Welcome to the Nutrition Science Podcast, where we help you cut through the noise and make informed science-based decisions about nutrition and your health.

How's it going, everyone?

Welcome back to another episode of the Nutrition Science Podcast.

I'm your host, Dr. Adrian Chavez, and today we are going to be discussing everything you need to know in order to

lose weight this year. Now, I am not necessarily suggesting that you need to lose weight,

but I know that about 50% of the U.S. population is going to attempt to lose weight in any given year,

and most of them are not going to be successful.

And in this episode, I'm just going to outline exactly what it is that you need to do in order

to achieve that goal. And we're going to discuss that from both the scientific perspective,

what weight loss actually requires from a scientific physiological standpoint, and then also

the habits that are going to allow you to lose

weight and keep it off and lose the right type of weight and keep it off for the long term.

So let's go ahead and jump into it. And let's start by discussing whether or not weight loss

is actually a good goal for you. So a couple of questions to ask yourself.

Are you carrying excess body weight in your abdominal area? Is this negatively affecting your

health in some way? Is this causing you to have prediabetes, high cholesterol, high blood pressure?

Is this impacting your joints? Is this impacting the way you feel?

If all of these things are yes, then you could probably stand to drop some excess body fat.

And a large percentage of United States adults are in this category of individuals whose health would improve from losing some excess

body fat. Now, there's a lot of people who are going to tune into this episode and who are

consistently attempting to lose weight who aren't carrying that much excess body fat, whose health

isn't being negatively affected by excess body fat and who have been just dieting their

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