How's it going everyone? Welcome to a brand new episode of the Daily Unicorn in which I speak to a complete stranger by the name of Rachel very sweet young woman going through a fat loss plateau doing everything properly counting your calories exercising four to five times a week but not sure why she can't break through this plateau.

So in this episode her and I talk about what's going on and we figured out very quickly not only a common issue for most people but a very specific reason that most people over to look as to why they can't break through their fat loss plateau even if they're doing everything perfectly.

So give it a listen. Let me know if you have any questions. Have a wonderful day. Talk to you soon.

Hello Rachel how are you? We got there in the end.

Thank you for taking the time to hop on the call with me. And second so basically right now we are recording and just for everybody listening Rachel and I have never spoken before we actually Rachel message me on Instagram.

It was earlier and it was at 4 a.m. I time so you're in England right Rachel. I'm in Wales. Yes. Same time as England. Got it. Awesome. So you're in Wales and and actually I forget your question but I read it and I was like, oh this is a great one to answer for everybody because it's such a it's a good question and so many people struggle with the same thing.

So I wanted to talk about it publicly and so Rachel could you just do me a favor and and reiterate your question for me.

Okay so I've been eating in a calorific deficit for quite some time now. I've hit a plateau. I've been on this plateau for I'd say about three months.

I've been eating wholesome food, drinking plenty of water, I'm gymming four or five times a week mixing up my workouts, I'm lifting heavy, I'm doing a lot of cardio and I just can't seem to break through it.

Okay got it. So Rachel would you mind if I ask you how tall are you and how much do you weigh? I'm about five foot one and I weigh about nine stone. I think that's like 58 kilograms but don't hold me to that. I'm not sure on kilograms.

Alright so once again so I'm gonna have to go to Google and translate nine stone to pounds so I actually know how much we're talking so nine stone is 126 pounds and how how tall did you say you are?

About five foot one. Five foot one got it so 120 pounds five foot.

But you are already a pretty lean athletic person right so you train you work out hard your nutrition is very good.

Yes but it's like my my arms and my legs everything but like most women I hold all of the fat is in the stomach and that just does not seem to budge.

Got it okay so so this is really really really good now how many calories are you eating?

Between 1,200 and 1,300 and then obviously when I exercise I work out how many of those calories I've burned and then I obviously replace those with eating.

Well I'll tell you what Rachel I think we arrived at a conclusion much faster than I expected to.

How many calories are you burning from exercise around 600.

There's your problem how are you how are you counting your calories burned?

I've just it's a Garmin Vivo Fed it's a wristwatch it's not exactly the best thing in the world but it's it's a rough estimate.

This is went way faster and way more easy than I expected it to but what if I were to tell you that those calorie trackers that track how many calories you burn are notoriously wrong by upwards of 50%.

Okay so so what's going on and so people often ask me.

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