Hello and welcome to this episode of the ESG Fitness podcast. I got such good feedback last week

about the podcast that was more directed towards smaller women or shorter women or people just

struggling to lose weight on lower calories because that's the amount of calories that they

genuinely need to consume in order to lose fat. So I'm going

to elaborate on that a little bit here. And I also got some really interesting further questions from

people. So hopefully this covers quite a few of them. But just to not bore people who aren't small

women, this will also be useful if you're not small and especially

useful for other coaches of which I know there are a lot that listen to this podcast. Just to

understand different people's energy needs and why different people have different energy

needs and what might impact them. Plus a factor that would only

be relevant in certain situations, but is something that not a lot of coaches talk about and may

surprise you a little bit. So one question I got, which clearly means I didn't really explain it

quite well enough, is something along lines of, I still don't quite understand why it's harder for short women,

if you say BMR is primarily influenced by mass and not height.

This is such a good question and I always think that you can tell how

intelligent and inquisitive someone is by the standard of question that they ask.

So this is a very good question, thank you.

So I'm going to explain it in a slightly different way

because hopefully by using an example,

you'll see what I mean and why it is harder.

So let's say you weigh 68 kilograms or 150 pounds,

and you are 5 foot 6 or above. If that's you then you're going to be in a healthy

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