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Agreed. Some people have significantly higher metabolisms.
Agreed. I'm not talking about nutrition, just weight loss.
I mentioned the nutrition because that used to be my problem in the past.
I had low level of iron, so the answer "just exercise and burn some calories" was quite useless to me -- I was barely able to wake up in the morning. Repeatedly I tried to exercise regularly for a few weeks, but the outcome was always pathetic: after a few moves I was exhausted, and there was no visible long-term progress. Of course, after doing a difficult thing with zero benefits, after a few weeks my motivation was gone.
Meta problem was that "checking my levels of ir... (read more)