Update on my current model

You didn't expect this from me I promise

One pound of golden potatoes is about 350 calories.

Assuming a person eats only golden potatoes throughout the day to full satiety without forcing themselves, a typical adult male eating until comfortable would realistically consume around 4 to 6 pounds of potatoes per day.

4 lbs is 1600 calories.
6 lbs is 2100 caloires.

An adult male typically has a break even calorie intake of 2800-3200 calories depending on size and build.

Factor in seed oil avoidance and long term mitochondrial recovery, TDEE would rise over time the longer the diet continued. Potatoes are also high in potassium and magnesium, both needed by the liver to process seed oils out, as well as fiber and antioxidants. Just add salt.

*Slime Mold’s ad libitum potatoes* works because it’s almost impossible to over eat them, due to their bulk.
The entire obesity argument can be attributed to a bidirectional imbalance affecting ATP production and consumption. Higher demand may cause the cells to try to produce more ATP, but bottlenecks in the ETC damage membranes. Seed oils make ETC membranes abbrasive and ineficient, meaning less ATP production. Less ATP combined with more demand means the system can’t keep up with new orders and so the brain panicks (cortisol) and issues a ‘geas’ to consume hedonistically, obsessively. (The second hunger)

Seed oils, PFAS, certain minerals, hormones in meat can account for reduced ATP production capacity while foods like chocolate, fast food, desserts with seed oils in them often consist of thousands of calories at a time.

CICO itself is still too narrow and dogmatic, but as

Energy economy is the funnel with which the rest of the strategy relies. Exercise doesn’t use enough energy on it’s own to make meaningful changes to body composition and yet exercise is the most efficient and safest method of putting pressure on mitochondrial production, increasing mitochondrial density, thus increasing ATP production capacity.

Experimental Fat Loss ‘s Ex150 works because it’s replacing seed oils with saturated fats and the antioxidants (retinoids) that prevent transforming vulnerable mitochondrial membranes into damaged membranes and because it’s using the highest satiety food known to man (so far). Go ahead and chug some heavy cream and tell me how you feel in 30 minutes, it’s not pleasant. Further heavy cream issues a heightened bile output demand which requires even more energy to output, as well as this being a ketosis inducing diet (80% + fats). This diet calls for about 1 pint per day, totalling 1700 calories + the 150g of beef and added veggies (correct me if I’m wrong)

It’s not CICO, it’s economy (not written by AI actually), and it has many variables not accounted for by CICO, but the winning strategy seems to be just like paying off debt, but in reverse. Increase income and decrease spending (increase spending of energy and decrease income below the threshold temporarily until the balance is paid in full.)

Naturally there’s a lot of nuance I’m not touching on, but this is a more parsimonious (if you can believe it) explanation of my current model.