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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s not just calories. Read The Obesity Code. Women shoot themselves in the foot by messing up their metabolisms with low calorie diets.[/quote]

This this this!! DCUM is obsessed with telling women that it’s a simple “calories in, calories out” equation. But it’s not. It really isn’t. Read the Obesity Code, maybe some Gary Taubes, and you will feel the scales fall from your eyes. Particularly with PCOS at play. Personally, I have also gotten a lot of mileage out of doing a fasting-mimicking diet for one week out of every six. Even if you don’t lose weight (though  it’s almost inevitable that you will), your body gets a chance to clean out a bunch of cellular “garbage” and you feel amazing and motivated to continue.[/quote]

There is no way around calories in vs. calories out if you want to lose weight. Some women respond better to some macros than others, but without a calorie deficit there is no weight loss. I agree though that super low calorie diets many women put themselves on can be counterproductive, but for very obese individual there is a place for them if well structured and temporary. Btw. Taubes has received a lot of criticism from people more credentialed than he is on his theory and "research", including from Lyle McDonald who is mentioned above. I could not quickly find his critique now, but here is one of many https://weightology.net/gary-taubes-bad-calories-or-bad-research/[/quote]

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