| Meanwhile, as someone who is obese and is working on it, I absolutely do recommend CICO as the best tool we currently have. But it's strikingly similar to trying to get a homeless person to budget in that there are likely other things that need to be fixed first, we just don't know what they are. Sounds kind of hopeless when you put it that way doesn’t it? It kind of sounds like a self-defeating narrative. “We don’t know the answer, so let’s either 1) keep status quo or 2) try a bunch of silly things that only temporarily help at best”. I used to eat a decent amount of sugar including daily soda. Ten years ago I got my blood test back that showed high triglycerides - 251. It was very high for me and I resolved to do something about it. I went cold turkey on sugar. Stopped soda, stopped sweets, etc. I didn’t try to stop all sugar like what’s added to bread but other than that I was done.I explicitly did not replace it with artificial sweetener. Instead I tried to develop the mentality that sugar was poison and I simply didn’t eat it. Not as a temporary diet, but ever. Two things happened: 1) I had two weeks of horrible sugar cravings trying to drive me to eating sugar 2) Then the cravings stopped completely. Fruit started tasting amazing. At my next physical, triglycerides were 113. Ten years later and they stay about 80. Haven’t had a soda in ten years. The thought of drinking a disgustingly syrupy soda disgusts me. It’s probably one of the reasons it’s stuck: if I kept the mentality that I was depriving myself my willpower would eventually give in. Instead I crave soda about as much as I crave eating a bowl full of grasshoppers. Anyway, just giving my experience. YMMV, good luck on your path. |