Show me the fat macro women!
If they are fat, they are cheating!!!!
I would liket to hear from women who followed this diet religiously and got fat.[/quote]
Jonny:
Macrobiotics is not about perfection. If someone is cheating it means that they are out of balance. For women, it is usually from too much salt and grain(which is abundant in Macrobiotics and it is easy to get carried away with). Internally, women are more yang so we have a low tollerence for yang. Men can handle more grain, salt, bread, etc. bc/ they are biologically more yin. I can name more than a few Macrobiotic women, teachers even, on the East coast and West who have or have had problems with weight, including myself. For some women, (usually very yang ones) if they are having too much grain and salt and heavy foods (lots of stews, kimpira, peanutbutter, bread) and less veg. it is going to make one gain weight. It is as simple as that. I was only able to loose weight after I had my kids. Having children also takes out past excess such as meat, eggs, tuna etc. which is what many of our bodies are made up of (before we became Macro). Hope I am not getting to complicated on you. To recap: for some women, extreme yang= gain and hold weight.
You may want to consider doing a little studying with other Macrobiotic people. When you see these things in action they make much more sense.
shoyu