Indeed - as a testimonial I can say that following Black Pill Fitness and to some extent Galen from about 2017-2020 was enough to get lean again after being 50 lbs overweight.
What's funny is DS didn't stay lean himself but that's because he stopped giving a fuck, not because his advice didn't work.
Who knows what happened to Galen; he was smart and high energy, but also a mentally ill homosexual - he may be dead by now for all we know.
I could actually follow the modified version of Black Pill Fitness which is described on the forum in posts like the "nutrition on the go" thing much more rigorously than I have recently and even be much leaner but I also stopped caring as much.