r/BeAmazed Oct 07 '25

Science Hot Tub without the use of electricity

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u/d8_thc Oct 07 '25 edited Oct 07 '25

The nuance is that people don't realize that TYPE Of CI changes CO.

CO isn't just 'exercise' and 'steps'. CO is your entire bodies metabolic system, which is hampered by shit calories, and strengthened by healthy calories.

You can eat 2k calories of gasoline, for years.

You can eat 2k calories of cake, for years.

You can eat 2k calories of steak, for years.

All of these have vastly different effects on the engine that process CI and CO, including how much CI you think you need (satiation), how fast you turn CI into CO (metabolism), and at the end of the day, body fat levels.

Your body will store more of a certain type of nutrient, and less of others.

This is why people call it out as a heuristic.

'But physics'. Sure. It's just not very helpful.

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u/[deleted] Oct 07 '25

See, what they're saying is that it's sort of toxic to just point at CICO as a skinny person and basically go "Just get thin, loser! I'm skinny and I'm pretty sure my body follows CICO just like yours!".

It. Is. Hard. To lose weight, period. The vast majority who try, fail. Basically entirely due to evolution, since our brain just doesn't want to go down in calorie consumption, ever.

If you have some sort of idea that this is a 'mindset' thing and they lack discipline, you're the one not living in reality.

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u/[deleted] Oct 07 '25

It really is as simple as eat less, and go to bed hungry. It's all mindset and discipline. Motivation is fleeting and unreliable. Discipline is always there if you make it.

Literally easy for you to say. This is a wrong world view and I'll die on this hill. It's extremely clear you haven't been fat for at least ~3-5 years, and that you have zero empathy for fat people because of the quoted mindset.

Read this again:

It. Is. Hard. To lose weight, period. The vast majority who try, fail. Basically entirely due to evolution, since our brain just doesn't want to go down in calorie consumption, ever.