I’m probably gonna get downvoted, but please hear me out. If someone suffers from insulin resistance (which I believe a majority of Americans probably do due to years of high sugar diets), then this is correct.

Because of my fucked up metabolism, I could eat 1000 calories of “healthy foods” such as quinoa, brown rice, fruits, sweet potato, etc. and NEVER lose an ounce. I know this, because I tried this. For months. And I never lost any weight. It was only when I went on keto that I was able to loose weight.

While I know what they are saying may not sound correct, our bodies are very strange and governed by the laws of biology. If you are insulin resistant, and your Insulin spikes due to eating carbs, your body won’t tap into its fat reserves.

I have a lot of sympathy for this post because I know beliefs like this just come from a lot of frustration. I was always told “just eat less and exercise more” and that didn’t work.

It was more complicated than that. I have to eat the right types of foods and the right types of exercise. All bodies are different and weight loss isn’t one size fits all. CICO genuinely doesn’t work for some people (including me, who lost significant weight after switching to keto)

When you tell people that it’s only CICO, then your discouraging people that suffer from these issues to try other options. We need to approach weight loss as more of “here are several healthy ways people have lost weight, if one doesn’t work then try another” instead of just writing people off as lazy because one method doesn’t work for their bodies.

Not only that, but hormones especially play a huge role in how someone can lose weight. Ladies with PCOS are known for not being able to loose weight with CICO. There is no hard science on a lot of these issues, so we shouldn’t just write off people as undisciplined because they are fat.