Smarter Science of Slim vs. Calorie Myths with Jonathan Bailor » podcasts

Why exercising more fails for all of the same reasons eating less fails...How exercising more can actually harm health...Why staying active is great for your and is not the same as traditional exercise...How Pennington Biomedical Research Center researcher T.S. Church found, “After 18 months of exercise training and achieving 2,000 kcal [calories] per week of exercise, college-aged women had no weight loss.”...Which food corporations serve on the executive board of the American Council on Fitness and Nutrition...How the statement "inactivity causes obesity" is backwards...How Americans exercise more than anyone else in the world and are the sixth heaviest population in the world...Why doing too little of something that we did even less of before the problem existed can't be the cause of the problem.

This week Carrie and I introduce the four fallacies of fat gain...1. Eating less does not cause long-term fat loss...2. Exercising more does not cause long-term fat loss...3. Exercising less does not cause long-term fat gain...4. Eating more does not cause long-term fat gain...And dig deeply into the first one with all sorts of simple studies, and then go a bit bonkers at the end :)...Starvation does not make us thin. It makes us stocky, sick, and sad. It’s bad for health and it’s bad for fat loss...Your body just doesn’t work that way.

How To Lower Your Set-Point Weight and Make Your Body Fight to Keep You Slim.....The Philosophy of Long-Term Body Fat Loss.....Exercise Less--But Smarter--To Boost Wellness Long-Term

Your metabolism automatically regulates your weight around a “set-point.” That set-point is why it seems like no matter how much you starve yourself or exercise, you generally end up weighing the same--long-term. It is why you can get the flu, drop 15lbs., but then gain exactly 15lbs. back without eating any more than normal or exercising any less than normal. It is also why obese people do not explode. I know the "explode" bit may sound silly, but think about it for a moment. Why don’t obese people continue to pack on pounds indefinitely? If the amount of food they ate and exercise they got raised them to 450lbs., why doesn’t it raise them to 4,500 pounds? Well, they somehow automatically stop gaining weight. How does that work under the the mythical Calories In – Calories Out metabolism works like math world? It doesn’t. In this episode we'll cover how weight gain works in the real world and what we can do about it.

Eating less and exercising more has been proven wrong but is still how we're all told to lose weight. We are told that our metabolism sits back while we consciously regulate our weight. That is not how our body works. Telling us that we need to manually regulate calories in vs. calories out is about a resonable as telling us that we need to manually regulate breaths in vs. breaths out. If we take care of body, it will automatically take care life-sustaining functions. Think about it like this: We don't have to worry about beating our hearts thanks to our circulatory system. Similarly, we don't have to worry about balancing our calories thanks to our fat metabolism system...or so we'll discuss in this episode. The key to long-term wellness is keeping all of our body's systems working properly by eating a lot of high-quality SANE food, and doing a little , but higher-quality, exercise. In the case of our fat metabolism system, this lowers our set-point weight and keeps us slim "automatically" like naturally slim people. The key question for us is: "How do we get our body to behave more like the body of a naturally thin person?"

As our understanding of human biology becomes ever more advanced, researchers have made remarkable leaps forward in many fields. But for one question that many of us would like answered—what should we do to stay health and fit long term—we find all sorts of confusing claims. One guru advises an all-fat diet. Another wants you to eat only veggies. Since we know so much about how the body works, can’t science tell us the answer? As it turns out, science already has. And that’s what we’ll introduce in this podcast.