Lyle MacDonald nails it

CooCooPuff

snowflake954 wrote: »

I watched the whole thing. It explains alot. I wish he had gone into more detail on menopause though. Yes, it's harder for a female to lose that last 20 lbs and keep it off. We need a strategy to be successful. Drawing back to study mine................ Thanks for the link.

I imagine his book will be discuss it further.

stephanieluvspb

jdhcm2006

This was a really interesting watch.

CJsf1t

Thanks for posting this @Mistraal1981 ! Very interesting!

poteatkd

Bumping to watch later today. Seems the consensus of opinion is that the man knows what he is talking about.

Thank you for posting.

arditarose

It's funny that I watched this and started a deficit, right smack in the worst phase of my cycle which he talks about here. 12 days later? Weight finally dropped. It's really frustrating getting only one week per month when I can get an accurate weigh-in.

Slowfaster

Springfield1970 wrote: »

Run out of time. Can anyone quickly summarise what we have need to do around our monthly cycle? Can we eat more?? Can we?

We've always known that a woman's body is genetically designed to hang on to it's weight harder than a man's because her body is responsible for carrying babies and feeding them afterward. Women are much more likely to survive a famine.

Our hormonal cycle will effect hunger and fat loss and any added hormones, through birth control, will also factor into how hungry she is and how many calories she will burn at any time of the month. All good reasons to only weigh ourselves once a month, at the end of our period.

Lyle goes into all this in great detail but frequently reminds us that problems like dieting until you quit menstruating won't happen until your body fat gets really low. He says that all these differences mean that while we wont lose weight as fast as men and our bodies will try to compensate for any caloric deficits harder, we can still lose weight, we just have to be more meticulous and patient than they do.

A lot of his information will be valuable to women who are trying to take their bodies from a "normal," body fat of 20 or 25, into the teens and into a much leaner stage where her abs will show because that layer of estrogen produced fat will be gone. I'm not sure why she would want to do that but some do.

For those of us who simply want to achieve a normal BMI, the information is probably not necessary, though it is interesting. Just know not to compare ourselves with men. We wont lose as fast as they do, we wont look as lean.

22Brentwoodgirl

Bumping to watch later.

kimdawnhayden

I love Lyle!

jemhh

AbstemiousMe wrote: »

Springfield1970 wrote: »

Run out of time. Can anyone quickly summarise what we have need to do around our monthly cycle? Can we eat more?? Can we?

We've always known that a woman's body is genetically designed to hang on to it's weight harder than a man's because her body is responsible for carrying babies and feeding them afterward. Women are much more likely to survive a famine.

Our hormonal cycle will effect hunger and fat loss and any added hormones, through birth control, will also factor into how hungry she is and how many calories she will burn at any time of the month. All good reasons to only weigh ourselves once a month, at the end of our period.

Lyle goes into all this in great detail but frequently reminds us that problems like dieting until you quit menstruating won't happen until your body fat gets really low. He says that all these differences mean that while we wont lose weight as fast as men and our bodies will try to compensate for any caloric deficits harder, we can still lose weight, we just have to be more meticulous and patient than they do.

A lot of his information will be valuable to women who are trying to take their bodies from a "normal," body fat of 20 or 25, into the teens and into a much leaner stage where her abs will show because that layer of estrogen produced fat will be gone. I'm not sure why she would want to do that but some do.

For those of us who simply want to achieve a normal BMI, the information is probably not necessary, though it is interesting. Just know not to compare ourselves with men. We wont lose as fast as they do, we wont look as lean.

I watched this a few weeks ago but this part *just* got through to me because I just got feedback on my bf%, which I thought was way higher than the range he was talking about. Turns out it's pretty much where I am, which helps explain some difficulties I have been having. I need to go back and listen to it all again.

gesundundmunter

Great information. I also wished there was more on menopause (I'm 56). Maybe in his books.

indunna

Bump to watch later

blues4miles

Thanks for posting and re-bumping!

Miscellaneous thoughts-

At the beginning he is talking a bit about his other book he is writing and says (and I am paraphrasing), people know how to lose weight they just don't know how to maintain it. Small quibble I just don't think this is universal. I see this on here sometimes, that people think it's "easy" to lose and "difficult" to maintain. I suspect the truth is not so straightforward, I know I don't find it easy to lose weight. I never get the chance to maintain because I never hit my weight loss goal, so obviously it's difficult to lose weight. Granted it's just a one off sentence from him, I suspect he's going to go through it with his usual thoroughness and of course we need more info on maintenance.

"Women are treated like little men" I laughed, this reminded me of the middle ages when they used to draw/paint children like little adults.

"Once he [the man] contributes his one little thing, he kind of doesn't matter anymore. I mean, it's helpful if he hangs around." - to kill spiders

Says women have an easier time losing upper body fat, something along the lines of men ending up with a tummy and skinny legs while women can get abs much sooner. Again not sure this is universal, many of us apple-shaped women would disagree!

"Men have one 65 year long cycle of being a--holes" Haha.

"Forums are going the way of the dinosaur" lies!

*Edited to add: really looking forward to the book!

ErryDayImHustlin

Lyle is the man

snowflake954

Bump--cause this is awesome.

Catawampous

I watched this a couple of days ago. It was really good