Maxine wrote in and said, “While it’s great that you lost 78 pound’s, you have to understand that starving yourself can have serious health threats. You have to understand that a woman’s hormone’s also make it very hard to lose weight in comparison to men.”
I agree with the starving yourself part Maxine, but I don’t starve myself, I just eat between 75% to 80% of the calories my body requires to maintain my optimum weight. Your body only goes into starvation mode if you eat less than 55% of your required calorie intake. In a previous article I covered how to calculate that number, but I’ll do it again here.
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