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CriticalThinker's avatar

Thank you, I am always vacillating back and forth about limiting calories and maintaining healthy macros. I do believe that strength training is the key 🗝️. Thanks for the clarification and precise strategy!

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This is great information, but I’m left with the impression that it’s mostly relevant for obese (or at least overweight) individuals, and younger individuals.

Older individuals, especially post menopausal women, will generally have trouble tolerating that level of exercise, and would require more recovery time than — according to your data — allowed within the window of effective (for weight loss) levels of exercise.

How would you recommend the populations that can’t physically handle these recommendations proceed? As you probably know, menopausal women can work out as hard as they can tolerate , follow a reasonable diet with reasonable caloric intake and still struggle to lose weight. Sufficient protein intake (with the calories from fat that naturally accompany it) leaves little room for anything else if low enough caloric levels for weight loss are maintained when your body doesn’t tolerate these high levels of physical activity.

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