Why Your Fat Loss Isn't Showing Up on the Scale After 40

About this episode

The episode discusses why women over 40 may not see weight-loss progress on the scale despite maintaining a calorie deficit and offers insights into common factors that could be affecting their results.

Send us Fan Mail You could be tracking your food, eating in a deficit, and staying consistent, yet still not see any weight-loss progress on the scale. You've probably been there before and felt frustrated. After 40, a calorie deficit is still the right foundation for fat loss. But there are three things that can completely override it, and because they seem so normal, most women never connect them to why their progress has stopped. Maybe one, maybe all three in this episode will apply to you...

People in this episode

Host: Andrea Cutuk

Topics covered

• fat loss
• metabolism
• weight loss
• women over 40
• calorie deficit
• health

Keywords

• fat loss
• weight loss
• calorie deficit
• women over 40
• metabolism
• health
• nutrition

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