Hello everyone welcome back to Fit Body Happy Joins. My name is Shannon. I want to talk to you today

about why you may feel like you're doing everything right and not losing weight.

If you followed me you know I'm not a weight loss coach and Evelo is not a weight loss program. But I do

want to educate on this because I feel like there's a lot of frustration and

misunderstanding around this and I want you to feel empowered that you're using your energy in ways that are going to be productive if weight loss is a goal of yours.

One of my biggest frustrations I hear from friends and family who are trying to lose weight is something along the lines of I'm working out you know

5 6 7 times a week and I'm eating clean and I'm still not losing weight. I'm so frustrated.

And listen, it is not their fault because according to the weight loss industry,

they're doing everything right. They're exercising hard,

they're eating whole foods or low-fat foods or whatever the trend is, and they're still

not seeing the dial move.

And so what has often been blamed for their lack of progress is not their program, not what they're eating but it's instead their bodies and a lot of times

what gets blamed is people's hormones can absolutely influence your behavior and I can attest to this because I'm currently breastfeeding

and I am starving all the time and I often eat more than I need because my body is giving me the

signals via hormones that I need more fuel.

It's very difficult for me to control that right now and I'm often not super satisfied by

what I eat and I kind of feel like a bottomless pit. So listen, this is not to gass like you and say

that your hormones are not real or they aren't very difficult

to overcome the drive to overeat or to not feel satisfied or whatever it may be.

So although hormones are absolutely a strong influence in our behavior, they don't negate the laws of

thermodynamics which say that for weight loss energy out has to be greater than energy in.

You have to burn more than you eat.

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