Hello everyone welcome back to Fit Body Happy Joints. My name is Shannon.

Last week's episode was all about exercise and leanness and I highly recommend listening to that

episode if you haven't already but in that episode I talk about how exercise is shown to be pretty ineffective for fat loss.

Studies show that exercise alone may result in very, very small amounts of weight loss, but without nutritional changes, fat loss is fairly

insignificant if you're just using exercise alone. But we've been sold that if you work out more

and if you work out harder, then you can drink your body.

And this is just really not how it works and I break it down and try to educate as much as I can in last

week's episode using lots of studies and research.

Exercise may help with your metabolic flexibility,

with your glucose regulation, which can improve your body's ability to use

fat as fuel, but nutrition is the main key if fat loss is your goal and I'm a

broken record I don't love to talk about fat loss and weight loss because

Evelo is not a weight loss program I

always say we're a muscle building program because again I just don't think

exercise is very effective for fat loss in general but I also want to make sure that those of you who do have weight loss goals or you do want to get leaner, that you are getting information that's reliable, you're getting up-to-date information so that you're able to use this information to make educated

decisions towards your goals because I think that if a lot of us are just left the devices of social media,

we might be getting information that isn't valid or reliable.

So in this episode, I bring on an awesome registered dietician

and she is actually an EFLo member and she talks about nutrition and leanness.

So my guest today is Hope Fitzgerald Brant, she's a registered dietician and not only does Hope talk about the science of

fat loss from her experience and her education as a registered dietician and as an

expert in this but she has her own personal experience with weight loss that she talks about.

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