Lyle MacDonald nails it

Mistraal1981
Mistraal1981 Posts: 453 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
https://youtu.be/6846ZTBu08k

Amazing video. So much information I thought you guys would appreciate.
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  • ninerbuff
    ninerbuff Posts: 48,982 Member
    Endorsed.

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    Been in fitness for 30 years and have studied kinesiology and nutrition
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  • jemhh
    jemhh Posts: 14,261 Member
    Ooh, I'll have to bookmark this for later.

    I've been waiting on his new book.

    Thanks for posting!
  • youngmomtaz
    youngmomtaz Posts: 1,075 Member
    Very nice!
  • Meganthedogmom
    Meganthedogmom Posts: 1,639 Member
    Watched the whole thing. Very interesting. Reminding me just how complex my body is gets me all tingly inside.
  • arditarose
    arditarose Posts: 15,573 Member
    edited March 2016
    Watching.

  • ilex70
    ilex70 Posts: 727 Member
    Some people are just objectively more screwed.
    Birth control is a god awful nightmare.

    Lyle makes me smile...I appreciate the lack of BS.

    Thanks for sharing. More info than I've seen re:the new women's book so far on the site.
  • kimny72
    kimny72 Posts: 16,011 Member
    Bookmarking for later. Thanks!
  • arditarose
    arditarose Posts: 15,573 Member
    Love it. But I'm starting to shut down during the birth control discussion.
  • meganmoore112
    meganmoore112 Posts: 174 Member
    I want this information but I don't have time right now to watch an hour long video!
  • macgurlnet
    macgurlnet Posts: 1,946 Member
    Wow, that was super interesting. I had time to kill anyway and this was a good use of that time :)

    ~Lyssa
  • arditarose
    arditarose Posts: 15,573 Member
    lol I watched the whole thing and then put on my IceCream4PRs podcast and the new episode was Lyle talking about the same thing so I listened to an hour of that while grocery shopping.
  • lmhbuss
    lmhbuss Posts: 282 Member
    I have PCOS and I'm pretty sure I just learned stuff about myself that not even my doctors have ever bothered to explain. Thank you sooooo much for posting this. Also "Dude chick" lol. That's what my husband calls me, and it's a compliment when he says it. :smiley:
  • Mistraal1981
    Mistraal1981 Posts: 453 Member
    It certainly makes me feel better knowing that women are so variable, adaptable, versatile and that is why we can be doing everything as we have been told, but don't see the results men do.

    Plus I'm rethinking my diet and exercise plan around my monthly cycle.
  • VisofSer
    VisofSer Posts: 130 Member
    Lyle is the man. Makes me rather glad to be one as well, and more sympathy with my wife. The book might be a revelation. High hopes and baited breath. The channel is also rather good so thank you for the new resource.
  • Mistraal1981
    Mistraal1981 Posts: 453 Member
    bumping for people who may have missed this thread. so much useful info.
  • Springfield1970
    Springfield1970 Posts: 1,945 Member
    Run out of time. Can anyone quickly summarise what we have need to do around our monthly cycle? Can we eat more?? Can we?
  • snowflake954
    snowflake954 Posts: 8,399 Member
    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.
  • VintageFeline
    VintageFeline Posts: 6,771 Member
    I found it incredibly interesting from a physiology point of view. My take away was that there are a lot more mitigating factors for women but it is what it is and being aware of those things is half the battle in overcoming them and adjusting both your effort and expectations accordingly.
  • macgurlnet
    macgurlnet Posts: 1,946 Member
    VintageFeline wrote: »
    I found it incredibly interesting from a physiology point of view. My take away was that there are a lot more mitigating factors for women but it is what it is and being aware of those things is half the battle in overcoming them and adjusting both your effort and expectations accordingly.

    Same here.

    The math is the same for males and females, but females have a whole slew of other things coming in to play. This can make weight(fat) loss more difficult, both mentally and physically. Weight loss is less likely to be linear, and then there's the added insult of potential strength setbacks for those that lift.

    I may watch this again so I can take better note of a few things and try playing around with my workouts a bit based on the info he shared.

    ~Lyssa
  • sunnybeaches105
    sunnybeaches105 Posts: 2,831 Member
    Marking for reference. Lyle is a great source
  • CooCooPuff
    CooCooPuff Posts: 4,374 Member
    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
    stephanieluvspb Posts: 997 Member
    <3
  • jdhcm2006
    jdhcm2006 Posts: 2,254 Member
    This was a really interesting watch.
  • CJsf1t
    CJsf1t Posts: 414 Member
    Thanks for posting this @Mistraal1981 ! Very interesting!
  • poteatkd
    poteatkd Posts: 113 Member
    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
    arditarose Posts: 15,573 Member
    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
    Slowfaster Posts: 186 Member
    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
    22Brentwoodgirl Posts: 51 Member
    Bumping to watch later.
  • kimdawnhayden
    kimdawnhayden Posts: 298 Member
    I love Lyle!
  • jemhh
    jemhh Posts: 14,261 Member
    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.

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