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[–] HeckGazer -3 points 4 months ago (11 children)

This is such a fucking stupid infographic, it's just straight up misinformation.

I have done keto, my partner was doing Calorie counting at the time and was curious and did the math for me. I was consuming about 150% of my normal pre-diet Calorie intake and losing 500g per day for a month. CICO is flatout not the mechanic used.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (4 children)

I was consuming about 150% of my normal pre-diet Calorie intake and losing 500g per day for a month. CICO is flatout not the mechanic used.

You are stating that without knowing your calories out, and asserting that the laws of thermodynamics aren't real

Keto works due to two things: 1) proteins and fats are more filling than carbs, and 2) your basal metabolic rate increases when you are in ketosis

[–] HeckGazer -1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

People who say CICO doesn't work are asserting that, at no point did I assert that. I simply stated that CICO isn't the mechanism that keto uses.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

It is but it isn't. CICO is not the whole picture, but it is the foundation of the rest of the picture.

No matter what you eat, if you consume and absorb fewer calories than you burn you will lose weight, whether it be through body fat or body muscle.

That is a known truth.

However, there are many other factors at play right now that every single person that just jumps on the calorie in calorie out bandwagon refuse to wrap their heads around.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I simply stated that CICO isn't the mechanism that keto uses.

It literally is though.

When you are in ketosis your CO increases, so even if your CI stays the same you will now be operating at a deficit

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