Calorie Deficit University

Ask Me A Question For Next Week's Episode! Sign Up For Coaching With Me: HERE . In this episode: 1. Leptin & the brain. 2. The causes of leptin resistance. 3. The implications of leptin resistance. 4. Leptin in obese individuals. 5. How leptin works in the body. 6. How to reverse and treat leptin resistance. 7. Leptin resistance in dieting. 8. Hope and a path forward. Find me on Instagram:...

Ask Me A Question For Next Week's Episode! Sign Up For Coaching With Me: HERE . In this podcast episode: 1. What is insulin resistance? What causes it? 2. Can insulin resistance cause weight gain? 3. The simple science breakdown. 4. Does insulin resistance make it difficult to lose weight? Does insulin make it impossible to lose weight? 5. Why does insulin resistance seem to make it difficult...

Ask Me A Question For Next Week's Episode! Sign Up For Coaching With Me: HERE . In this episode: What is starvation mode? - a buzzword in the online fitness industry  Fallacy belief that when you try to lose weight, your body goes into something called starvation mode that prevents you from shedding fat mass.  Everything you eat turns to fat mass.  Metabolism is broken or damaged.  There is no...

Ask Me A Question For Next Week's Episode! Sign Up For Coaching With Me: HERE . In this episode: 1. We talk about the aMCC 2. Answer the question: are you really just lazy? 3. The search for Allostasis 4. Physiological understanding of motivation. 5. Managing allostatic load. 6. Doing hard things makes motivation easier. 7. Depression and the aMCC 8. Exercise, obesity and the aMCC 9. Resilienc...

Ask Me A Question For Next Week's Episode! Sign Up For Coaching With Me: HERE . *******There is an audio issue at the end of this episode (about 5 mins left). Just turn up your volume, it's there. Sorry about that. Included in this episode: 1. Let’s be honest about it - if you want to lose weight or change your body composition in a significant way you are going to have to do two things....

Ask Me A Question For Next Week's Episode! Sign Up For Coaching With Me: HERE . Included in this episode: Binge eating will not make your problems go away.  Guilt and shame.  It takes you away from actually achieving your goals. You set a goal, self sabotage and end up really frustrated with yourself.  What is binge eating?  What is overeating? There is a difference.  There are practical solut...

Ask Me A Question For Next Week's Episode! Included in this episode: Over 43% of menopausal women have obesity.  **hormonal changes don’t just happen to women. We need to be focused on preventative measures to live your most fulfilled, aging life.  For many women there is a decrease in estrogen and progesterone, combined with general aging, that triggers metabolic changes in the body. More oft...

Ask Me A Question For Next Week's Episode! Included in this episode: Predisposed outlooks we see in the world around us.  Patterns of thinking or beliefs  Tendencies that are inaccurate or untrue  The potential to inflict psychological harm  Admitting you have false beliefs and distorted thoughts may be terrifying but no good comes from relieving these facilities daily.  Cognitive reframing/re...

Ask Me A Question For Next Week's Episode! DISCLAIMER - low calorie diets are not ideal and I don’t support them. My ideal situation would be more activity.  Included in this episode:  Are low calorie diets ideal? No.  Is it more ideal to be more active? Yes.  Before supporting a lower calorie diet, I am always going to be a huge advocate for becoming way more active.  When you are sedentary,...

Ask Me A Question For Next Week's Episode! Included in this episode: - if you struggle with weight loss but you still keep going and stay at it, you need to acknowledge your courage.  - it is not a weakness to feel like giving up.  - if you feel like giving up over and over and over again yet you still keep going that’s grit, that’s guts, that’s courage.  - You keep going even though you’re mi...

Ask Me A Question For Next Week's Episode! In this episode:  1. Picking your realistic goal.  2. Finding your calories to match your goal.  3. Doing some MATH!!!! WOOHOO!  4. Walking through fats, protein and carbs.  5. Why numbers on MFP and online don't really work.  6. Data data data and overall consumption to drive your goals.  Ekkovision - Code LEX Join the coaching community for the...

Ask Me A Question For Next Week's Episode! Included in this episode: 1. Nervous system regulation. 2. Getting ready to actually enter a fat loss phase. 3. Having maturity and self awareness to enter into a fat loss phase and maintain healthy living long term. 4. Being ready to approach weight, health and fat loss from a place of detachment/having dealt with your emotions healthily and appropri...

