Ep 376 - Weight Loss Resistance
Iron Culture presented by MASS
The MASS Crew
4.8 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 20 May 2026
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Join us for a rare Iron Culture episode with co-hosts who are not only on the same continent, but actually in the same ROOM. Helms and Trexler are in Australia for the Sports Nutrition Association Annual Conference, so they got together to record an episode about Trex's presentation topic: resistance to weight loss. Specifically, why being a true "outlier" who is resistant to weight loss efforts is quite rare, particularly when looking at the energy expenditure side of the equation.
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Chapters
00:00 Introduction
07:09 Tracking errors and energy absorption
22:21 Myths and realities related to medical conditions
50:48 Metabolic adaptation & exercise energy compensation
56:36 Weight loss friction as a spectrum
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | What's up, everybody? Welcome back to Iron Culture. It is me. Eric Trexler joined as always by |
| 0:09.5 | the Dr. Eric Helms in the flesh. We traveled to the other side of the world. You went like, |
| 0:16.5 | I don't know, 20 feet. I don't know how far Australia or New Zealand is from Australia. |
| 0:21.2 | But we are here in the down under, as they call it. Everyone calls a bet here I've noticed. |
| 0:28.4 | He'll be upside down. Yeah. And we are here for the SNA annual conference. We flip flop. Every other year we do it in America. |
| 0:37.2 | Next year we do in Australia. So last year we were in Texas. Yep. And flip-flop. Every other year we do it in America. Next year we do in Australia. |
| 0:38.3 | So last year we were in Texas. Yep. And now we are here in Gold Coast of Australia. Helms, how |
| 0:45.6 | we doing? Good. It's nice that we get to trade who is jet lagged each year. Yes. Yeah. So we'll |
| 0:53.0 | see like, man, it seems like tracks and helms are never |
| 0:56.2 | both on at the same time. Yeah. Yeah. It's interesting. I am on day one of, you know, I got in |
| 1:05.0 | yesterday, was able to stay awake until a reasonable bedtime and then woke up naturally like three minutes |
| 1:12.0 | before my alarm. So I think I've done everything as well as I possibly can. I don't feel tired, |
| 1:18.8 | but I do feel disoriented and I really did not appreciate. I don't know how you got used to this, |
| 1:26.2 | but I feel like I woke up today and like several |
| 1:29.1 | people vaguely asked if I could like hop on a call tomorrow. And I was like, I have no idea what |
| 1:34.8 | tomorrow means because I got this message at one in the morning and I don't know what day you're |
| 1:40.6 | living in. I'm living in a totally different day. So I've had like three people |
| 1:45.0 | try to schedule things with me today. And I've just given up. I've just said, whatever, put it on a calendar and we'll make it work. So I don't know how you got used to that, but I hate it very much. Oh, I'm going to give you the hack. Yes. I'll give you the hack. Google Calendar. Yes. first step is you just operate in the time zone of the person you want to work with. And what you do is when you make the calendar invite, you select the time zone and the location of them and you schedule it. But the first step is you have to go to your settings and make sure that your calendar is set for wherever |
| 2:17.7 | you physically are. Okay. So for example, if someone from Norway, shout out Stan Larson, says, |
| 2:24.7 | hey, Eric, I want to jump online and talk to you about my awesome study on lean back leg extensions. |
| 2:31.6 | And I would say, of course, Stan, I would love to talk to you about that. |
| 2:34.8 | And I go, how does, and here you do a little bit of homework, like, what time is it currently in Norway? Right. And you go, okay, well, that's crazy. So, for example, New Zealand, Norway, we're looking at one of our evenings and one of our mornings because we're on the opposite of the plants. I was like, hey, how does, can you make a 9 p.m. meeting your time work? And then I say the date that they want. And I, to check that, I just, 9 p.m. on the 7th. And then it'll pop up for on, once you schedule it, it'll show up where it is for you. okay. Yeah. I did not do any of that. |
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