Okay. What is up, everyone? Welcome back to the fitness staff for normal people podcast. I'm

Mariana. And I'm Tony. And the fitness industry right now kind of sucks. And we want to make it

suck less. We want to make it a positive and happy space where you learn. And the goal of this

overall podcast is to actually give you the knowledge and tools so you have confidence in applying

the best possible training and nutrition into your own lives and to help avoid a lot of

the myths and misconceptions you see on social media. And today, we're talking about something

really important. Calories. Calories matter a lot, but they aren't the only thing that matters.

Once everyone figured out that in order to lose weight, you must put yourself in a calorie deficit,

it turned into almost this obsession, where that is the only thing in the world that matters.

But there is a huge difference between eating for calories and eating

to fuel your body with what it needs to thrive. There's a difference between burning calories

in the gym and getting fit. And that's what we are going to distinguish between today.

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