356. Am I Eating Too Much Or Too Little For Fat Loss?
Hot, Healthy, Never Hungry
Lauren Hubert MS, RD
4.9 • 616 Ratings
🗓️ 15 January 2026
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
If social media has you feeling confused about how you should be eating for your goals, you're going to love this episode.
On today's episode, I'm breaking down exactly how much you should be eating for fat loss — and whether most women are actually not eating enough or eating too much.
I'm sharing some honest, important real talk on why social media gets this conversation so wrong, and how that misinformation is actively preventing many women from losing fat. I also walk you through the different scenarios I see as a Registered Dietitian when someone is unknowingly overeating versus unintentionally undereating and sabotaging their progress, so you can gain clear insight into what may be keeping you stuck.
By the end of this episode, you'll feel confident about what — and how much — you should be eating for fat loss. You'll learn how to find your calorie deficit sweet spot, stop the restrict-then-overeat cycle, and finally make sense of why your weight hasn't been moving.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, my beautiful people. Welcome back to another episode of hot, healthy, never hungry, |
| 0:13.7 | emphasis on the never hungry for today's episode, because we are talking about if you are eating |
| 0:19.0 | too much or too little for the goal of fat loss, |
| 0:22.8 | which I think is a really timely episode for this time of year, specifically because I feel |
| 0:30.1 | like social media confuses us about this question. So many women I have worked with over the years |
| 0:36.9 | are really confused about how much food they really should be eating for fat loss. |
| 0:43.1 | And what I mean by that before you roll your eyes, if you're rolling your eyes, is we have trouble understanding how much we're consuming. |
| 0:52.2 | There is a ton of social media content, and I'd say it's almost like |
| 0:56.0 | even a trend right now where we're telling women to eat more. But if we're not shedding weight, |
| 1:02.5 | the advice to eat more is weird, because why would we eat more if the amount of food we're eating |
| 1:09.4 | right now, we might be overeating in the first place, |
| 1:11.3 | and that's why we're not seeing progress. But then there's this whole narrative where if you're |
| 1:15.1 | not eating enough, that's why you're not losing weight. But it's kind of perpetuated and almost |
| 1:21.0 | like had a domino effect into women believing and these, in my opinion, fake practitioners |
| 1:27.2 | online who are just spewing inaccurate |
| 1:29.1 | information, making women think their body is holding on to weight because they're drastically |
| 1:35.1 | underfueling their bodies. Now, I am not here to promote underfueling in any capacity as a registered |
| 1:39.4 | dietitian. However, what is very important to keep in mind is if you're eating less calories, you're going to shed weight until you have no more weight to lose and you're, and you're freaking dead. |
| 1:52.3 | So this idea that you're under eating is why your weight is stuck. And if you ate more food, then your weight will get unstuck. |
| 1:59.4 | It's not really painting the full picture. So that's why for today's episode, this is what we're diving into. I'm going to answer the question, are you eating too much or too little for fat loss and give it to you real? I'm not holding back. I'm going to describe a few quick situations where you're eating too much food, and that's why you're stuck. I'm going to describe a few quick situations when you're eating too little, and of course, you know what's coming, why you're stuck. And then I'm also going to |
| 2:21.2 | give you suggestions to find your calorie deficit sweet spot, which is something I refer to a lot |
| 2:26.5 | inside coaching. So you're getting a little coaching moment with me, just like I do with my clients. |
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