Hello and welcome to this episode of the ESG Fitness podcast.

I've got a little bit of the list for today because I changed my aligners.

Anyway, this is a Q&A episode.

So I'm about to get up the questions.

Probably should have done this before.

In fact, I shall pause.

Okay, here we are.

First question.

Even though I see it as failure when I go significantly higher than my calories,

I went up to 2,800 one time when my range, is meant to be 2000 to 2,200. Could it actually be a good thing to

quote unquote shock my body every now and again as long as I'm within my range most of the

time? I've perhaps had three days where I've gone way over calories over the past three weeks.

I know it's not that bad, but I've got straight back to it, back on it,

but I'm always wondering if this could be a good thing.

Is it sort of similar to being at maintenance every so often to help ensure steady fat loss?

Okay.

Is it a good thing?

Not in the sense it's going to shock your body.

Like I think there used to be this narrative that you could kind of shock your metabolism into

tricking it, to think it's eating more calories, then it all ramp up again and you'll lose fat quicker.

That doesn't happen.

And realistically, if you do this kind of eating more calories every now and again,

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