For decades, mainstream fitness and nutrition advice has been based almost entirely on male physiology. If you have been doing everything “right”—training on an empty stomach, pushing through long cardio sessions, and eating less—only to feel exhausted and frustrated by a lack of results, it is not your fault. Women are not simply small men;
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