If you burn more than you eat, on average over a long period of time, you will lose weight. Simple.
This is complicated by a few factors: being accurate, being consistent, and being sustainable, experiencing changes in health, and accounting for difficult emotions. The body and the mind have to both cooperate.
Accuracy requires you to weigh and log everything, and to calculate your TDEE and activity calories accurately (adjusting as you lose weight). It's a matter of better data and educating yourself.
Consistency means sticking to a deficit on average over days, weeks, months (excepting the occasional deliberate diet break). Don't sabotage your progress every few days, and be honest with yourself when you do. It's a matter of discipline, accountability, and building systems for success.
Sustainability means you re eating in a way that makes you feel in control. You aren't over-restricting and binging, you aren't treating this like a crash diet. Its a matter of balance and understanding your body.
Medications and health conditions are important to account for. Go easy on yourself if you're going through health issues/changes.
Mindset is also complicated by stress, trauma, mood disorders, etc. Whatever your health journey looks like, mental health comes first. Do what is right for you.
So, in the end, the reason commenters go back to "cico" when someone posts that they can't lose weight, is that cico is simple. But it's not easy. If it were easy we would all be whatever size we wanted to be.
The hardest part is the mental journey. Always be learning, always be open, always get back up after failure, always love yourself first.
Be kind to yourself and others.
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