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CICO meaning calories-in-calories-out? Please avoid undefined and uncommon acronyms.

Did you do food diaries/journals as you increased weight, and as you lost weight? I have lost significant amounts of weight by reducing caloric intake, and noticed that my records on the way up and down were very different.

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In this context, it's a common acronym. Maybe you are just not as well read in this area as in others?

Googling CICO on an incognito window are 100% hits for calories-in-calories-out.

That's how I figured it out, but I consider 'this context' to be Hacker News, where 'API' is common, but 'CICO' is not.

Reading the linked article is a prerequisite for discussion of said article. The term is defined in the article.

Highly recommend it by the way.

It's defined in section two, on page seven, and only used three times. I will admit that I only read the introduction and conclusion, as I didn't want to spend two hours reading the 80-page paper.

I see your point, but if you’ve got a question over acronym usage, the right answer is not to ask somebody to do the prerequisite reading for you. You made it seem like it was their failing for using an acronym that you couldn’t be bothered to search for within the article in question.

I believe so. It sounds like he doing paleo without keto. I may be wrong, but basically just eat food on the perimeter of the super market. Veggies, meat, dairy. Nothing processed.

it's a common acronym and also mentioned in the article

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