| If your BMR is 750-1000, you're likely a female shorter than 5' and/or weighing less than 100 lbs. At that point, you are likely severely underweight and probably shouldn't be trying to lose weight. I'm not denying that there are other reasons to eat a diet with greater nutritional density, but trying to convince people that CICO is wrong is far more harmful than trying to convey that it is literally the most important factor in trying to modify your weight. If you want to make changes in your life, you need to know the right things to measure, and your caloric intake relative to how your weight changes is the single most important factor for people trying to lose weight. If you're not even doing that, it's unlikely you'll succeed, as millions of people who struggle with their weight will understand. Once you've convinced people of the value of that, it then becomes more productive to go into the value of high protein intake and strength training to further improve body composition, the importance of eating a diet centered around fruits and vegetables, etc. For people that are severely overweight, getting their weight down will have the highest impact on their health. >Nobody is suggesting that CICO and the insulin theory are mutually exclusive; Taubes literally argued this in the paragraph where he quoted the biochemistry text. |