Welcome to this episode of Science versus Bullshit slash the ESG Fitness Podcast, depending on where you're listening to this recording.

Today I thought I would do a bit of a Q&A for numerous reasons.

One, because I got some awesome questions and two, because I feel really rude when someone asks me a question and then don't answer them.

But I also don't want to have like a million stories on my Instagram.

And this gives me space to like elaborate on them a little bit more and give some context to them and explore them a bit.

So if you have recently asked me a question on Instagram, the likelihood is you're going to get a response

here today. So I'm going to try and get through as many of these as possible in the next

about 20 to 30 minutes of attention span that I have left for the day. It's been a very long day.

Okay, first one, although actually the last question I got,

but anyway, hope it's not too late. I have a personal trainer who's telling me to eat more.

I'm only five foot tall and I just look puffy. Will it change? Now, with only this context,

it's quite hard to give a response and I think it's unfair as well to judge what the

personal trainer is doing without knowing the context. So if, for example, you were like,

yeah, I've been trying to stick to 800 calories a day and your personal trainer's like,

you should probably eat more than I totally back them. What I don't back and what sometimes happens with smaller women

is a lot of the time people don't realize how much lower your needs can be if, for example,

you're only five foot tall. And so they're like, oh, I've got other clients that are also women,

that are also doing about the same as you. And they eat 1,800

calories and lose weight. And they're not really considering like your basal metabolic rate,

your needs at baseline. And that as a smaller person, you're going to need significantly less.

So I do have small women that I work with who do need to diet on low calories. And sometimes that is

as though it's like 1,400 calories, sometimes 1,300 calories, depending on what their goals are

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