People Said I Couldn't Maintain on 3,000 Calories - This Study Explains Why

[00:00:00]Hello my friends. I wanted to go ahead and share this video I happened upon from a very popular YouTube YouTuber.

[00:00:08]His name is Jeremy and he does this whole video where he talks about four different groups of people who have different body shapes, body styles I suppose. So we've got our skinny group, our skinny fat group, bulky and and high fat group.

[00:00:26]And what he's trying to determine in this study is basically he he says people don't know what they eat. And so I thought this was an interesting video because I recently put out that video of me saying that I can eat 3,000 calories from mostly carbohydrate sources and maintain my weight. And again, I copy out it that I'm not that I'm not as lean as people think maybe that I am or maybe maybe we have the the right image in our heads. I am lean by most standards. I'm not shredded like a bodybuilder or anything like that, nor do I need to be. But we've got four different styles here and I don't actually think I I land in any of these uh spots right here. But some people I feel like land in the skinny fat to skinny groups and they don't even realize it because and you'll see from the video, they're not doing resistance training. They don't have anything under the they're not doing progressive overload or actually challenging themselves. So they're not putting on any muscle, they're not putting any density on their bones, which is another thing. So I've said before all of my life, I have been told I am heavy for what I look like. And it's a big part of why I don't like to share what my actual weight is because I don't want you to compare yourself to me. Just know that you need to try and achieve the healthy body and not worry about where that weight lands. but also in that video that I shared is people don't know how much they're eating. Obviously, none of us really knows how much of the food that we eat is being absorbed or whatever else may be happening. Maybe we're just pooping it right out for some people.

[00:02:15]But we don't know how much we're eating with a lot of accuracy.

[00:02:19]At some point in the video, you'll see some people who are athletes that really track their uh really really track what they eat.

[00:02:26]They're pretty close, but then you see a lot of other people, like this small guy on the left. When When each person was asked what they believed that they eat or burn, they're drastically off. And you also see the people who say, "I eat unlimited." And they're satisfied with the amount they eat, they might just not be eating as much as they think they are.

[00:02:49]Uh just like some people that say, "I hardly eat at all." They don't realize how often they're snacking.

[00:02:55]Or some people, when they sit, they just sit. They are not burning extra calories from fidgets or wiggles or movement of any type. And then you've got other people who can't stop moving. That's uh I mean, I've got that movement, too. I mean, I've been holding babies for so long, I've got that sway when I stand anywhere.

[00:03:13]So, you'll see from this whole experiment he does here that people don't realize what they're eating or how much they're burning with any accuracy. And I was a little surprised. I'd never heard about this test before, but the test is called the doubly labeled water.

[00:03:30]So, they have these people drink isotopes of hydrogen and oxygen. And what that means is they have uh these people eating heavier versions of these two molecules than the ones that we're used to interacting with. And what they do is they can calculate the disappearance rates of both of these, and that will tell them how much carbon dioxide each person is producing. And by taking that number, they can apparently accurately track how many calories your body burns.

[00:04:02]I guess this is a gold standard. I had never heard of it before I watched this video, and it's pretty fascinating to me. So, let's actually just get into the video. These are twin sisters here.

[00:04:14]Both in the skinny fat.

[00:04:16]>> I'm curious, since you guys are twins, genetically identical, do you have any theory as to why there's a slight discrepancy in your body fat right now?

[00:04:24]>> Yeah, I mean, it's not not really a theory. I was depressed and I gained a lot of weight. I was eating a lot of food and a lot of like takeout. Boneless wings, fried sushi, fried >> Fried sushi.

[00:04:37]>> Yeah, I was having fried sushi.

[00:04:39]>> So, at least this woman can admit what it was. And like a lot of high-carb people will tell you, a lot of people will blame sugars all the time. When in reality, they're deep frying their food and eating as much of that as they want to, you know, and in this case, suppress whatever feeling she was having through depression.

[00:04:57]>> Take [clears throat] the waffle low and point to a single event that caused her weight gain. Everyone I spoke with seemed to have their own theories as to why they have their current body type.

[00:05:05]>> I would think that I have a slow metabolism.

