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CICO is overrated in my opinion
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My dinner last night and lunch today...1 -
The crazy thread just got closed, and is minus the last 3 pages
Might want to head over there sooner than later if you want to read what's left... 0 -
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diannethegeek wrote: »
It's been split off into a new thread on the debate board.
I'm only on page seven of the split thread and I feel that my brain is beginning to leak out of my ears due to all the "bro math".3 -
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Wynterbourne wrote: »
I'm only on page seven of the split thread and I feel that my brain is beginning to leak out of my ears due to all the "bro math".
I'm surprised his macro percents added up to 100, frankly (even though MFP "helps" with that via error handling).7 -
I'm surprised his macro percents added up to 100, frankly (even though MFP "helps" with that via error handling).
They should have been 33-33-33. Cuz he liked 33.6 -
Was just speaking to a physician who is an obesity expert with years of research behind him.
A woman in the room said she was addicted to high sugar coffee beverages from Starbucks.
He suggested that she try to ween herself off of sugars and make her own coffee and use full fat whipping cream (from a carton) and put in a tsp of ghee (purified butter) in it also. It was found to be very satisfying and the participants had high energy all morning. Labs also had shown cholesterol levels came down significantly.
But no sugar or any artificial sweetners at at not even stevia.
Very interesting!
I like my coffee straight with a little coconut oil mixed in. It gives it a subtle richness and smells fantastic and keeps me satisfied for quite a while.
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I added all of the requests, but a due to lag, a couple ended up denied accidentally as I was clicking
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I'm only up to page 15, but my take on the bible topic is:
I believe in God, but i don't believe in Religion.4 -
Orthodox Jewish here. I do believe that the Bible is factual, but I also agree that it was meant to be an instruction book, not a history book. It is not always chronological. Sometimes it requires additional commentaries to understand. And there are things that I accept on faith that I'll agree seem to fly in the face of current scientific thought. I do believe that there's an explanation out there that can synthesize/harmonize between the two. It'd be pure arrogance on my part to say that because I can't think of one, one doesn't exist.13
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estherdragonbat wrote: »Orthodox Jewish here. I do believe that the Bible is factual, but I also agree that it was meant to be an instruction book, not a history book. It is not always chronological. Sometimes it requires additional commentaries to understand. And there are things that I accept on faith that I'll agree seem to fly in the face of current scientific thought. I do believe that there's an explanation out there that can synthesize/harmonize between the two. It'd be pure arrogance on my part to say that because I can't think of one, one doesn't exist.
Well said. I agree with you. I’ve always thought “if I could wrap my mind around God and all He’s done, He wouldn’t be much of a God, would He?”8 -
I was raised Christian, United Methodist specifically, and my mother was a believer to her bedrock, the kindest and warmest sort, not a rigid or overbearing type. While I think my dad was at heart a deist, he was a bit more of a free thinker.
I was a strong believer into my teens, but began to struggle with doubt. I'm fundamentally rationalist at my core, and that makes faith a viscerally hard sell.
Sometime in my late teens or early twenties, I came to a realization: Whether I believed in a deity or not, my behavior would be exactly the same. I have a very strong sense of ethics and morality (maybe an idiosyncratic one, but strong, and fairly Golden Rule oriented
). To me, my actual actions seemed at least as ethically based as those of the believers around me.
At that moment - and it really was kind of just a moment - I decided I didn't care whether there was a god, and I literally stopped worrying about it.
These days, I remain a committed agnostic. I deeply respect others' faiths, and don't argue with them about metaphysics. It's faith, not logic. I expect others to respect my beliefs, too. I grow big scary metaphorical teeth if they try to convert me. And to the extent I form judgements about people - which I try to keep to a practical minimum - I judge based on actions.
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estherdragonbat wrote: »Orthodox Jewish here. I do believe that the Bible is factual, but I also agree that it was meant to be an instruction book, not a history book. It is not always chronological. Sometimes it requires additional commentaries to understand.
Interesting thoughts. I think large parts of the Hebrew Scriptures (what we Christians call the Old Testament) are historical. I don't think they are 100% accurate (or expect them to be) -- they seem to me more in line with other ancient histories (like Herodotus and Thucydides, among others) in some ways, and to be retellings from later periods based on tradition and so on (and thus we see differences in Chronicles and Samuel/Kings, etc.). None of that ever posed a challenge of faith for me, as I was not brought up thinking that Biblical inspiration meant that books would be written in a different manner than other books and = perfectly factual in a way that matters now vs. like other historical accounts of the time.
What did pose more of a struggle for me is that I think that Biblical inspiration means that they are there for a reason and teach lessons that we should learn (although it may not be straightforward and there may be many different interpretations that are meaningful -- kind of like all the midrash, I suppose). But in some cases it's really hard to understand what a positive moral message would be, and you can see that it's been misused often throughout history to justify things that are not good.
