP forum members with misleading and false info that would never stand up in most courtrooms if challenged. There are good things that can be helpful to all members that can be shared about why we gain weight and how we can lose weight and never regain it.
It has been posted a couple of times already. There are plenty of people who know reliably well what their CI and CO is...mine averages out to be around 2,700 - 3,000 calorie per day depending on the time of year and training schedule...it doesn't have to be some exact thing and you don't have to know every variable. If I eat around 2,500 calories per day I will lose about 1 Lb per week and did so consistently.
Not everyone has "issues" related to food or whatever that requires some deep psychological analysis to understand...for a lot of people, it's pretty straight forward. As I've mentioned here multiple times...I gained weight when I went from being a very active college student to taking a desk job...I didn't have some compulsive overeating habit...my activity level just dropped...ya know, part of that whole CO aspect of the equation.
I've maintained for 4 years as of April 15th because my calories coming in are commensurate with my calories going out...really, you are going out of your way to make something pretty simple overly complicated...10 -
GaleHawkins wrote: »cmriverside wrote: »So the whole argument is (Gale) that the prediction isn't 100%? That's your argument?
It doesn't matter. IT DOESN'T MATTER.
No that is not my argument.
My statement is starting a thread addressed to new MFP forum members that contains misleading/false statements when it comes to diet health can be harmful to new members as well a the mission goal in general.
We know CICO is not a math formula or someone would have posted it by now.
No one here even knows their own CI or CO and that does not matter when it comes to losing/maintaining/gaining weight. If CO is the same daily then we could just make a change in the calories we eat or the macro we eat since all calories are not the same when consumed a food for the human body. CO could be the variable as well.
Using an accurate set of bathroom scales is all that is needed when thinking about the concept of CICO that has no functional formula to compute.
CICO in no way teaches us how we lost our natural ability to eat to maintain a healthy weight that occurred before we became obese or how to fix it.
The main reason most people that lose weight will have a 100%+ regain in the following years is not due to CICO concept failure but will be due to understand WHY and HOW they had gained the weight in the first place that they just lost.
All I am saying is do not mislead new MFP forum members with misleading and false info that would never stand up in most courtrooms if challenged. There are good things that can be helpful to all members that can be shared about why we gain weight and how we can lose weight and never regain it.
Physician - heal thyself.
Your problem is one of your own making. There is no "natural ability to eat to maintain a healthy weight". This is not instinctual and a false first principle, so all reasoning you have built upon this foundation is fundamentally flawed.
Organisms eat to survive - every organism will eat to excess to ensure survival as supply is an unknown variable.
The main reason for regained weight is an independent variable. A common theme is competing priorities. Weight management is naturally going to be balanced with any number of other stressors we manage on a daily basis.
You are misleading forum members with irrelevant details and your thought process is more in line with the diet industry.18
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