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Feb 2023
44m 25s

#196 - Understanding energy balance when...

KITTY BLOMFIELD
About this episode

Kate has probably been on the podcast most out of any other of our guests. She is the author of How To Heal Your Metabolism; It’s a great book. If you haven’t read it, I definitely recommend it.

We notice a lot of women that come into this space come from restrictive diet backgrounds and then start including carbs and dairy into their diet without actually tracking their calorie intake....and what happens? Unwanted weight gain.

So we thought we would talk more about understanding energy balance when it comes to weight gain and weight loss.

In this episode, Kate and I chat about:

➡️The importance of knowing your starting point

➡️Getting honest with yourself and tracking your food

➡️How you get stuck in the restrict-binge cycle

➡️How to calculate your TDE

➡️Why muscle mass matters for energy balance & weight loss

➡️Losing water and glycogen when you cut carbs and how this leads to quick 'weight loss'

➡️Accounting for your system and individual differences

➡️Why you need to understand your specific body energy balance

➡️Calories in vs calories out

➡️Building muscle and how long it actually takes

➡️The importance of muscle mass

➡️What it takes to maintain

➡️How to make tracking easier and how to simplify it

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SHOW NOTES

02:20 - Kate's background

04:34 - Prometabolic is not a diet

04:46 - How to start on a pro-metabolic approach

05:56 - Why tracking ACCURATELY is essential

06:56 - How restricting carbs can lead to binge eating

07:19 - What is energy balance

09:22 - Why looking at body composition is important and how strength training will help improve it

12:25 - Constipation and why its a metabolic issue

14:46 - Are you afraid to strength train because you think you will get bulky?

17:18 - Playing the long game

17:41 - Why you must be in a calorie deficit to lose weight

17:58 - Muscle glycogen and water

19:21 - Eating too much too quickly

20:55 - Going out on the weekends and over-consuming fat

22:24 - Establishing where you at currently and why this is important

29:08 - Increase the resting metabolic weight

26:56- What it really takes to gain muscle

33:28 - How it's easy to maintain muscle mass once you've built it

34:41 - How stress affects muscle growth

38:02 - Keeping it simple and how it will make it much easier to be consistent with your nutrition

39:35 - Why tracking isn't restrictive

43:09 - Looking at things differently



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