Hello and welcome to the second episode of Get Lean with Plants and I don't know if you just heard that but that was a cow mooing in the background because I'm currently recording this at my parents-in-law so yeah, yeah, if you hear that, that's the reason.

What we're going to look at today is how to get into a calorie deficit without counting

calories and how to lose weight without counting calories.

So in the first episode, what I talked about was the necessity for getting into a

calorie deficit for weight loss. And for me, that was something that was really mysterious

for many, many years. I thought I had to do low-carb vegan diets or a raw challenge or

drink salary juice to lose weight.

But it was only when I understood that I had to be in a calorie deficit that I started

to learn the most effective way to do that.

And that's what this whole podcast is about.

It's about sharing the practical and the scientific reasons behind long-term

sustainable plant-based weight loss. So we're going to really quickly go over what a calorie

deficit is. Basically, your body needs a finite amount of energy to function and the food that you eat is where you get most of that energy

from so if you are consuming more calories and calories how we talk about energy then your body is

going to store some of that excess that it doesn't need at that time and it's going to store it away

for a rainy day the most effective way for it to

store it is as fat. So if you want to start burning fat for fuel, you have to be consuming less

calories than your body needs to perform its functions. And then it's going to be forced to dip into

those fat stores because it needs that

energy to function right it has to come from somewhere so it's dipping into those rainy day

fat stores to utilize it that's the way that anyone loses weight that's the way that or burns fat

i should say because you can lose weight by cutting off your arm.

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