Welcome to Everyday Wellness Podcast. I'm your host, nurse practitioner, Cynthia Thurlow.

This podcast is designed to educate, empower, and inspire you to achieve your health and wellness goals.

My goal and intent is to provide you with the best content and conversations from leaders in the health and wellness industry each week and impact over a million lives.

This is the start of a new Thursday series called The Midlife Minute that is really designed to address listeners questions in a little bit longer

length of time and or deeper dive into topics. Ideally, we're going to keep these podcasts under

20 minutes. Occasionally, we may go over to 30, but I'm trying to reinforce some key concepts and ensure that I'm addressing listeners' questions

in a way that's really helpful.

So the questions that I will be addressing topics are going to be items that I'm being asked

over and over and over again.

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According to Dr. Sarah Gottfried Zahl, 99% of weight loss resistance is hormonal.

And so we've kind of been conditioned to believe that it's all about calories and calories out.

And I'm going to make the argument today why I think that is largely ineffective.

And as the esteemed JJ Virgin says, your body is a chemistry lab, not a bank account, and calories in,

calories out, or SICO is woefully outdated. So what actually is a calorie? It was coined in the

1800s and was used by scientists who measure energy in all of its different forms by the same metric as heat,

light, motion, or the potential energy of chemical bonds. And these chemical bonds are found in most

foods and can release their potential energy as heat and light when burned. And then in 1887, Wilbur atwater,

father of modern nutritional science,

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