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New podcast today!
Question :
I’ve listened to your podcasts but I can’t seem to get a few questions answered to items you discuss. I enjoy your frank and honest approach, but I can’t help but feel frustrated by two pieces of information that seem to be missing:
1 – If Fat-loss is supposed to be a short and temporary (albeit insane) time, what happens afterwards? You say that we should not be living our lives in “deficit” mode, but if we lost fat in a short time and then went back to eating more, would we not just gain the weight back? I am really having a hard time wrapping my head around this one. Unless I maintain the diet and training that lost the fat, it stands to reason that I’ll gain it back! When you talk about fat loss being a temporary stage, is this fat loss supposed to be for life or just temporary…because I am looking for LIFELONG fat loss!
2 – Calorie counting. Yes, it obviously works for many people, but what psychological tools can use to get around the madness that ensues? The period of my life where I counted calories was one of the most psychologically devastating – it was also the point where my progress (losing weight) really slowed down. How can you make calorie-counting work for you without hating yourself at every step of the way?
I also discuss a back and forth email I had with a girl who is a recovering anorexic and how her that past mixed with coming off of anti-depressants may lead to a harder time now.
Really different stuff here, check it out below.
Anorexia Ghost and short term hotness?
Will the podcasts be available through Itunes again?
Yes, in fact it should be by the end of the night.
Wow Leigh, am I glad to see this and can’t wait to listen to it! I have wondered these same questions so many times – mainly, about the issue that when I lower calories, my movement slows so the activity quiz calculator no longer applies (ie. I can’t do the longer cardio, less movement in general due to light-headedness, dizzy)so I feel like I am spinning my wheels and end up back where I was – breaking even calorie wise. Plus, I have wondered about maintaining the loss because as soon as the calories go up when I am at a lower weight (lower RMR) then the weight goes up too. I guess I just can’t wrap my head around it either! Calorie counting is a double edged sword for OCD’ers like me, especially ones who have history of ED!
Thanks for making your podcasts available through iTunes; I really look forward to listening to this newest podcast. Hopefully, I will be able to glean some “aPeeleing” insights to use as a mental safety net on my angst-ridden knuckle biting climb up Mt. Acceptance. Leigh, thank you for the work that you do… it is vastly appreciated.
I am really glad you are doing the podcast again.
Leigh I can’t WAIT to listen to your answer to these questions! I have wondered the VERY same things myself! Thank you!!!
Just wanted to thank you for answering my questions on your podcast. It was good to know that as crazy as I am, there are some other crazies like me out there too. Sometimes I just get so obsessed with this whole fat-loss journey that I fall into the pit of analysis paralysis…not exactly the best way to raise N.E.A.T, know what I mean?
After losing 75 lbs+, I am still amazed and impressed by how much I have to learn. All I can say is a big THANKS again to you for putting things into context and reminding me that fat loss does not have to be rocket science (even if it seems that way sometimes). The whole “owed” concept you’ve discussed has gone a long way in helping me to keep things in perspective – it’s a useful reminder to keep moving even after we accomplish great results! I’m already looking forward to your next podcast…don’t wait too long!
I really loved your point about being aware about what got you to the overweight point in the first place and the fact that, if you’ve been there once, it’s in you to get back there again so you have to be vigilant or at least aware and address the thing that got you there in the first place. (BOY! That’s a LONG sentence!) That’s something that I’ve been thinking about a lot since I first “met” you, and it’s something that I hope that I’m working on so that when I do hit my goals I don’t let myself fall back into old (and bad) habits again.
Still waiting for I-tunes?? I cannot find this on there.