Hello, welcome to the Lean of Plants podcast. My name is Chelsea and if you are struggling to lose weight on a plant-based diet, then this podcast is for you. While there are thousands of books, podcasts and resources about the benefits of a plant-based diet, the reality is that being vegan does not

guarantee losing weight. If you are feeling frustrated and confused about where to start,

or you know exactly what you should be doing, but you just can't seem to rustle up enough

willpower to do it, then keep listening. In this podcast, you'll learn the truth about plant-based weight loss, but just as importantly,

how to use proven methods of behavioural change to turn what you know into lifelong habits

that lead to getting and staying lean.

Can't wait to get started.

Let's do this.

Thank you so much for being here.

And if you are a regular listener and you put a review on the podcast last week,

I just want to say a special thank you because that was incredibly incredible,

incredibly cool to see just all the reviews come through over the past week.

I put out on the podcast last week.

Hey, if you like to do a podcast, please go and give it a review and we did have a lot of people do that.

So if that's you, thank you. I appreciate you. And let's get into this episode.

So I'm really excited to talk about this. We're not going to be talking about calories again,

and I've talked about this in previous episodes. Some of them I think are really good episodes,

if I do say so myself. So I'm going to link in the description where you can learn more about

calories and calorie burn and how many calories you need to eat to lose weight. What we're going to

talk about specifically

in this episode is really to understand where you sit in terms of how many calories you actually

burn per day. We're going to look at how you can calculate what your BMR is and get a bit of an

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