Instagram told you you’re not eating enough. Then it told you you’re not in a deficit. Same week, same feed. No wonder you changed nothing. I’m 50, and after over twenty years of reading women’s food diaries I’ll tell you which one it usually is. The woman who can’t lose weight is usually eating more than she thinks. Not lying. Just never shown where it hides. It hides in the fats. Olive oil, nut butter, avocado, cheese, nuts. Nine calories a gram. It hides in the protein you added on top without taking anything away. In the extra workout that let you leave the plate alone. And in never having weighed a full honest week, oil included. The other story is real too, just rarer than your feed makes it look. If you’ve been fasting or on one meal a day for months and it’s stopped working, you’re the exception. In a 2020 JAMA Internal Medicine trial, 16:8 fasting was no better than three meals for weight loss, and lean mass fell more in the fasting group. I absolutely see these women in my...