Ep 12 / How To Burn The Calories You Eat
Fitness Stuff (for normal people)
Tony and Marianna
4.9 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 11 July 2022
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
How you thought you burn calories might be all wrong. In this episode Tony and Marianna break down something called your TDEE - or Total Daily Energy Expenditure. This episode is in response to the broken logic of thinking you need to exercise off the calories you eat in order to lose weight.
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| 0:00.0 | What's up, everyone? |
| 0:01.0 | Welcome back to the Fitness Stuff podcast where our goal is to make exercise and nutrition science practical. |
| 0:07.6 | We're here to expose misinformation in the industry by providing only evidence-based education. |
| 0:13.2 | Where today we're talking about where we burn calories throughout our day, specifically your total daily energy expenditure. |
| 0:55.5 | Tony, how are we today? You didn't forget about me? I would never forget about you. I'm so good. I'm actually really good. I've been sleeping in. I got an extra hour of sleep. Got a good workout. Which I didn't even, we didn't even talk about this. I started taking another day off a week, and it's working wonders. I downed it from five days a week to four days a week. From the gym. Yeah. My body's feeling incredible. Oh, awesome. We love that. I know. How are you? I'm great. Had a short week this week. It's a long weekend, holiday weekend. So I'm feeling pretty rested but also stressed at the same time. But we're getting after it. That's all we do. |
| 0:56.3 | All right, let's pull up this video. Let's pull up this special video. Special video. We've been watching today. We've seen this before. What video are we watching today? We've seen this before. You guys have probably seen it before. to burn off a medium McDonald's French fry, I think it is. |
| 1:12.1 | He's going to tell us exactly how to do it. |
| 1:14.1 | Like, foolproof. probably seen it before. How to burn off a medium McDonald's French fry, I think it is. |
| 1:12.1 | He's going to tell us exactly how to do it, like full proof way, and we're going to review it. |
| 1:17.1 | Perfect. All right, I'm going to bring it up. All right, I just, this is our, I love this. |
| 1:22.2 | You know how long you'd have to exercise to burn off one medium fry from McDonald's? Well, |
| 1:26.3 | moderate pace walking will take you one |
| 1:27.8 | hour, 19 minutes. An intense workout, 49 minutes. Be sure to comment down below what food you want |
| 1:33.0 | to do next. Short sweet to the point, how to develop an eating disorder 101. Yeah, I'd say so. |
| 1:41.3 | I think so. That was ridiculous. But that's just simply not how your metabolism works. |
| 1:46.2 | So that's what we're going to talk about today. |
| 1:47.4 | That's just simply not how your metabolism works. |
| 1:50.9 | There's the term that you brought up in the beginning, right? |
| 1:53.6 | There's this thing called your TDE or your total daily energy expenditure. |
| 1:57.7 | It's where you burn calories in a day. |
| 2:00.2 | And only about 5 to 15% of the calories |
| 2:03.0 | you're burning come through exercise, meaning almost all of it is coming from other places like |
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