Calorie-in, calorie-out. Avoid fat to not be fat. Avoid calories to not put on weight. Stop me if you’ve heard these before. While these sound intuitively correct, unfortunately, it’s not the truth.

In this episode, your food guides Erica and Fabrice expose the lie that “You have to count your calories.” Erica opens up how this false premise kept her on the hamster wheel of counting calories and how breaking out of this lie was her first true step to health. Fabrice then shares the history and pseudoscience behind this lie (watch out for economists telling you how to eat!).

If you have ever felt you didn’t have enough willpower to be healthy, this episode will help show you it isn’t your fault and how to work with your body to help you reach your health goals. As always, Erica and Fabrice provide real-life, actionable tips for anyone along their food journey while showing you how to get off the hamster wheel for good.

• 1:41 - The false premise that kept Erica on the hamster wheel of counting calories
• 3:28 - LIE: You need to try harder to get healthier
• 8:19 - Breaking down metabolism, setpoint, and homeostasis and why they matter
• 14:52 - You do not have a willpower issue
• 20:08 - The (scientific) reasons you don't like you during a diet
• 22:35 - The solution to the calorie hampster wheel
• 25:21 - One cool thing about real food
• 28:47 - Your body knows better than your brain
• 31:30 - Your homework assignment

Are you confused about who and what to believe when it comes to health? Erica and Fabrice were too. So they set out to understand why it is so hard to get trustworthy answers and to figure out what good health actually looks like. They want to share what they learned with you.

Erica is a workplace wellness expert known for her direct and relatable approach to health. Fabrice is a veteran of sifting through contradictory information to come up with a plan of action.

In each episode of the Lies We’ve Been Fed, they look at a common “lie” about health and nutrition, layout how it came to be believed, explain why it’s not true, and reveal a better path forward for your health. It could be the best way you spend 30 minutes today.

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• Podcast edited and mixed by 51 features. Connect at andrew {at} 51features {dot} com.