Weight loss and calories: what really matters?
Most clients who come to me for help losing weight have been focusing on the wrong things for years. ⠀ They’ve literally spent years of their life (and hundreds of their dollars) focusing on keeping their calories in, low, and their calories out, high.⠀ That vicious cycle of diet, exercise, repeat.⠀ They’re so focused on the things they THINK influence their total daily energy expenditure (TDEE) that they miss out on the things that actually DO influence it.⠀ Weight loss and calories: what really matters? Here are three other things that impact your TDEE that you might not be thinking about:⠀ BMR – basal metabolic rate – this is the number of calories you burn at rest and it is based on how much muscle you have (why I encourage choosing strength training over cardio) as well as the physical ‘shape’ your heart, lungs, and other organs are in. You CAN control how much muscle you have on your body to increase your overall rate. ⠀ TEF – thermic effect of food – this is the