Quote Originally Posted by Lunk1 View Post
This doesn't change my initial statement that you quoted. Test isn't the enemy..estrogen is and if your calories are less than what you burn...you will lose weight.
Lunk, you are misguided on this issue. Perhaps you did not understand my writeup or the wikipedia article fully.

When you can't get estrogen down to the normal range, test is the enemy because it drives estrogen to even higher levels.
Estrogen CAUSES fat gain; excessive estrogen causes EXCESSIVE fat gain even on a caloric deficit. You have no personal experience with this; you really wouldn't know.

Your comment does apply to the majority of the population. It is true that generally, if you burn more than you eat, you will lose weight. Hormonal factors can skew the real-world results, and they clearly do in the case of aromatase excess syndrome.

Please refrain from making comments like this as they do not help anyone. These comments actually can lead to psychological issues due to a person repeatedly 'doing everything right,' being told that this is the way it will work, and the real-world results being completely different. When you fail, fail, fail, and fail again, only to be told that you are eating cheeseburgers you wouldn't even dream of eating, it can drive a person to develop psychological problems. An example would be an eating disorder such as bulimia nervosa.