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E168 | Why Your Husband Loses Weight Faster
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Your husband swaps soda for walks and drops 20 pounds, and you’re over here meal prepping, tracking, and grinding for a single pound. That gap is real, it’s common, and it doesn’t mean you’re broken. Laken and Lindsey are laying out the physiology that explains why fat loss often looks different for women, especially when hormones and stress are in the mix.
We talk through the biggest biological drivers: why women naturally carry more essential body fat, why men usually have more skeletal muscle, and how that muscle advantage boosts basal metabolic rate (BMR) and makes carbs easier to “burn through.” We also get practical about what muscle actually does for metabolism, insulin sensitivity, and blood sugar regulation, plus why lifting heavy won’t magically make you look like a man.
Then we zoom in on perimenopause and menopause. Progesterone often falls first, sleep can unravel, estrogen can swing month to month, and testosterone can decline, creating the perfect storm for cravings, plateaus, and new belly fat. We connect the dots between visceral fat, inflammation, cortisol, and insulin resistance, and we explain why slashing calories and adding more cardio can backfire by downshifting NEAT, thyroid function, and hunger hormones.
Finally, we share the “what now” checklist: the labs that can reveal what’s actually blocking progress and the core habits we come back to again and again: strength training, protein at each meal, fewer naked carbs, better sleep, stress support, and a plan that works with your body instead of against it.
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Welcome And The Core Frustration
SPEAKER_00Any views, thoughts, and opinions expressed on the Rejuvenating Health podcast are solely those of the speakers and are intended as such. Please consult your trusted health care practitioner for medical advice. Let's go, girls.
SPEAKER_01Welcome back to the Rejuvenating Health Podcast. I am Coach Lakin, and as always, I'm joined by Women's Health Nurse Practitioner Lindsay. And today we're talking about something fun. We're going to go into one of the really big frustrations that we hear from women all the time. And, you know, it sounds a lot like my husband gave up soda and started walking and lost 20 pounds, and I'm still fighting against, you know, one pound on the scale. Or, you know, I meal prep and count my calories and do all the things and do all my movement and nothing tends to happen. And we hear this a lot. Like, you know, women will say things like, I I just smell a cookie and I gain five pounds. And we know obviously that's not literally true, but it can it can feel that way sometimes. And often when there's a direct comparison in your household living with you that's doing the same things as you and getting far faster results, then that can be really frustrating. So why is this happening, Lindsay?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, it I think it's very frustrating for any woman that you've talked about when they're doing a nutrition journey with their husband and they're like, I'm trying so hard, and he's not trying. And yeah. But okay,
Why Women Are Not Small Men
SPEAKER_00so first of all, let's normalize something. Like, you're not failing, okay. In general, I would probably say until the last five-ish years, we as women have been just constantly following advice that was largely built upon men. It's starting to change a little bit. We're still not there at all. But most research around nutrition until really the 1990s excluded women because they just thought that we were too hard. We were too complicated. Like because of our hormones, we were just too complicated. So we're just not gonna study them.
SPEAKER_01So you just have to do like the 90s, which like I want to let that sink in because I feel like people think like this is something that happened long a long, long time ago. No, the 90s is when women started to be considered. Which is that's insane.
SPEAKER_00That's so wild. It's yeah. And so women until then, really until recently, I feel like we're just expected to lose weight the same way men lost weight.
SPEAKER_01And if you're like scale it down a little bit, they're just just little.
SPEAKER_00If you really stop and think about it, that makes zero sense at all because we are nothing like men. Like, so today we're gonna try to explain to you the physiology because once you understand your biology a little bit, it will make a lot more sense to you. And you can kind of one stop comparing yourself to your husband and stop blaming yourself, your body for not cooperating to things that probably you shouldn't have been doing in the first place.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Yeah. So, like, you know, like you said, we're very different and we're we were never designed to have the same metabolism.
SPEAKER_00No, like I mean, you just go back to evolution. Men were men evolved primarily for hunting, like huntering and gathering to take care of the family. Women evolved for survival of the species. Like you evolved to to make babies and raise babies, essentially. I know it's 2026 and that's not how it is now, but that's where we came from. And those jobs are very, very different, very different. So, as women, we evolved to preserve energy, protect fertility, store fat during times of famine, support a pregnancy, support breastfeeding. Like your body doesn't care that you're trying to fit into your genes that you wore 10 years ago. It it cares that it wants you to be responsible for keeping a human live, whether that's pregnancy, breastfeeding, whatever.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. I think it's important to reference that what we're like when we say women's bodies evolved. Like that doesn't mean that our brains evolved to just do those things. And that's why people want to get up in arms and be like, I, you know, I'm so I carry so much more value than that. That's not what we're saying. You're biologically, your body evolved for that mode, that method, that job, that preservation. And that's why we talk all the time about how the body wants to achieve that homeostasis. Like that's what we're meant for and why we need safety in the body in order to be able to get it to perform the way that we want it to.
