Hey there, this is Abel James and welcome to the Fat Burning Man podcast.

I'm so glad you stopped by.

So today I'm going to be ranting a bit about everyone's favorite subject, dieting.

So I hope you'll humor me.

I'm going to warn you right now.

If you haven't figured

it out already, most of what I recommend to my readers, listeners, and clients completely

flies in the face of popular beliefs and everything that you've been told is the truth.

Tainted by special interest, powerful industry lobbyists, sleazy health and fitness gurus and

others, the lion's share of conventional wisdom about diet and health

is just wrong, and those who trumpet its claims are misinformed, misguided, or simply misleading

you. And if someone tells you to eat less and exercise more, stop listening. Despite decades

of proven evidence in scientific literature, it's amazing how few people seem to be aware

of the fact that dieting is counterproductive over the long term. Years ago, my father shared a story

about his sister who struggled with weight during adolescence. To encourage weight loss, her doctor

put her on an insanely restrictive diet regimen. Although it was painful

and required incredible willpower and restraint, she successfully limited herself to a starvation

diet of fewer than 600 calories a day. She lost a couple pounds over the course of a few weeks,

but the weight loss eventually stalled and then the weight came right back. Now, they grew up on a

farm, so they were burning quite a few,

but how could it be that her siblings could eat over 3,000 calories a day

and stay lean while she was eating less than 600

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