The 10 things you MUST know if you want to lose weight (and keep it off for life)
Lean With Plants
Chelsea Mae Cullen
4.9 • 952 Ratings
🗓️ 6 February 2026
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Ever been in a group of women talking about all the diet’s they’ve done?
Ever wondered everything and nothing seems to work and why it’s so hard to burn fat?Ever felt confused by all the different info out there and don’t know what to believe?
In this episode we’ll break down the 10 things you MUST know to understand weight loss, and how to use it to start burning fat and keep it off.
Think of this as weight loss 101 for dummies… but not just knowledge, instead practical advice you can apply today.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Lean of Plants podcast. My name is Chelsea. And if you haven't been here before, |
| 0:04.0 | I lost 40 pounds on a plant-based diet. And it wasn't when I went vegan. It was actually a long |
| 0:09.9 | time afterwards after struggling with my diet for 10 plus years yo-yoing, constantly restricting |
| 0:16.7 | and binging, not understanding what was wrong with my body, thinking that my metabolism was broken, |
| 0:22.2 | and now six years after losing 40 pounds, I've been able to maintain the best shape of my life, |
| 0:28.9 | build some muscle, and even build a YouTube channel, Instagram account, podcast, and I play |
| 0:35.7 | Foursquare every day. So those are my accolades. We're going to talk |
| 0:39.3 | about the 10 things that you're going to need to know. Every single person is going to need to |
| 0:45.1 | know this if they are going to successfully lose weight this year and keep it off. Think of this like |
| 0:52.5 | the 10 commandments of weight loss. |
| 0:55.2 | And we're going to start with the most important, |
| 0:57.3 | which is a calorie deficit is the only way to lose weight. |
| 1:01.1 | Before we even talk about how to lose weight, |
| 1:03.1 | it's vital to understand why you lose or gain weight. |
| 1:06.9 | And I can't believe that this is somewhat even controversial because you will see people |
| 1:13.2 | on Instagram or on YouTube talking about other ways that you can lose or saying that calories |
| 1:20.0 | don't matter. And it's so wrong, yet so many people believe it. And I was one of these people. |
| 1:26.5 | I genuinely thought that calories didn't |
| 1:29.2 | matter at one point when I was trying to lose weight. There was another point when I was counting |
| 1:33.1 | them. I thought that if you ate really healthy food or if you ate fully raw, then calories |
| 1:38.9 | essentially didn't matter because there was people at the time who were promoting that as a concept. |
| 1:44.5 | Your body needs energy to function and that energy comes from the food that you eat, |
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