Muscle, BMR, And Testosterone Gaps
SPEAKER_00Yeah, and that's why women naturally carry more fat. Like women naturally carry eight to twelve percent more essential body fat than men. So your husband can't get down to eight percent body fat. That's not realistic. Like you're like you're probably more like 20. Like that's just how it is.
SPEAKER_01That's his 8% is not going to affect his hormonal makeup versus if you were to drop down below 10, even perhaps below 15%. Yeah, you're gonna be struggling.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. You also have to know that like men on average have 30 to 40 percent, that's a lot, more skeletal muscle mass. So, what does that mean? They can eat a lot more food than us, like 30 to 40 percent more food than us, because by just sitting there, their metabolism is is so much faster than ours, right? So, you you need to understand metabolic rate, like BMR. And I don't think a lot of people understand that at all. And so your BMR is how many calories your body burns, literally just laying in bed all day, not moving an inch. The more to live, the more muscle you have, the higher it is. So you can have two women that weigh 130 pounds. One woman's BMR is 900 because she has no muscle. My BMR is 1500. So I'm like, I'm naturally burning 600 more calories a day just by living because I have muscle mass. Every pound of muscle requires energy 24 hours a day. So the more that you have, the more energy you're gonna burn, which is why we stress so, so, so, so, so much about muscle. This is also your BMR is what you need to live. You should never be eating under your BMR. Like that is wild. If someone's giving you a calorie count of a thousand calories, I guarantee your BMR is higher than that. And you should not be eating below that.
SPEAKER_01That's also just essentially keeping your body in like a fight or flight response because it it can't function the way that it's intended to. So it's in preservation mode.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, yeah. Like in again, we're gonna pound on muscle, but muscle isn't just for cosmetic looks. Like, yes, being lean and having muscle definition is awesome. I guarantee you, like, you're not gonna look like a man unless you take anabolic steroids. So stop thinking that if you lift heavy weights, you're gonna look like man because it's not gonna happen. Muscle is always it's it's just really metabolically important. Like it's your largest glucose disposal organ. So it literally acts like a sponge for any type of carbohydrates that you want to eat. So if you love ice cream, get some muscle because it's gonna burn through that ice cream like a lot better. Like you need less insulin the more muscle you have. The less insulin you need, the less fat storage you have. This is why men lose weight and are leaner because they have so much more muscle, they can burn through carbohydrates so much more efficiently than us.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. And that speaks directly to the insulin resistance that comes up all the time that we talk about and that we see all the time. It's like if there's a deficiency in your muscle mass and your lean muscle tissue, then there's not enough there to burn through the amount of glucose that you're putting in your system, aka sugar through processed carbohydrates or any other sugar-filled foods and heavy starches. So then when we do that and we don't have the muscle in place to be able to burn through it, that's when the system gets overloaded and it's going to have to dump that somewhere else, or it's not going to receive the signals properly.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. Men also have 10 to 20 times more testosterone than us. So an optimal level for women naturally of testosterone is 50. An optimal level for men is like 7 to 900, 10 to 20 times more testosterone. You don't go trying to get the testosterone of a man, ladies. That will give you some negative side effects.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, you do not feel good.
SPEAKER_00There is a lot of metabolic benefits to testosterone. It can increase protein synthesis, it can improve your insulin sensitivity, it can increase dopamine, increase motivation, build muscle, improve recovery, increase your energy expenditure. Again, you should not be having the testosterone level of a man. They just naturally burn more calories than we do because they have more testosterone. Now you put that into a woman that's entering perimenopause, so her testosterone is declining. I mean, sometimes I see women with no testosterone at all, and declining estrogen and declining progesterone, like that metabolic environment is way different than a man's.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Yeah. So we keep thinking that we're running the same race when we're doing the same lifestyle habits, but it's a completely different, like it's like you're do he's doing a triathlon and you're playing pickleball. Like you're not even in the same arena.
SPEAKER_00It's a completely different game. Yeah, it is completely different. So, and you will see this in men. Like, why do men in their 50s start to gain weight a little bit? Because normally their testosterone is starting to decline.
SPEAKER_01And their muscle mass is declining in response to that.
