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. I have tried pretty much every single diet under the sun. You know what? That's not actually true

because every single day I talk to women who have done 20 times more diets than me. And so many of

them actually started going to Weight Watchers when they were like pre-teens with their mums.

And that's when their dieting journey started. So if you think about every single thing

that you have done, weight watches, noom, calorie counting, intermittent fasting, you can probably

list off five, maybe 10, maybe even more diets right now. Do you want to know the craziest thing

about that though? Every single diet works off the same principle. Every diet works when it does

if and only if it gets you into what's called a calorie deficit. There's no other magical way of

losing. We just have to eat less calories than we consume. And I'm going to explain this

throughout the course of this episode. But what I really want to talk about today is how do you consistently get into a calorie deficit? How do you consistently get into

that weight loss zone? How do you bypass all the need for these thousands of different diets and cut

straight to the meat of the matter, which is lowering your calories systemically and then be able to

actually maintain that without having to count a single one.

This is the most important factor. You should not and you do not need to count calories,

restrict your eating window, only consume high fat food or only consume super low carb food in order to lose weight. There is not a rulebook for weight loss

in as much as there is principles that are consistent or thermodynamic laws, laws of thermodynamics

...