Lex Babb

Calorie Deficit University

Health EN ↓ 189 episodes

Looking for Coaching? Contact Lex here: https://caloriedeficituniversity.com/ or email directly at babbconsultant@gmail.com.  Top Health and Fitness Education Podcast - Telling someone to move more and eat less is not helpful - especially if you are interested in finding freedom from food and shaping your physique or feeling strong. We know that a calorie deficit is the only way to lose weight but what exactly does that mean and how do you achieve it? We dive deep into the extreme nuances of weight, physique, behavioral sciences, fitness, training and coaching so you can have the knowledge you...

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Lex Babb

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Health

Latest episode

Nov 21, 2025

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Episodes

Calorie Leak: Sneaky Calories and How They Keep You At Maintenance 16.05.2025

Ask Me A Question For Next Week's Episode! Included in this episode: 1. What is calorie leak?  2. Why it even matters.  3. How do you stop calorie leak?  Sign Up For Coaching With Me: HERE . https://caloriedeficituniversity.com/

Skinny Tok & People Like Liv Schmidt 09.05.2025

Ask Me A Question For Next Week's Episode! Included in this episode: 1. Who is Liv Schmidt and what is Skinny Tok?  2. Context, context, context.   3. Is it them or is it you?  4. Looking at her posts.  5. Everything in the media is BAIT.  6. Nothing that you see online is real.  7. Propaganda and consumer behavior influence is the name of the game.  8. My opinion: don't consume content t...

Is Your Metabolism Broken? 02.05.2025

Ask Me A Question For Next Week's Episode! Included in this episode:  1. What is your metabolism?  2. Metabolic rates: BMR, thermic affect of food, NEAT.  3. Your metabolism never stops.  4. Two main process of metabolism.  5. When it comes to weight loss: what your metabolism does.  6. Your metabolism is adaptive.  7. Are there metabolic disorders? YES.  8. How to improve your metabolic healt...

Everything You Need To Know About Carbs 25.04.2025

Ask Me A Question For Next Week's Episode! Included in this episode: 1. Carbs are important for a healthy overall diet.  2. You cannot be afraid of carbs. You need them!  3. Carbohydrate intakes.  4. Healthy carbs to include in your diet.  5. Why are carbs so important?  6. People don't eat enough healthy carbs at all!  Sign Up For Coaching With Me: HERE . https://caloriedeficituniversity...

Rapid Fat Loss vs. Slow & Steady 18.04.2025

Ask Me A Question For Next Week's Episode! Included in this episode: 1. What's the difference between the two and what is right for you?  2. Most people want to lose weight fast but even rapid fast loss doesn't ever seem to be enough.  3. What is rapid fat loss?  4. What is slow and steady fat loss?  5. How do you know what is best for you?  6. Slow and steady fat loss is for most pe...

Do You Deserve It? Asking & Answering Hard Questions 11.04.2025

Ask Me A Question For Next Week's Episode! Included in this episode: 1. This episode might not be for you and that's OKAY.  2. Accountability challenge.  3. When you get frustrated about your lack of results, here are some logical questions we can ask.  4. It's easier for my brain to get really angry at my lack of results than my lack of consistent action.  5. "If you're to...

The Fall of Our Food System: Why It Feels Like Everyone Is Struggling With Weight These Days 04.04.2025

Ask Me A Question For Next Week's Episode! ***correction, 40% of the food supply is wasted annually. Included in this episode: 1. This episode is not comprehensive enough by any means.  2. How far behind the United States falls with overall health compared to the global stage. The facts.  3. Dr. Jess Knurick, PhD, RDN.  4. Where did it all go wrong - a short history on agriculture and politics...

Build Your Dream Body: How To Effectively and Optimally Train, The Basics 28.03.2025

Ask Me A Question For Next Week's Episode! Included in this episode:  1. The core principles of training effectively.  2. Generic crash course.  3. Creating your own program 4. The best split types  5. Core movements 6. Reps & sets 7. Strength & hypertrophy  8. Tempo & rest  9. Training hard enough  10. The no - nos and must dos.  Sign Up For Coaching With Me: HERE . https://calori...

Low Fat and High Fat Diets Don't Work: Everything Fats 21.03.2025

Ask Me A Question For Next Week's Episode! Included in this episode: 1. Everyone seems to have an opinion about fat.  2. Healthy fats are vital to both weight loss and a healthy diet.  3. A low fat diet is a bad place to be for women.  4. How much healthy fat should you eat daily?  5. What are healthy fats to prioritize?  6. Fats helps with overall satiation and weight management.  Sign Up For...

"i can't lose weight" 14.03.2025

Ask Me A Question For Next Week's Episode! Included in this episode: 1. Weight loss is much more than just diet and exercise.  2. A vital part of the weight loss conversation that is often missing is contextualization and nuance.  3. You are a whole person and we have to treat you that way.  4. The magic sauce: nutrition management, calorie science & application, behavior science & med...

What To Eat To Lose Weight & Live A Healthy Life 07.03.2025

Ask Me A Question For Next Week's Episode! Included in this episode: 1. Updated dietary guidelines and recommendations that 90% of Americans DO NOT meet.  2. Exactly what you need to be eating day and in day out - backed by science, no gimmicks or bull crap.  3. How most Americans are widely under fueling their daily diets.  4. Exactly why you're so hungry all of the time and fail every d...

Why Is Losing Weight So Hard? 28.02.2025

Ask Me A Question For Next Week's Episode! Sign Up For Coaching With Me: HERE . https://caloriedeficituniversity.com/ Included in this episode: 1. Application of mechanics for losing weight is hard.  2. The ability to accept the abstract is a skill.  3. Ambition without action becomes anxiety.  4. We are not meant to live in this food environment.  5. You are programmed to pick a familiar hell...

