So, guys, Derek, more plates more days.com. Today we're going to be talking about a common mistake I made cutting back in the day and I see made all the time now that is going to hinder your progress, make your cut a lot harder. So, you know, there's this whole debate about calories in, calories out, the laws of thermodynamics, blah, blah, blah, you know, I'm not going to argue calories

in versus calories out isn't a thing. Like that obviously does matter at the end of the day.

That's ultimately what is going to dictate if you lose or gain weight. However, something that

often goes overlooked without getting into the realms of, you know, cortisol and fucking

hypo and hyperthyroidism and

stuff like that autoimmune disease a lot of things that play into it the difference between

cutting calories and increasing your cardio and adding in something that increases your energy

expenditure like a fat burner or something how do you know which to do and when and does it all actually equate to the same

thing at the end of the day? No, it doesn't. So this is the big mistake that I made back in the

day and I see people do all the time now is they will aggressively cut their calories but do no

cardio or they'll just aggressively use fat burners and do no cardio so while the obvious you know the

it doesn't take a rocket scientist to tell you why you know slamming a fucking shit ton of stimulants

and using clumbuteral and making yourself hyperthyroid and all these things to increase your

energy expenditure is not, you know,

going to be a healthy, not a sustainable practice.

You know, we'll just kind of put that off the table right now, the fat burner thing.

The discussion is more so how do you know when you cut calories versus increase your cardio?

So typically when somebody starts a diet, what they'll do is

go into a deficit. They might be 300 calories, it might be 500 calories. Some people are really

aggressive and they'll make the mistake of going, you know, 500 plus calorie deficit off the bat,

which leads to metabolic adaptation much quicker than it would otherwise.

And at the end of the day, you know, it is, do you want to increase your energy expenditure and

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