just wanted to let you know your site is brilliant; the way that you explain these terms, such as metabolism and energy expenditure, in simple, laymen terms is something which is crucially important and necessary in a world where society has long focused on calorie counting (especially for women) in order to guilt and shame us into having a body that fits the feminine ideal (thin, toned, but ultimately weak).

Your message teaches people to focus on all aspects of metabolic health in order to help them prepare their bodies for a lifestyle of physical training and strength, something which is so over looked by women today that society expects us to be weak, salad eating, chocolate avoiding, green tea drinking drones, and God FORBID we should not select the low-fat yoghurt from the fridge, when we should KNOW that a minute on the lips = life time on the hips (eye roll).

Thank you, you are not only doing great things for the health and lifestyles of people everywhere, but you also helping feminism by giving spreading your knowledge and experience in order to allow women to make their own choice.

Amie

And from woman to woman: You are gorgeous.

That’s where I went wrong for awhile (as in many months), I was eating as if I was my old, sedentary self, low-carbing it, maintaining a caloric deficit, and every day feeling like I was trying to run through a brick wall, even though I was now very physically active.

Lesson learned: It’s okay to eat some cookies.

Lauren is right, it does mean calories in/calories out, but the calories out variable can be affected by many factors, including macro and micronutrient ratios, food quality, sleep quality, etc. So the popular perception of ‘calories in – calories out’ can be a bit oversimplified.