I'm currently losing weight via the traditional CICO method and experiencing loss at a very steady rate of around 1lb a week. I am incredibly happy with this, eating 1200-1400 calories a day and working out 4/5 times a week. I honestly think I'd struggle to drop this any further for a further loss.
I always see posts from friends on Facebook who are following groups like Weight Watchers and Slimming World who regularly report weekly losses of 2-3lbs, without exercise. This would mean an weekly deficit of 10500 and assuming a maintainence of around 1800 a day, in relation to the people I know, would put them on a daily calorie count of around 800 calories. I don't think this is actually the case, as having reviewed the meal plan they suggest, it's much higher than this.
Does anybody know why CICO has a relatively low amount of weekly loss, where as these diet plans seem to have higher than average losses, despite not counting calories and seeming quite carb heavy?
I know it works really well for some people so I'm not knocking it - I just can't understand how it works on a mathematical basis!
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