The Real Reason Your Calorie Deficit Isn’t Working

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My Community BeStrong provides both Training programs and help with recipes and MEAL PLANNING!!! Making it easier than ever to hit your goals!!!

Membership gives you access to….

• Training App with dozens of programs to choose from.
• MEAL PLANS w/ Yummy recipes!
• Courses :
  • Learn Step Away from Tracking and Mindfully Eat
  • How to set up a Fat Loss plan
  • Setting up your Muscle building phase.
• Community & Support with specific groups that share you same goals
• $500 worth in give aways monthly
• Monthly Themes and Challenges to increase your learning and help you BECOME the person you want to be.
• bi Weekly Lives where I help you get your nutrition plan or answer questions
• Upload videos of exercises for form reviews done by me!

Topics discussed in this episode:

• (00:08) - Get ready for some tough love
• (02:52) - Instagram is for old people
• (04:20) - Stories we see about reasons you can't lose weight
• (06:51) - Humans are bad at estimating calories
• (14:58) - Some ways you can get a better idea of what you're consuming
• (20:55) - Somebody has to be sacrificed if you want change

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4. Champagne, C.M., et al., Energy intake and energy expenditure: a controlled study comparing dietitians and non-dietitians. J Am Diet Assoc, 2002. 102(10): p. 1428-32.
5. Dahle, J.H., et al., Underreporting of energy intake in weight loss maintainers. Am J Clin Nutr, 2021.
6. McKenzie, B.L., et al., Investigating sex differences in the accuracy of dietary assessment methods to measure energy intake in adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Am J Clin Nutr, 2021. 113(5): p. 1241-1255.
7. Willbond, S.M., et al., Normal weight men and women overestimate exercise energy expenditure. J Sports Med Phys Fitness, 2010. 50(4): p. 377-84.