This does not challenge my faith or my belief that the Bible is inspired, but I do think it makes interpretation something that is not as simple as some portray it (not saying that applies to anyone in this thread).2 -
I was raised Christian, United Methodist specifically, and my mother was a believer to her bedrock, the kindest and warmest sort, not a rigid or overbearing type. While I think my dad was at heart a deist, he was a bit more of a free thinker.
I was a strong believer into my teens, but began to struggle with doubt. I'm fundamentally rationalist at my core, and that makes faith a viscerally hard sell.
Sometime in my late teens or early twenties, I came to a realization: Whether I believed in a deity or not, my behavior would be exactly the same. I have a very strong sense of ethics and morality (maybe an idiosyncratic one, but strong, and fairly Golden Rule oriented ). To me, my actual actions seemed at least as ethically based as those of the believers around me.
At that moment - and it really was kind of just a moment - I decided I didn't care whether there was a god, and I literally stopped worrying about it.
These days, I remain a committed agnostic. I deeply respect others' faiths, and don't argue with them about metaphysics. It's faith, not logic. I expect others to respect my beliefs, too. I grow big scary metaphorical teeth if they try to convert me. And to the extent I form judgements about people - which I try to keep to a practical minimum - I judge based on actions.
^That's me to a T, though the timing is different.3 -
CICO is just math used to estimate how much energy you need to support your current body weight, it isn't a plan, it isn't a strategy....it isn't something that you follow....it is a tool one can use as part of a weight loss, gain or fitness strategy.
You can decide you want to gain muscle and decide to do so you are going to eat at a modest surplus....CICO applies. You can decide you want to lose weight and decide you are going to eat at a modest deficit....CICO applies. You can decide you want to maintain your weight but wish to up the amount of exercise and need to find out how much more you should eat....CICO applies.
It is just a tool. It happens though that it is a tool that is very useful for any attempt to regulate or control your body shape or weight. You can opt to not use it but if that is your choice you are making things harder than they need to be really.
Saying CICO is overrated is like saying that math is overrated. I assume what you actually mean is a specific strategy or approach to weight loss is overrated and you have just labeled that as "CICO" for whatever reason.10 -
Aaron_K123 wrote: »...Saying CICO is overrated is like saying that math is overrated. I assume what you actually mean is a specific strategy or approach to weight loss is overrated and you have just labeled that as "CICO" for whatever reason.
It looks like we'll never know what OP actually meant.5 -
moosmum1972 wrote: »
He's not the Messiah he's a very naughty boy
SPLITTER!!!2 -
GottaBurnEmAll wrote: »
^That's me to a T, though the timing is different.
Pretty much me too, with the exception of substituting Lutheran for Methodist.0 -
It looks like we'll never know what OP actually meant.
Given the thread drift, it also looks like we don't really care. 7 -
It's fun to chase rabbits down holes and see where they lead.7
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ladyreva78 wrote: »
*raises hand* I ate a nutritious diet and was fat... Now I eat a (mostly) nutritious diet within my calories limits and I'm losing weight. My blood work has never been better. Divorce from my liver is off the table. Blood glucose is firmly where it's supposed to be.
All thanks to following that totally overrated concept of CICO.
Pssst: I even eat chocolate every day and pizza on a weekly basis because I know it's not the what but the how much that matters for weight loss.
Amen !!7 -
I’m new to MFP and have also noticed that you are attacked when you ever bring up a different point of view . Proves that people only want to hear what their doing is the right and only way.39
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Well, because you're new, I'll explain. There are alot of "lurkers", people who don't post or comment but read the forums. Some of them are new and are liable to take certain ideas, presented with enthusiasm, by a poster and wind up wasting their time, frustrated, and give up in the end. People with experience and knowlege argue against these practices especially cleanses, low calorie diets, and the idea that if you eat "x" you can eat all you want. These are just a few. If you follow for awhile you'll see why. If you have something that is working for you that's great, but before people follow your example they need to be presented with the other side of the coin. Look at the hundreds of posts titled "I'm doing everything right, but can't lose weight". Many of them don't log, for example, or give a high burn on their exercise. There's lots to learn.15
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I’m new to MFP and have also noticed that you are attacked when you ever bring up a different point of view . Proves that people only want to hear what their doing is the right and only way.
You're not being attacked, you're being corrected because what you're saying is completely false on every level.22 -
Snowflake 954 thanks for the way you worded your response. That is how we should debate. Instead of being told you are wrong on every level.11
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I’m new to MFP and have also noticed that you are attacked when you ever bring up a different point of view . Proves that people only want to hear what their doing is the right and only way.
I'm not new to MFP, (3.5 years), current 680 day streak, and many posts. I have learnt many valuable things, through this forum and not once have I been attacked.14 -
Snowflake 954 thanks for the way you worded your response. That is how we should debate. Instead of being told you are wrong on every level.
Maybe you need to look at yourself and what you've posted and ask why you are getting that kind of response. You have posted mostly woo and ignore and deny science based facts presented to you.15
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