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The Flexible Dieting Lifestyle Podcast

Calories vs. Hormones Debate

The Flexible Dieting Lifestyle Podcast

The Flexible Dieting Lifestyle

Fitness, Health & Fitness, Nutrition

5.0 • 635 Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2019

⏱️ 26 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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In this episode, we discuss the ever-so popular debate of your calories vs. your hormones. To start things off, we talk about what is actually happening (2:01). In one corner, you have calories in vs. calories out and in the other corner, you have the hormone model. The hormone model, which is also known as the carb model, says that you get a spike in insulin when you eat carbs. However, research shows that insulin doesn’t have the role that people believe it does (6:13) and that it will raise whether coming from a carb or protein source. This is because your body sees nutrients as nutrients and nothing less or more (8:50).

Moving on, we explain fat storage and the process of how your body stores body fat (9:30), as well as how our hormones affect our metabolic rate (14:49). The punch line here is that not only are your hormones are important, but will impact your hunger levels (19:13). Yes, your hormones can cause you to burn less energy but if you want to lose weight, you can drop your energy intake. Remember that you need a certain amount of dietary fat to produce those life giving hormones that are necessary to put you in the best position to succeed (22:28).

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0:00.0

Welcome to the flexible dining lifestyle podcast.

0:12.7

I'm your host, Zach Rushelo.

0:14.1

I'm with my co-host, Miguel Blakut, and you guys have been asking for this episode for a very long time.

0:20.0

We're going to try and make it a

0:21.8

one-off episode of literally 20 to 30 minutes of just straight fire you guys have been asking for

0:28.6

the the calories in versus calories out versus hormones debate you guys have been this is you see this

0:35.7

all over social media. Your hormones, your

0:38.4

hormones, they're all out of whack. You just need to fix your hormones. But then there's the other

0:43.8

side. It's like, well, you just need to eat less calories. And we're trying to be on as on bias as

0:49.1

possible and just give you guys all the tools necessary to make a rational decision on what

0:53.2

has actually happening here.

0:54.5

So super excited for this episode. But before we again, please take a screenshot, post this up

0:59.0

on your Instagram story, let people know that you're listening to the podcast, especially

1:02.8

that you're listening to this episode, because this is going to be a huge one that is going to

1:07.0

be highly applicable to what you're going to be seeing on social now and in the future.

1:12.5

And then also, if you could go to your iTunes or wherever you're listening to the podcast, do some type of review.

1:19.3

If you've taken any benefit from the podcast, it means the world from us.

1:23.1

It means the world to us if you do that.

1:25.5

And we appreciate that so much.

1:26.8

You guys have been absolutely

1:27.6

crushing it so thank you guys but let's get into the actual episode Miguel before we begin

1:35.3

we need to understand that think of this as like a UFC fight or a boxing match we have one

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