The Trouble With Calories
Maintenance Phase
Aubrey Gordon & Michael Hobbes
4.8 • 16.3K Ratings
🗓️ 24 May 2022
⏱️ 53 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Weight loss is as simple as “calories in, calories out,” right? Or — gasp — could the reply guys be wrong!? This week, we dig in on the surprisingly complex science behind a seemingly simple calculation.
Support us:
Links!
- History of the Calorie in Nutrition
- Caloric Equivalents of Gained or Lost Weight
- The Foreign Policy of the Calorie
- Why the most popular rule of weight loss is completely wrong
- Time to Correctly Predict the Amount of Weight Loss With Dieting
- Mysteries of Weight Loss
- The energy balance model of obesity: beyond calories in, calories out
- “Calories in, calories out” and macronutrient intake
- Olympians owe gold standard to a 19th-century chemist
- Calories on food packets are wrong—it’s time to change that
- Why Does the FDA Recommend 2,000 Calories Per Day?
- Who Actually Needs a 2,000 Calorie a Day Diet?
- The Nutrition Facts Label: Its History and Updates
Thanks to Doctor Dreamchip for our lovely theme song!
Support the showTranscript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | I'm gonna say something else. |
| 0:02.0 | Wait, what is it a spoiler of? |
| 0:04.0 | Okay, I was gonna say, welcome to maintenance phase, the podcast that raises a cubic centimeter |
| 0:28.0 | of water by one degree. |
| 0:30.0 | Oh, buddy, that's like the first five minutes. |
| 0:32.0 | Welcome to maintenance phase, the podcast that recommends 2,000 of it per day. |
| 0:40.0 | No, that's so fast. |
| 0:42.0 | That was the worst. |
| 0:44.0 | Wait, no, I love it, leave it. |
| 0:48.0 | That's by far my worst one. |
| 0:50.0 | We have not done a me episode in a while and it's finally showing up how rusty you are. |
| 0:56.0 | I've never co-hosted this show before. |
| 1:00.0 | I'm Aubrey Gordon. |
| 1:02.0 | I am Michael Hobbs. |
| 1:04.0 | And today, as you may have gathered, I don't know how you would have gathered this. |
| 1:10.0 | We're talking about calories. |
| 1:12.0 | Before we get to that, if you would like to support the show, you can do that on Patreon or you can buy T-shirts, Mugs, |
| 1:18.0 | tote bags, all manner of things at T-Public. |
| 1:20.0 | Both of those are linked for you on the show notes. |
| 1:22.0 | And today, Michael Hobbs, it is the first of a two-parter. |
| 1:28.0 | A calorie dip tick. |
| 1:30.0 | So we have gotten a bunch of emails from listeners, particularly listeners in the UK, |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Aubrey Gordon & Michael Hobbes, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Aubrey Gordon & Michael Hobbes and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.