Welcome to Empowered Radio.

I am your host, Emma Montgomery, an online nutrition and fitness coach and creator of Shred with M.

Each week we'll talk all things nutrition, training, and mindset.

You'll be able to take my tips and strategies and apply what you learn to see results

with both your body and your mind.

So without further ado, let's jump into the episode.

What's up, guys?

Welcome back to another episode of Empowered Radio.

Today we're going to talk about your metabolism.

We are going to talk about what goes into making up your metabolism and what accounts for the calories that you burn throughout the day.

We're going to touch on things that you should focus on and things that you can control

in terms of your calories.

And we're going to touch on what you should not focus on and what you cannot control

with your calories.

And I am going to answer and discuss why you should not

eat back the calories that you burn during exercise. I get that question a lot. So we're going to

talk about all of that today. I am going to try to keep this short and sweet and also high level and not

like two in the weeds and get too sciencey, just so that it's very easy to digest and understand.

So if we just jump right in, we're going to talk about your metabolism first

and total daily energy expenditure. So that is what accounts for all the calories that are burned

throughout the day. So we're going to talk about first what goes into basically the four

pieces that go into your total daily energy expenditure.

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