Why Your Maintenance Calories Feel So Low | Ep 745

About this episode

In this episode, Jeff Hoehn discusses why maintenance calories may feel low and addresses common misconceptions about metabolism and weight management.

Welcome to the Mind Muscle Connection Podcast! A lot of people feel like the second they eat over 1500 calories, they instantly gain weight. In today’s episode, I break down why that feeling happens, why your metabolism probably isn’t broken, and why your maintenance calories may feel artificially low. I also explain the biggest mistakes people make with scale weight fluctuations, staying too lean for too long, chronic dieting, inaccurate tracking, low muscle mass, and trying to maintain high...

People in this episode

Host: Jeff Hoehn

Topics covered

• maintenance calories
• metabolism
• weight gain
• scale weight fluctuations
• chronic dieting
• nutrition

Keywords

• maintenance calories
• metabolism
• weight gain
• scale fluctuations
• chronic dieting
• nutrition tracking
• muscle mass

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