Fiber: The Missing Link To Health & Feeling Full 21.02.2025

Ask Me A Question For Next Week's Episode! Sign Up For Coaching With Me: HERE . https://caloriedeficituniversity.com/ Included in this episode: 1. What is fiber?  2. What are the benefits of fiber?  3. What are good sources of fiber?  4. The differences between soluble fiber and insoluble fiber.  5. How much fiber you should be eating.  6. Stop relying on fiber products.  7. Practical steps to...

Everything Protein: Debunking Dangerous Myths About Food 14.02.2025

Ask Me A Question For Next Week's Episode! Sign Up For Coaching With Me: HERE . https://caloriedeficituniversity.com/ Included in this episode:  1. Protein is the powerhouse of the nutrients.  2. What protein does for you.  3. How much protein should you be eating for your goals?  4. Can you overeat protein?  5. Debunking myths about red meat.  6. Why red meat is good for you.  7. The best pro...

What Is Discipline & How Do You Get Better At It? 07.02.2025

Ask Me A Question For Next Week's Episode! Sign Up For Coaching With Me: HERE . https://caloriedeficituniversity.com/ Included in this episode:  1. "I wish I was more disciplined". 2. David Goggins mentality vs. Gentle Parenting Extremism  3. What is discipline?  4. Discipline is about you.  5. If you feel like you're not a disciplined person, that is both entirely your fault bu...

How To Successfully Lose Weight Long Term: The Make Or Break Difference 31.01.2025

Ask Me A Question For Next Week's Episode! Sign Up For Coaching With Me: HERE . https://caloriedeficituniversity.com/ Included in this episode:  1. Key indicators someone will be successful with their weight loss or not 2. How emotional maturity really makes all the difference  3. Get a ship that is ready to be captained.  4. Why does emotional maturity make all the difference when it comes to...

What Happens When: "A Calorie Deficit Doesn't Work" 24.01.2025

Ask Me A Question For Next Week's Episode! Sign Up For Coaching With Me: HERE . https://caloriedeficituniversity.com/ Included in this episode: 1. Calorie science denial  2. What is happening if you aren't losing weight but think you're in a calorie deficit  3. How to get better at calorie science 

The Cost of Procrastination is the Life That You Could Have Lived: How To Get Out Of Your Own Way 17.01.2025

Ask Me A Question For Next Week's Episode! Sign Up For Coaching With Me: HERE . Included in this episode:  1. Cognitive dissonance is keeping you stuck and overweight.  2. Self limiting and beliefs and how to fix them.  3. Figuring out the whole picture, a bird's eye view.  4. Taking steps of action, not reaction.  5. Controlling the narrative you tell yourself to control the outcomes.  6...

How To Build Your Dream Physique In TWO Steps 10.01.2025

Ask Me A Question For Next Week's Episode! Sign Up For Coaching With Me: HERE . Included in this episode:  1. Addressing training 2. Training hard enough, to failure with intensity  3. Consistency with your training  4. Stimulating muscle growth  5. How to train hard enough  6. Stop trying to out train a bad diet  7. Eating enough, protein  8. Stop playing macro tetris  9. Honorable mentions:...

No More New Year Resolutions: How To Make Sure Your New Year’s Resolution Lasts 03.01.2025

Ask Me A Question For Next Week's Episode! Sign Up For Coaching With Me: HERE . Included in this episode: 1. No more new years resolutions.  2. Only 9% of people who make new years resolutions actually stick to them.  3. Why do people give up on their resolutions?  4. Why do we not change?  5. Suffering vs. sacrifice mentality.  6. Change your view, change your life.  7. How I can tell who wil...

How To Get Unstuck: Weight Loss, Health & More 20.12.2024

Ask Me A Question For Next Week's Episode! Sign Up For Coaching With Me: HERE . Included in this episode: 1. Avoidance and procrastination 2. Why you are stuck. 3. What you are actually designed to do. 4.  What putting off the hard things will get you. 5. You have to face yourself. 6. Stop settling for things you don't want for yourself. 7. Pay attention to yourself; give yourself the att...

Is Big Food Making You Fat? 13.12.2024

Ask Me A Question For Next Week's Episode! Sign Up For Coaching With Me: HERE . Included in this week's episode: 1. A ground breaking lawsuit filed against big food. 2. What does this lawsuit mean and will it hold? 3. Answering the question: is big food actually making you fat? 4. Radical accountability and what we can do about it. 5. If we choose to be a consumer, we must be educated abo...

How To Fix Your Lack of Motivation 06.12.2024

Ask Me A Question For Next Week's Episode! Sign Up For Coaching With Me: HERE . Included in this episode: 1. Why motivation will never get you what you want. 2. Taking action for proof of ability. 3. Shaping your life to become new. 4. How to get what you want. Find me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/caloriedeficit_/?hl=en TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lexbabb?lang=en

How To Track Your Food Accurately For Weight Loss 22.11.2024

Ask Me A Question For Next Week's Episode! Sign Up For Coaching With Me: HERE . Included in this episode: 1. Why tracking your food is an important tool. 2. How to use tracking as a tool to get what you want. 3. Common mistakes in tracking to easily avoid. 4. Why tracking accuracy is so hard. 5. The importance of data collection and accountability. 6. Consistency is the key to success. Find me...

10 Reasons Why You Aren't Losing Weight 15.11.2024

Ask Me A Question For Next Week's Episode! Sign Up For Coaching With Me: HERE . Included in this episode: Inaccurate tracking  The weekend is catching up with you  Play macro tetris instead of sticking to a plan Movement  Low nutrients  Stress and sleep  Time Too focused on the scale  Lacking self awareness and reflection  Too much variety  Find me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/calor...

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