Hi friends, welcome back to the podcast. Today we are continuing on our metabolism series and I am

busting some myths on metabolism. So we're going to break down the myths. What I hear most often about

metabolism, I think I have four on here, explain what's actually true and help you understand how to

work with your metabolism and not against it. That way you can

start seeing results and stop spinning your wheels. So the first one I have on here is I can't lose weight

because my metabolism is slow or broken. This is probably the most common thing that I hear from

women and I totally get it because when you feel like you're doing

all of the things right you it feels like you're eating in a calorie deficit and you're getting

your steps in and you're going to the gym and working out and the scale is not budging it's very

easy to think that there's something wrong with you it's almost more hopeful to be like

there you know to think that there's a thing that we can

blame versus taking a step back and realizing that, you know, maybe it's our consistency or

other things. But again, it's easier to blame something external rather than looking inward.

So I definitely hear this all the time. I know

that I went through this too where I thought that I probably had thyroid issues because it

runs in my family or something wrong with my metabolism and it was just I was super inconsistent.

And that's not the case for everybody. But the point I want to make here is that we cannot

break our metabolism.

It is adaptive.

So if you feel like it is slow, then there's likely a reason for that.

When, if you're someone, like I did, maybe you were under-eating for a long time, but then you

were also having these bouts of

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