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Chapter 9 · Ali Do Is Win

Metabolic Damage Myths and Caloric Realities

October 13, 2021

And I want to go down the road of so many people posting how I lose weight on 3,500 calories when they're like my size. And I think that the way the industry has painted a picture is if you go below, you know, the 1200 calorie line, you are going to get metabolic damage. You're no longer going to eat pretty much anything. And you're ruined because people are like, oh my god if you diet for two weeks you're going to be ruined you're going to be damaged and I think I never talked about how low we went in calories publicly number one because people would freak out but number two I knew that we would eventually do this podcast so that we can qualify why we had to go pretty low because I am five foot three and around 60 kilos 63.6 today but with my size doesn't mean that I can diet on like 2,500 to 3,000 calories and I'm going to be 40 on Saturday like you know sometimes you can't just compare what people are saying on Instagram to what you're doing because probably isn't real so can we elaborate on that