The Mass In, Mass Out Diet

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Eliezer Yudkowsky once wrote an essay about the Proves Too Much technique, using Calories In, Calories Out (CICO) as the poster child. He makes a reductio ad absurdum argument that if CICO were correct then Mass In, Mass Out would be even more correct. What happens if we bite that bullet??

(Sidebar: What's wrong with CICO? The way I think of it, the fundamental problem of weight loss is a miscalibrated hunger mechanism. So in theory you can count calories to ensure a deficit and lose weight. But it will be torturous and you'll have to do it for the rest of your life.)

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• Weight Loss (by Bethany) #99
• Ancient draft about calories in/out by Melanie #114
• The Tareable Diet #44
• Love Song of a Beeminding Cheapskate (by Melanie) #97
• Gary Taubes #113
• The Yo-Yo No-No #252
• melzaminder

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