[00:05:07]>> Yeah, I overeat.

[00:05:09]>> That's the one. A lot of people like to blame their body. So, nobody seems to want to take responsibility for what their habits have been giving them. And I I get that to a point. Like, sometimes we just amnesia a lot of the snacks that we have, or we just we know we're not accurately tracking, and yet we just we think it away. We know we had a binge over the weekend, but we just assume it didn't happen, and we think we're eating 1,200 calories, and we just keep gaining weight, so it must be my metabolism that's broken.

[00:05:43]From what I have learned over the years, generally speaking, if you are heavier or you have more mass on your body, you're generally burning more calories than somebody who has less mass because it takes a lot more to keep you at that size. Does that make sense?

[00:06:02]>> Going to restaurants, takeout. I work in retail. That comes like three to four times a week. I'm on my feet pretty much the whole time. But how >> He's an amazing example of what non-exercise activity thermogenesis will get you. So, he has a high metabolism even though he has a smaller mass, but that's because he's moving so much.

[00:06:22]>> Many of them are actually correct. To find out, 1 month before filming, I had nine of our subjects complete a test that not only revealed their actual metabolism, but also lets us predict exactly how many calories they've actually >> So, this is the fascinating picture right here. Again, I don't think I fit into any of these camps, so I wasn't able to relate as easily um because I'm not skinny, I'm not skinny fat, I'm not um bulky or uh What is this last one?

[00:06:50]Or high fat. So, I felt like it was a little unrelatable except for some of the people who have a good base amount of muscle, I could relate to because of how many calories they can eat to maintain.

[00:07:04]>> progress after 5 years of weight training. Your body fat percentage is 33.7%.

[00:07:10]>> Oh.

[00:07:10]>> So, what would you say it was? Is that a higher or lower?

[00:07:12]>> I would be higher.

[00:07:13]>> And your muscle score, body fat mass index, is 18.5. That is above average.

[00:07:20]That actually puts you if there's like a ranking and it puts you at like advanced gym user.

[00:07:25]>> So cool.

[00:07:26]>> So, that is one of the uh side effects of actually having a higher mass amount of, you know, having more mass on your body. The heavier you are, the more you're putting on your body that it has to work harder. That is a big reason why you get to eat more calories to maintain that because think about it as strapping a bunch of weight to your body. Wait wearing a weighted vest all the time.

[00:07:51]For me, sometimes I was double wearing my twins and at this point when I'm carrying them both, that's 65-ish pounds or maybe heavier than that. And I can I can feel it in my joints, you know, I just feel it everywhere. It takes a lot more on you know, puts a lot more on my muscles to have to work. A lot more for my cardiovascular to have to work. And that's why a lot of people with more mass tend to have more muscle and higher bone density. That's why on some studies vegans will tend to look like they have low density bones because they generally tend to be lower BMI. And this is also why I don't really like BMI as a way of talking about health because on that scale even my husband who is very fit, very healthy, who has very good amount of musculature, he is considered overweight. And you know, I have to laugh at that because a lot of people in the fitness industry can really relate to that that they are considered overweight. I've never gotten so muscular that I was put in that category, but I've tipped on the edge of it before. Like I've gotten close.

[00:09:03]>> The good news is despite not working out, both Amy and Michelle actually have more muscle than most of our other subjects.

[00:09:11]>> Hey.

[00:09:11]>> It's exactly what I was saying before.

[00:09:13]They have more muscle because they have more mass.

[00:09:16]>> Hey.

[00:09:18]Dude, I think you should try 40.

[00:09:20]So, you actually have more muscle than every girl who's here today and most of the guys.

[00:09:27]Which is crazy considering you do not work out.

[00:09:30]>> to carry this body around.

[00:09:32]>> The downside is all the extra weight they are carrying can make staying active much harder.

[00:09:36]>> I have chronic fasciitis for a long time. Um I was working in the culinary industry, so I was always on my feet and I would have suffered.

[00:09:44]>> But regardless of where you fall, most people's goal is to build more muscle while losing their excess fat. And if you do this properly, you'll land in what I call the athletic physique, which is defined by an above-average amount of muscle paired with low body fat. Usually below 18% body fat for guys and below 28% for women.

