Hello and welcome to Lean with Plants.

My name is Chelsea Kellan and I'm currently sitting in this random like little kind of driveway type area. I drove out of town and I was like, okay, I'm going

to try and record this podcast episode in my car because where I live is incredibly noisy.

I live right by a roundabout and there's just trucks going past constantly. So I'm giving this a

co and I, yeah, I'm just hoping that no one drives past and be like, it comes out like,

what are you doing? Because it kind of looks like I'm doing surveillance. Like I've got my

laptop set up. There's like the podcasting software is open. So it just looks really techy and I've

got this microphone on. So I'm really hoping someone doesn't go past. All right. So today we're

going to be looking at why your metabolism isn't broken and just understanding the process of your metabolism isn't broken, broken, and just understanding the process of your metabolism

slowing down as you lose weight. And I'm honestly nervous because I want to do this topic

justice, and I want to give you guys some real solid scientific clarity to understand this and tackle

this going forward.

But I realize that I'm coming against so many years and so much, like very strong, very

convincing, like, arguments to the contrary.

And I mean, I remember when I was struggling to lose weight

and I was checking out all these vegan influences

and all these people that I wanted to look like online

and I would just watch, I would watch all the YouTube videos.

And there was a lot of them there that were talking about metabolic damage and that you,

this concept that when you don't eat enough calories, your body is going to start holding on

to fat or if you have come from a past of fad diets

or restriction once you start eating enough calories, you're going to gain weight initially.

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