#91 - Metabolism Myths: 5 Lies Holding You Back From Fat Loss
Choose Hard with Cody McBroom
Cody McBroom
4.8 • 812 Ratings
🗓️ 6 January 2026
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Most people think their metabolism is broken. They believe age, stress, past dieting, or “eating too little” has permanently damaged their ability to lose fat—and that belief keeps them stuck.
In this episode of the Choose Hard Podcast, I break down what metabolism actually is, how it truly works, and why most of the fear-based narratives around fat loss are flat-out wrong.
You’ll learn why metabolic adaptation is normal, not harmful… why weight loss doesn’t stall because your metabolism is “slow”… and how understanding Total Daily Energy Expenditure (TDEE) gives you back control of your results.
This episode is for anyone who:
- Feels like fat loss “used to be easier”
- Is afraid of dieting because they don’t want to “damage” their metabolism
- Has blamed hormones, age, or genetics for stalled progress
- Wants science-based clarity instead of fear-mongering
In this episode, we cover:
- What metabolism really is (and what it isn’t)
- Why you cannot break your metabolism
- How and why metabolism adapts during fat loss
- The 4 components of Total Daily Energy Expenditure (TDEE): Resting Metabolic Rate (RMR), Thermic Effect of Food (TEF), Exercise Activity Thermogenesis (EAT), & Non-Exercise Activity Thermogenesis (NEAT)
- The most common metabolism myths that sabotage fat loss
- Why behavior—not biology—is usually the real bottleneck
If you want sustainable fat loss without fear, confusion, or extremes, this episode will give you the clarity you’ve been missing.
Resources:
- https://tailoredcoachingmethod.com/metabolic-adaptation/
- https://tailoredcoachingmethod.com/tdee-calculator/
- https://tailoredcoachingmethod.com/faq
- https://tailoredcoachingmethod.com/metabolism-myths/
- https://tailoredcoachingmethod.com/reverse-dieting-101/
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| 0:00.0 | The Choose Hard podcast. I'm your host Cody McBroom. I am a father, husband, entrepreneur, |
| 0:04.3 | and the CEO and founder of tailored coaching method, a world-renowned online fitness and nutrition |
| 0:10.2 | coaching company. In this episode of the podcast, I'm going to give you the crash course on |
| 0:14.9 | understanding your metabolism. I'm going to teach you what your metabolism is, what it does, |
| 0:19.8 | why it's important, and how it affects and impacts the results you see. I'm also going to teach you what your metabolism is, what it does, why it's important, and how it affects and impacts the results you see. |
| 0:24.2 | I'm also going to break down the five main reasons why people blame their metabolism for their lack of progress in their fat loss results, |
| 0:33.0 | even though all five of those things aren't actually true. |
| 0:37.3 | So listen, learn everything you need to know |
| 0:39.1 | about your metabolism, and begin to eliminate the excuses you are making and dispel the myths that |
| 0:44.8 | you've believed surrounding your metabolism and fat loss. The greatest things in life all start |
| 0:52.4 | with a challenge. |
| 0:57.0 | You must accept that everything is hard before it gets easy. |
| 1:01.5 | Everything you want in life begins with a hard path. |
| 1:13.0 | Before we jump into the subject of the metabolism, which I'm excited for because I feel like this is a very nuanced topic, but it doesn't need to be as complicated as people make it out to be. I think |
| 1:19.1 | the metabolism is something that we should all be aware of. We should all understand how our |
| 1:23.9 | metabolism works, but we shouldn't let it become a fear-mongering aspect of the diet. |
| 1:31.0 | And I think the discovery of metabolic adaptation, and specifically when it was termed as |
| 1:36.7 | metabolic damage originally, which is not the case, I think it turned into a fear-mongering thing. |
| 1:43.1 | I think people were so afraid to diet because they thought that they were going to break their metabolism. |
| 1:47.6 | They thought everything was going to get ruined and that their body was not going to work with them over the long haul. |
| 1:53.6 | And that's just not the case. |
| 1:54.6 | It's just really not that complicated. |
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