[00:10:02]>> This is where I feel like I would relate. I'd probably be in this category right here.

[00:10:07]>> But I think it's also there's a pretty wide range of what athletic can look like depending on how much muscle you have. Max and Bailey are both aspiring bodybuilders, where Ethan and Cole are both incredibly lean but aren't actually carrying that much more muscle than some of our skinnier body types.

[00:10:22]>> What it's been like growing up? Was there like a big lifestyle difference, activity difference?

[00:10:27]>> Our mom enrolled us in like every sport with the same. We played on the same team sometimes, ate meals. It's not like I made my own meals or anything. We actually did everything like quite the same. My guess is like there's like this side of the family, like our mom's side of the family is very like there's a lot of Yeah, like farmer, yeah. And then there's the other side that my mom also had that like there's a little bit of thin and my dad's side that has a little bit of a thinner build.

[00:10:51]>> What's fascinating about what she said there is so I have twins and they are not identical twins. They are boy-girl twins, so I mean they're just siblings at this point. But what I think is interesting is they both nursed the same. They both ate the same food. They both go around to the same exact activities and I can clearly see that between my twins there's a genetic difference there and I think with the emergence of GLP-1s and everybody talking about the genetic differences between people and their appetites, I think this plays into it.

[00:11:30]And then also just the way your body might handle the amount of food that you're eating. So, there's obviously a genetic factor when it comes to satisfaction in food, but also in how your body will shape up, or are you more likely to get heart disease even at a healthy body weight? So, there's a lot of genetics that are still factored in that I don't want to ignore because it is there, but I don't want to say it's a handicap because you can still overcome that.

[00:12:01]And I'm not saying that one of my kids is obese or anything like that. I'm just saying there's a huge difference between my twins, and you would never guess that they were related, let alone twins.

[00:12:13]And so, uh I I just it's just so funny to me cuz everybody's always so worried about a vegan diet in children, and all of my kids ended up looking fairly different from each other. There's not a lot of similarities yet when it comes to how they've grown, and that's all on a very wholesome plant-based diet their whole life.

[00:12:37]>> I'll show your live results right here.

[00:12:39]I want you to organize yourselves based on who you think was eating the most calories.

[00:12:46]>> The short of this one is the small guy, which is counter to what I've said before, is the one that burns the most amount of calories, but he's got a lot of non-exercise activity thermogenesis in his day that helped him with that.

[00:13:02]>> So, you predicted that you were eating 2,000 calories per day.

[00:13:07]That's what you predicted.

[00:13:08]>> Yeah, perfect.

[00:13:09]>> Sounds perfect. Yeah.

[00:13:11]So, you were actually eating 3,300 calories per day.

[00:13:18]What was happening? David was eating that to gain an extra >> That's one example of what I was talking about in my how much I eat per per day.

[00:13:30]This guy thought he was eating over 1,000 calories less than he was actually eating.

[00:13:36]And his results speak to that, too.

[00:13:40]>> a pound of fat every week. And he was our second guy in a row who was eating far more than he predicted. So, in order to find out what was causing such a disparity, I put together a snack table in our waiting room with two hidden cameras to find out which foods our subjects choose to eat.

[00:13:57]>> I love that they did this experiment cuz it really is more eye-opening to to everyone cuz some people aren't very aware of what they do with these little habits. Deck?

[00:14:07]>> You do.

[00:14:08]>> Based on our little spy cam here, it looks like you have a sweet tooth and you love your snacks, in fact.

[00:14:13]>> I love my snacks.

[00:14:14]>> The twins, they both pretty much avoided the snack table altogether, and their daily calories were actually lower than Maria's. So, what was going on? Well, after digging deeper, I did find out they've both recently been watching what they eat and consistently losing weight.

[00:14:28]And one thing I did notice is that neglecting hard strength training was actually a common trend amongst everyone in this group.

