5 Real Situations That Stall Your Fat Loss Every Week

About this episode

This episode discusses five common situations that can hinder fat loss efforts during a calorie deficit and offers strategies to overcome them.

Learn about 5 specific moments that happen during an ordinary week, when you're hungry or rushed or looking at a menu and you just have to decide something right now, that can cause you to slip up during fat loss (when in a calorie deficit). These small, recurring moments of real-life decision-making drive a disproportionate amount of your actual fat loss results, yet most people never identify them as the real bottleneck. This episode covers each scenario, a helpful too for each one, and a p...

People in this episode

Host: Philip Pape

Topics covered

• fat loss
• calorie deficit
• decision-making
• nutrition
• weight loss

Keywords

• fat loss
• calorie deficit
• nutrition
• decision-making
• weight loss

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