Ep. 398 - Q&A: Stop Fearing a Deficit, HCG Fad Diet, NEAT, & more....
Choose Hard with Cody McBroom
Cody McBroom
4.9 • 825 Ratings
🗓️ 13 March 2020
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Timestamps:
7:35 - My question to you is about what I need to do based on my progress. I reached maintenance with a coach about 6 months ago and have remained there since. I have noticed a trend that I have been slowly starting to gain weight (scale number) and also have physique changes (less toned/ losing definition). My workout routine has changed since finding maintenance, by doing more lifting and less cardio. With being a girl I get nervous when the number of the scale goes up but I don't want to get in the negative head space and panic when it could be normal or good for me. Have gained 2 lbs in about a month and a half without trying if that makes sense. Only macro change in the time frame has been increased protein (130 to 145g) about 2 weeks ago. I’m lean for my height (128 lbs 5' 10), biofeedback is good, hormones are good.
12:20 - Hey Cody, I have a question for your podcast and would love your expertise. I have a new client with a goal to lose fat. She is 175 lbs looking to get down to 165. She trains 45 minutes of cardio and 30 min of weight training 3x per week...in the past she’s consumed 1500-1600 calories in an attempt to lose the weight. In my calculations this intake isn’t really enough even with the goal of fat loss. I have suggested she consume 1800 daily with a 35/25/40 split P/C/F (as suggested by PN for an endomorphic body type). She is really nervous about the calorie increase...am I wrong to start her here? I figured it best to start at a base and remove as needed during the process. If I’m wrong I would love to know and my suggestion is right I would love to be able to better explain to her how more calories will help her lose weight. I have explained she likely caused a bit of a metabolic adaptation from under consuming in the past. Sorry to be long winded, I appreciate your advice.
23:35 - Hi Cody I have a question if you don’t mind. Do you have any info on what HCG diets do to metabolism? Do you think it affects it negatively? Especially in someone with long hx of yo-yo dieting, chronic intermittent or extended fasting?
33:42 - If our circadian rhythm influences the metabolism/processing/utilization of the food we eat, energy production, and, subsequently impacts body composition, how does traveling and time zones affect this?
38:00 - Have you heard anything about eating according to your central nervous system?
41:30 - Hey Cody! Love your podcast so so much! I decided to embark on phase of building up my metabolism before my next cut. My plan is to focus on slowly increasing calories while building muscle in a 6 day split. My question for you is regarding NEAT. I currently average 9,000 steps per day. Should I am to keep that steady during my metabolic building phase or should I try to slowly increase NEAT in addition to adding calories gradually over this 12 week building phase? Thank you so much for your help!
45:00 - Everyone who exercises says it gives you so much energy, for me it doesn’t. I feel so empty & drained and I can barely stay awake, I work from home so it’s not a disaster if I have to take a nap, but I have no energy, my NEAT is waaaaaaay down, which bothers me a lot. I eat at maintenance, my weight has been stable with the macro’s I have for a while now. I eat 90% volumino
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Boom Boom Performance Podcast, your resource for science-based training and nutrition, |
| 0:07.2 | data-driven coaching, and education-focused content. Before we get into this podcast, I just want to say |
| 0:12.9 | thank you for taking the time to listen and learn with me so that you can apply what you are |
| 0:17.9 | about to learn, take my strategies, use these tools, and finally |
| 0:21.6 | have some serious methods to see sustainable success with your physique, your mind, and your life. |
| 0:28.2 | This podcast was built on the foundation of applied education, and I'm excited for you to be here |
| 0:34.1 | so you can have that experience with me. Now without any further ado, |
| 0:38.4 | let's get on to the show. Today we have a Q&A jam-packed with training and nutrition |
| 0:46.3 | content. We're going to talk a little bit about how to reverse diet, what to look for during |
| 0:50.4 | maintenance, how your knee is affected by that. We're even going to talk about the world's worst diet that I ever did. I'm talking literally starving myself and dropping these |
| 0:58.1 | little placebo drops under my tongue every day when I worked at Rite Aid. We're going to dive into a lot |
| 1:03.0 | of cool stuff today. So I think you're going to really enjoy the talk about fat diets, how to do it |
| 1:06.0 | properly. And just some random ranting that I went on about maintenance, calories, and metabolism. |
| 1:12.5 | So I think you're going to get a lot of value out of that. |
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