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Originally Posted by TheSquealer
Otherwise, a calorie is a unit of energy. Your body burns energy.
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Look, I agree with just about everything you've said, its what I've thought for years. However, I've seen enough anomalies, particularly with females that made me realize that in some cases its much more complicated than what appears on the surface. Testosterone gives women their mental clarity and mood stabilization, libido and sexual function, muscle tone and mass and ability to metabolize sugars into energy; giving them the ability to maintain a healthy weight. A testosterone deficient woman will usually have an inability to lose weight despite working out and dieting, irritability and lack of sex drive even when in a healthy loving relationship.
I'm 100% confident I could give you a female severely deficient in testosterone and you could produce a calorie deficiency weekly via diet and exercise, yet she would have zero weight loss. I saw this first hand with my wife. She was running 5-7 miles daily and eating incredibly clean, week after week, but could not lose any of her pregnancy weight after child birth. After months of frustration with no weight loss, as I knew she was producing a calorie deficiency, I took her to see a specialist. Despite being in her early 30's, she had almost non existent hormone levels for the 3 main female hormones. After some hormone therapy, she maintained the same exercise and diet as before and the weight just started coming off.