SH wrote:
To wit: what are you focusing on for weight loss if you aren't focusing on CICO?
False dilemma. I am not arguing against calorie deficit as a necessary condition for weight loss. It's absolutely necessary to achieve a consistent calorie deficit over weeks/months.
I'm arguing against making it sound like that's all you have to do, per the original quote:
"CICO.
thats all there is to it" Like being good at TT involves mastering a lot of skills, being good at maintaining low bodyfat involves lots of skills.
You you don't have to be count calories to achieve good body composition. Humanity went through millennia of people having good body composition before thermodynamics existed as a science, much less was applied to "dieting."
Eat a good diet, and move around a lot, and guess what, your body is a pretty good self-regulator. I understand that those self-regulation mechanisms can get utterly broken at times. And in those cases, counting may be good to help compensate for broken self-regulation. If it works for people, I'm all for it.