[00:14:34]>> I've tried going to the gym and I just don't see results, so I >> This is why I emphasize strength training all the time. Uh we can all be cardio bunnies, and that's a great goal, but for the most part, if all you want to do for cardio is some walking, I'm telling you, you do some strength training, depending on the amount of reps you get, you're going to get your heart rate going, too. And I feel like my race last year was very much proof of that, that you can maintain a fairly high VO2 max without having to do a ton of cardio.

[00:15:09]But at the very least, when you're doing strength training, you're increasing muscle mass and bone density.

[00:15:17]>> I have they can >> You're right.

[00:15:18]>> Mhm.

[00:15:19]>> It's mostly they're running. But since I'm like the twins, they've been >> He's just mostly did running.

[00:15:23]>> The lack of strength training means that nearly all of that weight gain is getting stored as fat, which helps explain why David says each year his body just keeps getting softer and softer.

[00:15:33]>> I got the skinny fat.

[00:15:34]>> When I was younger and in college, all I did was run. I mean, not all of it. I say mostly because I was running 45 mi a week in college. Part of that was because I was in ROTC in the military. I wanted to make sure I was fast, and I was.

[00:15:51]But, because of that, and what little calisthenics I got from PT, wasn't enough to make me not have that skinny fat look. I felt like I'm getting lighter, but I wasn't getting any shape.

[00:16:04]Um, as some people say, cardio tends to just give you the same body shape, but a smaller version of it. So, if your goal is to try and look different, or at least add some more metabolically active muscle, then you need to strength train.

[00:16:21]And it's really easy to do. If all you want to do is be lazy in a way, just do what I was doing for a while, and just stick to calisthenics, and then increase the difficulty with it, so you can at least progress over time.

[00:16:34]>> Subjects who are strength training, I get to a point and after that I would just >> And then I'll stop there.

[00:16:39]>> David is somebody who he loves to be comfortable, so if you can take that comfort away from him, he will run away and cry. But, David, >> That's the key, man.

[00:16:47]>> It's just grabbing those heavier weights that make me feel like I look like puffy and bulky after. Right. Which I need to >> But, have you ever looked puffy and bulky after?

[00:16:56]>> Probably not. Probably not.

[00:16:58]>> This is a big contrast from our bulky body type, where all the extra muscle actually came with some serious advantages. Here I have it at 2,600 calories. That's what your ring predicted your metabolism >> So, he's wearing something that predicts how how much he's burning, and I've never been about that. I've never tracked how many calories that I was burning through exercise or just existing. It just didn't make sense.

[00:17:22]That's why calorie counting only I think works if you're comparing it to some measurements for yourself. And even then, it still doesn't you know, show you everything because you could be gaining muscle while losing fat with the scale not changing. And this right here it it's going to be shown that it's not very accurate.

[00:17:44]>> That's your actual metabolism or how many calories your your body burns per day? 3,033 calories. Wow.

[00:17:52]Interesting.

[00:17:53]>> So he he burns quite a bit. A lot more than a lot of people might be thinking and a lot more than he was thinking.

[00:17:59]>> Okay. I'm trusting my my ring now. I don't know if I should trust my ring now.

[00:18:04]So one thing I noticed is our bulky subjects were burning way more calories compared to our skinny and fat group.

[00:18:09]You actually burn >> This one is awesome.

[00:18:13]>> [clears throat] >> I don't even know how tall she is, but she looks short in this video. We'll see.

[00:18:19]>> 3,274 calories per day.

[00:18:22]>> What?

[00:18:22]>> Notice how she burns more than the guy in the bulky category just before who her who probably is taller than she is.

[00:18:30]This is what I mean. People might not believe me when I say that I can maintain, and I keep throwing that out there. I can maintain at 3,000 calories on a high carb, low fat diet for my current body size. If I want to change, I might have to change that. If I wanted to lose weight, I'd probably have to drop those by a lot or change the macros somehow. But see how much she is burning every single day, and she doesn't even realize it.

[00:18:59]>> Yes, you have like a very, very high daily calorie burn. And as you dug into the data, we saw a couple reasons why this is happening. First, all of our bulky subjects were already living a relatively active life with strength training and usually some form of cardio or step counting.

[00:19:16]>> I love weight training, not powerlifting, just like classic standard weight training. I do martial arts, boxing, and kickboxing.

