What is going on everybody? Welcome back to the Mind Over Macros Podcast as always. I am your host Mike Milner.

And today's episode is inspired by one of my IG followers who asked me a phenomenal question in the

DMs and it's a topic that is incredibly valuable.

So I appreciate you, you know who you are once you hear the topic.

I told you I would do an episode on this and I was not lying.

It's pretty much where I get my inspiration from most of the time.

Because if one person has the question, usually most people are wondering

or a lot of other people are wondering the same thing

and the question was if I have a significant amount of weight to lose like a hundred

pounds or so why can't I just eat in a calorie deficit until I reach

my goal? And man, actually just gonna goop's goosebumps reading that which is strange because there's nothing like anyway.

It's I guess the reason is probably because so many people think this way and it ends up making things so much more difficult

than they need to be and I'm all about keeping it simple and understanding I

think this is this is really key. Understanding the reason why that doesn't work and why it

actually makes things more complicated down the road.

So we had a great back and forth and she was like, hey, if you've done any episodes on this?

And I'm like, kind of, like you can go back

and listen to episodes that I've done on metabolic priming on reverse dieting on things like that on you know the cost of under eating I did an episode that was called why eating too little is making you fat I think that was the title

So you can get an understanding but I don't think I've ever done an episode that

explicitly answers the question as to why can we not just eat in a calorie deficit and coast to the goal and then reverse out of it and wipe our hands and be done.

And it's a really valid point because as she was expressing, like when you take phases and you go like if I go into a

deficit and I lose a certain amount of weight and I have a hundred pounds to

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