Comment by makeitdouble
3 years ago
> CICO is what bodybuilders and athletes and models use, among many others, people mostly fine-tuning.
To nitpick, bodybuilders and athletes usually control their diet at a level where calorie counting is not relevant.
An example of that: https://youtu.be/PBfDWstg3Hc It’s interesting that the overlays always show calorie intake, but you hear the guy and at no point he mentions calories, ever.
He specifically mentions fat, proteins, vitamins, minerals, nutrients and overall quantity. He weights his food at each meal and he probably adjust all of these try and error style, looking at the results. I think calorie estimates are probably meaningless at this point.
> To nitpick, bodybuilders and athletes usually control their diet at a level where calorie counting is not relevant.
To further nitpick, all of bodybuilding is based on a routine of bulking and cutting, where the cutting phase is intentional calorie deficit before competition. Whether or not they track calories per se, all of them are using CICO and proving that it works.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodybuilding#Bulking_and_cutti...