Ask Me A Question For Next Week's Episode! Included in this episode: 1. Habits, behaviors and mindset of someone who will not lose weight or feels stuck in weight loss. 2. Areas of improvement. 3. Solutions - lack of self control and how to control your urges. 4. People swear they are fighting demons, when the whole time they’re fighting the consequences of their choices.  Ekkovision - Code LE...

Ask Me A Question For Next Week's Episode! Included in this episode: 1. How to make a meal plan for yourself based on your macros. 2. Math of working back your macros from calories. 3. Adherence chat about achieving goals through macro tracking.  Ekkovision - Code LEX Join the coaching community for the New Year habits challenge: (affordable strength training and coaching):  https://www.patreo...

Ask Me A Question For Next Week's Episode! In this episode: 1. If you feel like you lack accountability, you might fall into one of these categories or a few of them. 2. Accountability isn't magic. Discipline isn't either. It's usually something deeper.  3. Most people lie to themselves and don't have integrity. Coaching won't fix that.  4. Everyone has to take account...

Ask Me A Question For Next Week's Episode! In this episode:  1. What is food noise?  2. Why do some deal with it while others don't?  3. What can we do about?  4. Reality check and fix that isn't quick :(  Ekkovision - Code LEX Join the coaching community for the New Year habits challenge: (affordable strength training and coaching):  https://www.patreon.com/CalorieDeficitUniversity/...

Ask Me A Question For Next Week's Episode! Included in this episode:  What is the difference - athletic body fat vs healthy body fat  No flexibility  Food is different  Training vs working out/exercising  Supplements  Cardio  Ekkovision - Code LEX Join the coaching community for the New Year habits challenge: (affordable strength training and coaching):  https://www.patreon.com/CalorieDeficitU...

Ask Me A Question For Next Week's Episode! In this episode:  1. Disclaimer  2. Therapy and different practices  3. Medical care and total health/healing  4. Life changes  5. Nutrition, protein, fats 6. Training  7. Routines  8. What we aren't going to do  9. Love, acceptance, encouragement  Ekkovision - Code LEX Join the coaching community for the New Year habits challenge: (affordable st...

Ask Me A Question For Next Week's Episode! In this episode we talk about:  1. The classic dieter that says they are only eating 800-1200 calories a day and not losing weight.  2. Ultimately how to hack your life and put time back on the clock - the most precious resource.  Ekkovision - Code LEX Join the coaching community for the New Year habits challenge: (affordable strength training and coa...

Ask Me A Question For Next Week's Episode! In this episode: 1. How to get out of your own funk!  Ekkovision - Code LEX Join the coaching community for the New Year habits challenge: (affordable strength training and coaching):  https://www.patreon.com/CalorieDeficitUniversity/membership Want to sign up for the one on one coaching waiting list? https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdYJp_eLA...

Ask Me A Question For Next Week's Episode! In this episode:  Romanticize your life - or the life of being lean.  Restorative and restful practices:  Baths, care management - like hygiene, washing bed sheets, cleaning your house  Magnesium bedtime ritual  Walking and journaling  Mindful morning - coffee or tea ritual  Engaging with food and exercise outside of your diet  Making meals with frien...

Ask Me A Question For Next Week's Episode! In this episode:  No one wants to be overweight  Food addiction is no joke  Coping  You will never feel free until you deal with your trauma  No one got to being 500 lbs because they liked sugar a little too much  Accept the positive aspects of the body positive movement and reject the negative  The positives: no promoting being dangerously or unsusta...

Ask Me A Question For Next Week's Episode! In this episode we talk about: 1. How to get abs 2. The pros and cons of having abs. 3. The role genetics plays in having abs. 4. Body fat percentages and abs. 5. How to get lean enough and how diet and exercise plays a huge role. 6. The impact of social media and comparing yourself to someone's snapshot of abs.  Ekkovision - Code LEX Join the co...

Ask Me A Question For Next Week's Episode! In this episode:  1. It's math.  2. It's you. Life is hard.  3. Maybe you're not ready to diet.  4. You're not being honest with yourself.  5. The four questions to ask yourself to get to the root of why.  Ekkovision - Code LEX Join the coaching community for the New Year habits challenge: (affordable strength training and coaching...

Ask Me A Question For Next Week's Episode! Included in this episode: An in depth educational episode about your own macro and micronutrients to be successful in any aspect of your diet or future physique goals.  Ekkovision - Code LEX Join the coaching community for the New Year habits challenge: (affordable strength training and coaching):  https://www.patreon.com/CalorieDeficitUniversity/memb...