Severe calorie restriction is the biggest weight loss mistake, especially among women influenced by fad diets and pressure for a constantly lean look. When intake drops too low, your body enters shutdown mode, which actually undermines fat loss and health.
Starvation is not a strategy. Do you have any clients that kind of ring that true? You can explain.
Yeah, I've had a few. Look, without putting people into boxes, it generally tends to be the female clients a lot more often than the male clients, and I think that's just a society thing over a long period of time and maybe some generations as well where certain food trends have been on fad. Well, I suppose if we pull on that thread a little bit, when we say society, it's—
I think people are sold the idea that need to be burning fat all year long, you know, they need to have a summer body, you need to get toned. Kind of helps this thought process where if I'm on 1,200 calories, well then 1,000 calories must get me the goal faster. And if I want 1,000 calories, 800 must get me the goal faster. But the problem is, like, you get to the point where it's just ridiculous, and your body does start to shut down.