[00:19:22]>> I try to get at least like 10,000 steps a day. Secondly, as you know by now, the more you weigh, the more calories you tend to burn just from living. But this is especially true if that extra weight is muscle. May not sound like much, but when you're comparing someone with 20 or even 30 lbs more muscle, it starts adding up. You know, >> And this is why I always mention that I have been working out and strength training for a long time, so that people understand that they might be my height, they might be a, you know, a little bit heavier than me, but you can't assume that you can then eat the amount that I eat and drop to my size because the amount of muscle I have, I I remember testing it a long time ago, and it's obviously changed over time, but it was fairly high for my size, and I it even surprised me.

[00:20:14]So I know I've got more muscle even though it doesn't look like that because I might not have the biggest, but I might not have like the the largest shoulders or anything like that, but what you see is just muscle on me.

[00:20:27]Which is why when Which is why when I do have more body fat on me, you can still see my abdominal muscles. The people that always claim that if you can see a woman's abs, that means she's probably unhealthy and doesn't have her period, but that's not true. I just have more mass in my abdominals than somebody else who doesn't, right? I mean, once again, genetics plays a factor.

[00:20:51]>> Put these factors together, and it explains why someone like Melody can lose fat on a diet of 2,500 calories a day, while Paula would have to stick to just 1,500 calories to lose the same amount.

[00:21:02]>> And this is why some coaches do recommend things like tracking because what if uh the one the woman on the right who is able to burn 3,200 calories. That's how much she can burn in a day. And obviously, as you lose weight, that number will come down because it's it's a variable thing and it's going to be based on everything else in your body. If you lose muscle [clears throat] and fat as you're losing weight, you're obviously not going to be burning as much calories. That's why it's not a simple calories in calories out equation. Plus, we don't know all of it cuz not all of us have has this access to the doubly water.

[00:21:40]So, you see the woman on the right and the woman on the left and assume they're about the same height here. And the same a coach might put them on the same diet.

[00:21:51]Say it's let's go modest here. Let's let's say it's 1,800 calories. Maybe she's going to maintain maybe she might even gain. I forget how much it was she was actually burning, probably 2,000.

[00:22:04]Yeah, let's go 2,000. I think that's what she was burning.

[00:22:07]And then uh the woman on the right, if we would have put her on an 1,800 calorie diet, she would be so hungry that she would binge eat on the weekends and then wonder why it is she's not finding success. This was the category I was finding myself in when I first found like more of the Chef AJ approach because I was uh calorie I was eating such calorie dilute foods in such high quantities without any other protein starch like it was some starches with a lot of vegetables.

[00:22:41]And I lost yeah, I got ripped by doing that because I was under eating by a lot, but because it looked like it was 1,800 calories on my calculator, I felt felt like there was something wrong with me because I was struggling to maintain the diet and I was struggling to maintain that body weight. It's when I started losing periods again.

[00:23:03]So, you have to be careful with the advice that you take when it comes to as like that's why some people want you to eat unlimited or eat as much as you are hungry for.

[00:23:16]Uh that's that's better advice than somebody giving a blanket 1,200 calorie a diet day or 1,500 calorie diet. Um we have to be looking at what it is is appropriate for our own body and our own like size. Like you have to factor in a whole bunch of things. And as you can see, these women who on screen look like they're similar-ish in size have drastically different burning rates.

[00:23:46]>> Now, if that's the case, then what's stopping our bulky group from burning through fat like they're on easy mode?

[00:23:52]>> We love food. Me and my husband love food. So, it's like it's so hard.

[00:23:55]Working out is very simple, but food is so challenging.

[00:23:58]>> So, if we treat Aaron as an outlier, we can remove her. We can actually see a clear trend in how much each group is underestimating how many calories they're eating based on their body fat.

[00:24:08]So, you predicted that you eat between 1,800 to 2,200 calories per day. You actually >> So, this is where we go back to how much we think we eat to how much we actually eat.

[00:24:19]>> ate 3,000 calories per day.

[00:24:23]>> There's a woman who's maintaining about maintaining right there uh eating nearly as much as she burns.

[00:24:32]Right?

