Hello, my beautiful people, and welcome back to another episode of Hot Healthy,

and ever hungry, episode two of six of my free six-part series on The Missing Piece,

that's holding you back from shedding body fat. We're going to get right into today's episode.

It is on protein.

And I've got to be so honest with you, one of the largest missing pieces that I have consistently

seen every single year, every month, every week in my career.

Is women thinking they're eating high protein or they are

aware of protein's importance? Yet, every single meal is not sufficient for enough protein to really

help them shed body fat. Now, I want to lay some ground rules here.

I don't want you to be a bodybuilder and I don't want you to feel like you need to chug

Greek yogurt, cottage cheese, and protein shakes to be fit because that's not the vibe.

That's not what I do, not what I promote, and not necessary. That being said, I want to be ultra specific here.

If you are struggling to shed body fat and we were to look back at your food logs and in your

meals, if we see many meals that pack less than 20 grams of protein. I'm talking like 15 grams of protein.

Usually what that tells me is number one, and this isn't as common, is number one, you're

eating protein, but the portions are just not right. Like you're eating a high quality protein,

but maybe you're having like one ounce, one and a half, two ounces of chicken or fish or something like that.

So you're not quite hitting the threshold to really balance out your meal.

And so as a result, you're probably adding calories from other macros, of course, to hit a reasonable amount of calories, get full within your day, whatever.

So that's one situation.

But oftentimes what actually is more so going on here is you're not even having that protein

source on your plate. And why protein is so important is because it is heavily related to

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