Biggest Protein Mistakes Blocking Your Fat Loss - 1182
The Chalene Show | Diet, Fitness & Life Balance
Chalene Johnson
4.8 • 7.2K Ratings
🗓️ 4 April 2025
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
If you’re eating your protein, tracking your macros, and still not seeing results—this is the follow-up episode you didn’t know you needed. Chalene breaks down the biggest protein mistakes people are making, especially women over 40, that could be sabotaging fat loss, metabolism, and muscle gains. Backed by science and real-life experience, she uncovers the one change that helped her drop weight and reduce the stress around food. If you're ready to age powerfully and stop guessing with your nutrition, this episode is packed with eye-opening truths.
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What You’ll Learn ⬇️
➡️ Why you might be over-consuming calories even when tracking macros
➡️ The difference between setting protein goals based on ideal weight vs. lean body mass
➡️ The truth about muscle loss and why protein timing matters
➡️ What the protein leverage hypothesis is and how it may be sabotaging your satiety
➡️ How to simplify your nutrition without obsessing over numbers or math
➡️ Why protein is even more important during perimenopause and menopause
➡️ What the latest research says about post-workout recovery + metabolism
➡️ How to build muscle, boost your metabolic rate, and finally lose body fat — not just weight
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How Much Protein Do You Really Need
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🤓Research:
Protein intake and metabolism
Post-workout protein consumption and satiety.
- https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7824960/
- https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7539343/#sec10
- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37935299/
Lean body mass vs. total weight to calculate protein needs
Low vs. high protein diets
Protein leverage hypothesis
Even distribution of protein across meals
- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38563983/
- https://jses.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Roberts-et-al.-2022.pdf
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | When it comes to body composition and losing weight, maintaining muscle, changing your shape, |
| 0:05.3 | protein is king. |
| 0:07.7 | Everyone knows this about protein. |
| 0:09.3 | It's all about the protein. |
| 0:11.1 | You know that you're prioritizing protein, yet you're still not getting the results. |
| 0:15.3 | In this episode, I'm going to help you understand the biggest mistakes when it comes to protein |
| 0:19.4 | that you might be making that |
| 0:21.1 | are preventing you from achieving your goals. |
| 0:25.6 | And I know all about this with first-hand knowledge because I was making all those mistakes. |
| 0:30.4 | I was listening to the same research, the same suggestions. |
| 0:33.6 | I was following the recommendations. |
| 0:35.5 | I was killing myself to hit my protein goals. And despite that, |
| 0:39.8 | I was gaining weight. So today, not only am I going to share with you like the biggest mistakes |
| 0:43.9 | that people are making as it pertains to protein, backed by research and studies, of course, |
| 0:49.3 | recent research. Today I'm also going to share with you one of the biggest mistakes that I think |
| 0:54.1 | a lot of you might be making. It's not well researched. I'm going going to share with you one of the biggest mistakes that I think a lot of you might be making. |
| 0:56.6 | It's not well researched. |
| 0:57.7 | I'm going to tell you that. |
| 0:58.8 | But it's a mistake I was making. |
| 1:00.8 | And the more women I talk to, the more I find out they've been doing this too, especially women of a certain age. |
| 1:07.5 | So I'm going to share that with you. |
| 1:08.7 | I'm going to tell you how I fixed it. And I think |
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