[00:24:34]So, it's no surprise there.

[00:24:37]>> [laughter] >> I'm curious why the discrepancy.

[00:24:41]>> I don't know. I live downtown, so it's easy to walk out and go to a new restaurant or just grab a drink or something.

[00:24:48]>> For a lot of people, that discrepancy, especially for parents, might look like um having little tastes and snacks as you're cooking, uh eating off your kids plates, sharing food. For me, it's going to different events, mostly for kids, and they're always being some sort of snacky thing. This is why I don't buy that stuff. Like, I don't buy chips for my own home because I cannot control that.

[00:25:14]Like, yeah, what what is There are I It's easy for me to say no to the whole bag than it is for me to have just a few because once you get that going, it's it's really hard to stop. So, once it's in front of me, it's once again another question in your mind, should I have some, should I not have some? How much should I have?

[00:25:33]Should I quit now? I mean, I've already screwed it up. Do I start eating the other snacks? So, there's, you know, and then we don't we don't we're not very good at tracking how much we indulge on the side because if you've ever calculated how many chips you get to have per serving, you might be astonished at how very little it is.

[00:25:56]>> Two to three times a week. Your actual calorie intake, 2,837 calories.

[00:26:03]>> Again, a drastic difference there.

[00:26:05]>> But with 500 calories or more for some of our participants, what exactly they were overeating was led to some alarming health concerns. So, this >> That is something that the high carb, low fat people have been saying for so long.

[00:26:18]It the macros very much matter.

[00:26:21]Eating more whole whole foods is a good thing, but if a lot of the food is coming from even the high fat plant fats or some high fat plant foods, you might run into issues cuz you unfortunately, you can't just eat those ad libitum unless you have the ability to control that naturally or genetically. Like, that that's the genetic variance between people. Some people have the ability to be like, that's as much as I need, and you know, I'm full, and you push away the plate.

[00:26:53]But, for a lot of people, they struggle with that, which is why, unfortunately, there's things like measuring or weighing, and people don't like to hear it, but sometimes you have to be a little more careful, and in the case for a high-carb, low-fat people, some of them just avoid it entirely. They eat zero overt fats. I always have recommended during this whole journey, no oil.

[00:27:19]No oil if you have certain And I'm going to caveat that because as a Korean, you know, half-Korean, I do put a, you know, a couple drops of sesame seed oil on some foods for flavor.

[00:27:33]But, beyond that, I've never needed to cook with oil or throw it in salads or anything like that, because I just know I'm tossing on a lot more fat calories that will increase the overall caloric intake, while also being really easy to be stored as body fat compared to the other macros. You know what's interesting is some people will go through life eating a healthy or balanced diet, uh and think that they're not doing too much harm. Like, I know people who will have, um you know, if you just assume meat is okay in their world, they'll have like bacon and eggs for breakfast, thinking that because they went without toast, that's all right, but, you know, butter's good. But, now that sourdough is popular, maybe they're having sourdough, too. And then lunch, maybe it's sandwiches, and sandwiches aren't a bad thing, but if it's going to be like a high-fat sandwich, there you go. And then dinner, maybe it's steak and a vegetable and potatoes, and that sounds healthy, and people think that's healthy overall, when, you know, probably way back in the day, that was an incredibly indulgent meal, and it still should be considered an incredibly indulgent meal to have all that animal product on your plate three times a day.

[00:28:52]And it's not a wonder like Americans are overweight because this is the standard.

[00:28:58]And if it's not that, it's worse. It's going to be looking like burgers and takeout and Oreos.

[00:29:04]So, even on a healthy diet we're still going to be having issues.

[00:29:11]We might have a lot of visceral fat. We might have a heart attack down the line and wonder how it's possible that this healthy person had a heart attack when they eat healthy.

[00:29:21]So, uh Yeah, I feel like he's an example of that, but I've seen people leaner than him be an example of that.

[00:29:29]>> You didn't know that fatty foods and sugar can build up your visceral fat over time. And unlike normal fat, visceral fat is alive. It spits out harmful chemicals that can lead to disease and even early death. It also makes your gut look and feel bigger.

