[dazag]

I am 178cm tall, and now 65kg, I can easily eat 4KCal several days in a row and not only not gain weight but loose it. It depends on many things, and to just name CICO is absurd. Do you know how calories are measured out of food? Do you then think the body burn the food the same way they burn food? I don't think you know what you are talking about. It's all about hormones, which is related to your environment (inner and outer). How you think, what you put in your body (not only food), how you move, how toxic is your place, the weather, etc

[BizarroLand]

That's the way the body is supposed to work. When you take in too many calories, you body should fill its fat reserves and your muscle and organ glycogen stores, and then ramp up your energy output to burn off the rest, and any that it can't burn off should be shunted out of the body (you can excrete excess blood sugar in urine, for instance).

For obese people, what happens is the body muscles and organs become insulin resistant, but your fat does not, so your body fat is well fed before the rest of your body (other than your vital organs).

From there, there is no excess energy in your muscles and organs as they're getting just enough to function and sometimes not even that much, so your body makes more fat cells to store as much excess blood sugar as possible and then finally your kidneys filter and excrete the excess sugars remaining.

This process is a perfect storm for diabetes, metabolic syndrome, and preferentially gaining fat while being tired and hungry all of the time, and the only way to break it is to cut carbs so that your blood sugar doesn't spike and then to exercise to deplete your muscle glycogen stores so that when your blood sugar does spike it goes to your muscles first, and then do that consistently for the rest of your life if you were in the group affected by this.

[dazag]

I really like how you explained that. I haven't though about it in the terms of that fat tissue is not getting insuline resistance. Thanks for sharing your point, it broadens mine. Yeah, so I just wanted to point that out, to show that the theory behing CICO doesnt work out. It's not calories in vs calories out, it's a whole holistic approach to health. If you keep carbs up, there is no way down, no matter how many calories in vs calories out.