#156 // Top-5 Reasons You're NOT Losing Weight
Fitness Stuff (for normal people)
Tony and Marianna
4.9 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 17 February 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
You ever do all the right things and still feel like nothing is working? Like when you water a plant every day, give it sunlight, even talk to it, and somehow it still dies. Or when you're doing everything right to lose fat—hitting the gym every other day, prepping your meals, even sending up a little prayer—but the scale won’t budge. It’s frustrating, and we’ve all been there. In this episode of Fitness Stuff for Normal People, we’re breaking down the five biggest reasons you’re not losing weight, even when it feels like you’re doing everything right. Spoiler: it’s probably not what you think.
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Timestamps:
(15:14) Underestimating Calories In
(16:30) Overestimating Calories Out
(24:22) You're Not Moving Enough
(30:35) Your Lifestyle Sucks
(41:24) You Aren't Consistent / Your Expectations Aren't Realistic
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Do you ever just do all the right things and what you're trying to do just still doesn't work? |
| 0:06.5 | Like when you water a plant every day and you give it sunlight and you even talk to it and it still |
| 0:11.8 | dies. Like what else do you want for me? Or when it comes to losing fat, you hit the gym every other |
| 0:16.7 | day. You prep your meals. You might even pray about it. But the scale still doesn't move. That's what |
| 0:22.3 | we're talking about today. The five biggest reasons that you are not losing weight even though |
| 0:27.1 | you think you should be. That's what we're here for. And if you want more after each episode, |
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