Eat More Protein & Lose Fat WITHOUT a Calorie Deficit? | Ep 486
About this episode
The episode discusses how to lose fat while increasing protein intake without relying on a calorie deficit.
Most of us treat fat loss as a subtraction problem. Eat less, move more, lose weight. Energy balance (calories in calories out) is definitely real, so that holds at the top level when it comes to pure weight loss. The trouble is that "eat less" is often done restrictively, often leads to even LESS protein, nutrient, and fiber intake, and often done at a rapid pace, any of which cause you to lose muscle, energy, get hungrier, and all the other things that ultimately make you quit (or gain he w...
Topics covered
- fat loss
- protein intake
- calorie deficit
- nutrition
- muscle preservation
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