Hello guys and welcome to the Lean of Plants podcast. I'm Chelsea, former overweight, healthy vegan,

confused about why I couldn't look like my favorite plant-based influences, even though I was

chugging back green smoothies every day. After a decade of unsustainable vegan diets,

I learned the truth about weight loss, lost 40 pounds,

and now I'm in the best shape of my life even after two kids.

Girl, if you've been struggling to drop the pounds as a vegan,

stuck in a cycle of self-sabotage, sick of yo-yo

dieting and going hungry, never being able to get and stay lean, then this is the podcast

for you. Each week I share the no BS truth about why vegan women are overweight, the action

steps to get you shedding fat and the

mindset you'll need to get slim for life. I'm stoked to have you here. Let's get started.

All right, so hi guys.

In this live, I'm going to talk a little bit about calories because it's a question that people are constantly asking me and it's a question that I had for a very long time.

So if you want to hear more about calories, how they fit into your diet, you need to know then listen up and I

also want to answer some questions if anyone's hello hello guys I'm seeing some

names coming up all right so all right today I got a question and it was there was a

girl that was asking me what do I do if I can't eat those

kind of portion sizes that you what if I what do I do if I can't eat enough calories and

so this is a question that I people have asked me for because what is the root what

is the root issue with this kind of question? The question is, can you eat too few

calories? All right? And the short answer is the issue when you are losing away is not that

you can eat too few calories. It's that by eating very little calories, you end up eating

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