#162 - Myths of metabolic adaptation with Brandon DaCruz

Weight Loss For Women: eat more, train less, get results

We had Brandon on the podcast discussing the benefits of NEAT previously, so if you haven’t listened to that one, go back and give it a listen! Daily movement is such a good tool for fat loss and overall better health.

So many women come to us after doing crazy restrictive diets, binging on food, and drinking alcohol. They often complain of poor sleep, menopause issues, and low metabolic function. I hear many women saying that they can’t lose weight because of their metabolism, but it’s amazing when we work with them how quickly things start improving.

Brandon, Craig, and I chat about:

➡️How your entire lifestyle facilitates your health

➡️What metabolism actually is

➡️Energy expenditure across the lifespan

➡️Why scale weight doesn’t necessarily measure fat loss

➡️Metabolic adaption and how it works

➡️What goes into total energy expenditure

➡️The importance of protein and weight training

➡️Creating healthy habits that work within your lifestyle

➡️Critical thinking when it comes to your health

➡️Getting to your fat loss goal vs sustaining it

➡️Why fitness shouldn’t be a comparative journey

➡️The importance of accountability and support

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SHOW NOTES

01:51 - Brief background of Brandon

06:06 - How your lifestyle facilitates your health

07:13 - The myths about metabolic damage

09:34 - Things that influence your metabolism

10:20 - The slow and fast metabolism

13:20 - Energy expenditure across your lifespan

15:00 - Why it's not your age that slows down your metabolism but your lifestyle and habits

15:42 - Doing the basics and why it's important if you want a healthy metabolism

16:13 - How psychology impacts physiology

17:23 - Why scale weight doesn’t necessarily measure fat loss

20:08 - Metabolic adaptation and how it works

23:04 - Adaptive thermogenesis

24:39 - The importance of protein and weight training

26:49 - What goes into total energy expenditure

32:59 - Training capability

36:22 - Ecological vs external validity

37:52 - The advantages of investing in coaching

44:00 - Tracking and why it's important

44:38 - Giving it enough time to see a transformation and avoiding shortcuts

46:20 - Losing and gaining more weight later on from yo-yo dieting

48:45 - Getting to your fat loss goal vs sustaining it

51:46 - Having an abundance mindset

52:12 - Creating a fundamental shift in the way you live

55:21 - Not being able to see immediate results and why you need to be patient

58:54 - Change and progress in relative terms

01:03:44 - The importance of accountability and support

01:10:20 - Self limiting beliefs and how to overcome them

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