Probably the closest thing to experiencing a black hole the average human being that is currently alive could ever encounter.

I’ve had a few friends that had weasels and they did this to me. I thought it was just them being cute.

I did not realize that they were trying to build up their limit breaker to kill and eat me.

Okay, okay, alright, somebody, someone somewhere…

You have to tell me, how the fuck do they make money from being intentionally stupid?

How the fuck?

There’s no way they’re doing this by accident.

There’s no way they’re actually this stupid.

There has to be an angle.

What the fuck is the angle?

How the fuck are they funding their lives by saying shit like this?

Unless you’re talking about when water converts to steam, in which case it expands by over a thousand times its original size, and the expansion is what provides usable energy and not the temperature differentials.

My original, original comment was that your BMR is not as sure as everyone claims it is on the internet.

If you go look up your BMR, it’ll ask you your height and weight and age and gender and give you a number of calories you’re going to automatically burn every single day, like it’s gospel truth.

And if I stuck to that number, I would gain roughly 20 pounds a year, at least until the increase in weight and my metabolism and my calories actually balanced out.

Which means that finding out the O in CICO can be much more difficult for some people than other people.

And once your metabolism is fucked, there’s not exactly a whole lot of information out there on how to unfuck it, other than “stay on a diet”, which, as you’ve just seen, isn’t necessarily easy, there’s not hard numbers to follow, and “exercise”, which is fine, but probably what I actually need to do is put on muscle, which means eating calories above how many I’m burning so that my body has the fuel to create more muscle.

So if I want to fix my body and lose the last 30 pounds I’m trying to lose, what I actually need to do is overeat until I put on like 10 pounds of muscle and then eat a high protein diet to maintain that muscle while I’m eating low carbs and low calories overall so that I can burn off as much of the fat as possible.

The problem is to put on 10 pounds of muscle can take 6 months to a year, and any time you’re gaining weight, it’s difficult to control what goes to muscle and what goes to fat. So even if I use a DEXA scan and measure until I’ve got 10 additional pounds of muscle, I might put on 20 pounds in the process, the rest of which would be fat.

This means all of the discipline I’ve had in maintaining my diet now has to change in order to fix my body, which now has to change in order to fix my metabolism, so that I can then go back to doing what I’m doing now and have it actually work the way it’s supposed to, and if I fuck up along the way, and my body goes back to burning 200 calories a day under my BMR, then I just have to live on a fucking starvation diet which will get more and more strict and more and more extreme the closer I get to my goal.

And the worst part is that’s just a theory. I don’t have any way of proving that. I do know that a pound of muscle burns like four calories more per day than a pound of fat does, so that will improve my daily fat burn by 40 calories, which isn’t exactly the 200 calories I’m under, but there’s no fucking way in hell I’m gonna put on 50 pounds of muscle unless I start taking steroids.

So, going back to your original thing, I was never saying CICO did not work. I was saying that, once again, you have to actually know what the O is, and it’s not the same for everyone, and it’s not always easy to find out, and if it’s fucked, it’s not easy to fix.

The people that love going “CICO! CICO!”, always overlook the actual complexity of the argument.

Keto also works because the homogeneity of the meals induces many people to eat less.

If you were literally forced to only eat chicken and broccoli for every single meal, eventually you would become so disgusted you would eat enough to survive, and probably not anymore.

You have completely missed the point of my entire rant.

Cico works, but “o” is a variable that can vary wildly from person to person, day to day based on environmental, genetic, and nutritional factors.

And even if it was, wood in a fire pit does not burn uniformly.

The type of wood, the quality of the wood, the contents of the wood all affect how fast it burns and how hot it burns.

Very dry pine wood burns incredibly hot and very fast, whereas damp maple may self-extinguish. It may not be capable of maintaining its own fire due to its moisture content and the density of the fibers in the wood.

And while you can look at the whole and say this amount of wood emitted this many BTUs of heat energy, you can’t say “this amount of wood being burned should emit this amount of heat in this period of time” when you’re not taking into consideration the type of wood, the quality of wood, and even how the logs are arranged.

Science is about controlling variables, and when you have too many variables that are not being taken account of, you cannot get an accurate scientific measurement of the results of your experiment.

And that’s not even taking into consideration the fact that the raw nutritional quality of foods grown in the western world at least has dropped precipitously, inducing people to eat more food to get the raw nutrition they need that’s not just calories.

We know that calories are comprised of carbohydrates, proteins, and fats, and we can generally account for those, but the nutrition, the selenium, the zinc, the iron, the calcium, the phosphates, the everything else that makes up the food that we eat. If it’s not there in sufficient qualities to meet what our bodies are calling for, then it’s natural for us to overeat to attempt to fill in those nutritional deficiencies.

And when your brain has been fucked by not getting the nutrition it needs, and your body has been fucked by not getting the nutrition it needs, and your food has been fucked by not delivering the nutrition you need, then once you’re in that situation, it’s not as simple as, oh, just don’t eat that Twinkie.

So calories in, calories out is the truth.

Just like gravity is the truth.

But knowing the math, 9.8 meters a second squared, is not enough to go to the moon.

I’ll just keep repeating this, but your BMR (Basal Metabolic Rate) is not scientifically set in stone.

While it’s accurate for I would say 90% of the population, rough estimate, there are many things that can cause your BMR to not be accurate, like thyroid issues or lack of musculature due to sedentary lifestyle or due to hormone imbalances or any number of myriad things.

I went and had mine tested and it cost me I believe $70 at a sports medicine place, and I burn approximately 200 calories less than my BMR chart says that I should.

So if I wanted to maintain my weight, and I ate the calories the internet says that I should every day, I would actually gain almost 20 lbs a year (a nice rough estimate is every 10 calories a day you cut from your diet you lose one pound a year).

And as I am working on losing weight, and I’m eating 500 calories under my BMR, I’m actually only eating 300 calories under my true BMR, which means my weight loss is incredibly slow.

So yes, while calories and calories out is true, there are external factors that make it difficult to get accurate numbers to compare against.

Therefore calories in calories out is much simpler to say than it is to do for some percentage of the population.

Actually, your BMR (Basal Metabolic Rate) can change.

What you see online is based off of your age and your height and your weight, you should burn approximately x number of calories per day.

But people with thyroid issues and hormone issues and metabolic irregularities can actually burn less or more than the standard BMR listed on the internet.

To find out your true BMR, you have to go and get tested.

That being said, what you should do, ideally, is trust what the internet says about it, and then, if you find yourself having problems losing weight, then go and get your BMR tested. There are many sports medicine places that have the testing equipment that will do it for fifty to a hundred dollars, and you can find out that if you deviate from the norm. For instance, I burn about 200 calories less than my BMR says I should.

So if I’m eating 500 calories under that on my diet, I’m only burning 300 calories a day.

And if I eat specifically the number of calories my BMR says I should be allowed to eat and maintain my weight, I’m actually putting on 200 calories every day.

Potential downside: For a while the world is gonna smell like curdled milk.

But, and hear me out, if the people that were constantly freaking out and terrified all of the time were to chill a little bit, the world would improve dramatically, almost instantaneously.

We are in a period of time where calmness is the most vital thing for our leaders and for the people.

And if you can’t make it yourself, store bought is fine.

I’ve been saying this forever, but, like, these people really need to go back and reread Chicken Little. They’re getting Fox News, getting scared, and reacting based off of what Fox is telling them, and not what the Chicken Little’s are telling them.

The sky is not falling.

Take a deep breath, calm the fuck down, and chill. Everything’s okay. As long as we stop freaking out.

I would literally punch my best friend in the nuts for a girlfriend like that.