The difference between a "high metabolism" and a "low metabolism" is about one cup of chocolate milk at the most extreme ends of it.

CICO works, if people actually stick with it. Most people lack will power though, and have trained themselves for decades that being not full, is the same as being hungry.

It's okay if your stomach growls a little bit while waiting for lunch, you aren't going to die, have a glass of water and hold out.

Cutting can suck, it does require some will power because you do get hungry from time to time. The easiest way to do it is to split your calorie goal into two meals and a snack. Fast until lunch, eat your first meal, then a snack at like 3-4 pm. Then your second meal in the evening, so you go to bed satiated.

Keto works for so many people because it suppresses hunger and makes it harder to eat too many calories. Same result at the end of the day, slightly less uncomfortable.

Or worse, they go to a physician that TELLS them to eat 5-6 times/day, making sure they eat low fat/high carbohydrate meals.

I think, for the sake of curiosity, I'm going to try it for a few weeks and see how my body reacts.

The thought came to me this morning while seeing how much meat I still had in the freezer, with a half a cow coming next week (lot of burger to use up still).

One caveat though, I'm not giving up dairy, I'll never be able to make my calorie goals without milk, and without cheese, is life really even worth living? Should technically still count, it comes from animals.

Well, 5 days was enough of that.

Felt like trash after work this morning and had to carb up a bit.

It's very hard to do.

I had to eat ALOT of ribeyes to make myself not want to kill someone. In the end its just financially viable for me.