[00:29:44]>> That's why I don't feel like people understand that excess adipose tissue on your body is not neutral. It produces hormones in your body. Just like muscle is metabolically active, and that's a good thing, and it does a lot to help our health.

[00:30:01]Excess body fat will also affect our overall health and not in a positive way.

[00:30:08]>> And we actually eating 3,900 calories per day.

[00:30:14]>> So, this is the woman who thought she had a slow metabolism. And actually, we'll see. She predicted this is how much she eats.

[00:30:22]And this is her actual intake. I guess we're going to soon compare it to how much she actually burns.

[00:30:28]>> [laughter] >> I love a double cheeseburger.

[00:30:33]Damn, that's really eye-opening.

[00:30:35]>> Meanwhile, AJ was eating almost 800 calories above what he gets. Do many cook at home, but I also eat out quite a bit. Plus, snacks. I do eat a lot of snacks. Yeah.

[00:30:45]>> So, that's what I mean. When people think that they're eating fairly healthy when they eat at home, and then they don't take into account all the times they eat out or all the snacks that they consume, they just assume they're being healthy, and then wonder why it is that their results don't reflect what they think they're doing.

[00:31:02]>> I got one. Like a lot of chocolate stuff and like caramel stuff.

[00:31:06]>> I've never been conscious about what I'm eating or anything nutrition value or >> And while having this low metabolism wasn't actually contributing to the weight gain?

[00:31:15]>> So, there you go. Uh it looks like she probably burns more than everybody in this group. And which is interesting because the one that's closest to her was also the other woman. The two women are the highest calorie burners that I could that I remember from this whole thing. So, this woman believes she was a low had a slow metabolism, and it just turns out she's eating 5 to 600 calories more than she's burning.

[00:31:41]So, she's obviously easily maintaining her weight, and she could possibly be gaining more weight over time.

[00:31:49]>> There are two genetic factors that still could be giving them a disadvantage. For one, when we look back at the footage from the hidden camera, neither Michelle or AJ grabbed food from the snack table.

[00:31:59]But then, when I watched Michelle sitting and waiting, I noticed that her body was completely still. And when you compare Michelle to someone like Bailey, look at the difference. Bailey is constantly >> So, we mentioned that, but she still burns a lot of calories. So, obviously, it's not her neat to working against her that much. Though, it sounds like she could probably be burning more.

[00:32:19]>> moving and fidgeting, even when her body's trying to sit still. That these small subconscious movements are largely genetic, but they can actually add up to hundreds >> So, this is where I'm going to just go ahead and pause and stop the video and say that obviously, from what we can see in all of these cases is none of these people could accurately determine how much they were eating compared to how much they were actually eating. So, none of these people could accurately tell us how much they were eating cuz they were all off.

[00:32:49]I think the only time we see at all people who can be a little more accurate, it's the the ones that were in the fitness category. They had a better idea of what they were eating.

[00:33:01]But even they were still a little off.

[00:33:03]That's why some people think it's just pointless to track.

[00:33:06]Um but in all these cases, a lot of the people, especially in the the bulky to the higher fat people, they burn plenty of calories. This is why I have said just go to something like starch solution, forget about your vegetables for a while, keep it simple, and eat as much as you desire in that category, and you will see weight drop.

[00:33:28]And until you stop seeing results, don't change a thing.

[00:33:32]And in the skinny fat category, their issue is less so about how much they're eating as it is what they're not doing, and that's strength training. It's getting the the mass bulk on them so they can become a little more metabolically active. Cuz you can see that the more muscle that these people have, the more mass that they have, generally, that's the more calories they burn. And if that's the goal, you want to put more muscle on.

[00:34:00]So, I hope this video was helpful in some way, the commentary.

[00:34:06]I just wanted to I just thought this video was funny after I had to basically defend my position on how many calories I was eating. Some people probably thought it was BS, while others were like, I don't know, they were just jealous. Well, you might actually be burning as much as I am, and you just don't know it.

[00:34:24]Or you're just not accurately tracking how much you're eating, and you think your metabolism's broken when it's maybe not. So, all things to consider. If you have any questions, let me know in the comments below. Thanks.