Hello guys and welcome to the Lean of Plants podcast. I'm Chelsea, former overweight, healthy vegan,

confused about why I couldn't look like my favorite plant-based influences, even though I was

chugging back green smoothies every day. After a decade of unsustainable vegan diets,

I learned the truth about weight loss, lost 40 pounds,

and now I'm in the best shape of my life even after two kids.

Girl, if you've been struggling to drop the pounds as a vegan,

stuck in a cycle of self-savitage, sick of yo-yo

dieting and going hungry, never being able to get and stay lean, then this is the podcast

for you. Each week I share the no BS truth about why vegan women are overweight, the action

steps to get you shedding fat and the

mindset you'll need to get slim for life. I'm excited to hang out with you again,

whether you are sitting in the car right now or you're playing with your kids or you're walking,

dog or a cat or whatever else. I hope that your day is going fantastically. We are going to

carry on this conversation about can anyone get lean and examining set point theory in particular,

which is the theory that your body is really fighting weight loss and weight gain and that it wants to

regulate a certain weight. So if you have not listened to part one of the series, then go and

listen to that right now. It's really, really important that you understand that before you

come into this episode. And in that episode,

just to give you a bit of a recap, we talked about set point, your body defending that, like I said,

and then also settling point, which is a theory that it's not so much about your body defending

a certain way and that that's a reason that we maintain or tend to maintain our weight and

that it's purely based on environmental factors. So if you're in a stable environment,

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