Perimenopause And The Belly Fat Shift
SPEAKER_00Yeah. Yeah. Like they're gaining weight too. You also see this in women. Like perimenopause is not a day in time. If you've listened to this podcast, you've heard it is menopause is one day in time. Everything before is peri, everything after is post. Perimenopause can last for 15 stinking years. So you hit age 35 and your hormonal changes can start happening. And when that happens, like your ovaries start aging. And when ovaries start aging, your progesterone declines first. Then your ovulation becomes a little bit inconsistent. Without ovulation, if you're not ovulating every month, your progesterone falls. Progesterone is really calming. It helps you sleep. It balances out your estrogen. It reduces anxiety. So a lot of times what happens is your progesterone falls and your sleep goes down the toilet. And what did we talk about last week with sleep?
SPEAKER_01Like it is absolutely necessary for everything else.
SPEAKER_00Your relin goes up, your leptin goes down, your insulin resistance goes up. Like, so that fall and estrogen automatically, or progesterone automatically makes your metabolism not super efficient because you're not sleeping good. Then your estrogen is like a roller coaster. It's high one month, low the next month. It's like wildly fluctuating all over the place. And one month you might be super insulin sensitive, and the next month you're insulin resistant. One month your thyroid might be working properly, and the next month it might not be. One month you might be starving, and the next month your hunger hormones are fine. Like it's messing with your serotonin, your dopamine, your sleep, your inflammatory markers. And then you have declining testosterone on top of it. So you're in like a literally hormonal crap show that can make it hard to lose weight.
SPEAKER_01Meanwhile, like men, it's not that they're not dealing with their own hormonal decline, but theirs really only encompasses like their testosterone is slowly declining. It's like this progression over time. We have this transition period where that ends up being a domino effect for multiple things that can go awry and fluctuate, and then that can cause a litany of their own symptoms.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, and like testosterone's been replaced for forever. Like men just go get on testosterone. It's not hard for them to do. They go to their local PCP, it's been prescribed forever. You know, like women in HRT is a pretty new thing. Yeah. And estrogen is really, really important for that redistribution of fat. If you have lower, like how many women do you say, like, I just woke up and I had a tire in my belly? It's like that isn't cosmetic. That's like your estrogen dropping and you're getting visceral fat. And visceral fat is the worst type of fat you can have. It's yeah, it's hormonally active, meaning that it releases all kinds of inflammatory cytokines. It releases IL6, TN alpha, it worses insulin resistance, and it just kind of creates this vicious cycle. And it feeds the not good estrogen. It feeds the estrone. And the estrone is what causes the cancer. So you just you have this metabolically active fat tissue that is not good metabolically active, it's inflammatory metabolically active. So all this to say is that is one reason you're not losing weight doing the same thing as your husband, is because your hormones
Cortisol, Stress, And Sugar Cravings
SPEAKER_00are way different. Cortisol levels. Yeah, we talk about cortisol all the time, but I don't think that we really talk about like the pathophysiology about it. And essentially, stress or cortisol like elevated cortisol, whatever, stress is anything that threatens homeostasis. So homeostasis is your body's just like think of it as like your thermometer, your temperature, right? Like you just want it to be stable. And there are lots of things that can disrupt this homeostasis: poor sleep, overtraining, under-eating, feeling financial stress, inflammation, having chronic infections, autoimmune diseases, gut dysfunction, not eating enough protein and having blood sugar swings, having emotional trauma, having like perfectionism, all of that type of stuff disrupts your body's homeostasis. And when that disruption happens, your HPA access gets out of whack. So when you that HPA access is your brain, your hypothalamus, your pituitary, and your adrenal glands. So in a normal functioning person, if you have good cortisol, your cortisol is high in the morning and it's low at night. And your melatonin is low in the morning and it's high at night. Cortisol in the morning is supposed to disrupt your homeostasis because it wants you to get out of bed and have energy to like go perform your functions throughout the day. It's low at night because you need to go to sleep. So chronic stress flips it. And so you it makes it impossible to go out of bed in the morning, and it makes it to where when you want to go to sleep at night, you're like wired and you and you can't fall asleep.
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_01This is where we see things like adrenal fatigue over time.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. And a lot of times people don't understand adrenal fatigue when they see their cortisol. Okay. So, first of all, if you're gonna get a cortisol, it needs to be within an hour of waking up. Okay. Cortisol has like. If you're gonna test it. Yeah. And if you like really want to know what your cortisol is doing, you probably need like a four-point test. But if you're doing a blood test, it needs to be an hour with waking up and it needs to be normal's 10 to 15. Then you have stage one where you're like 15 to 20, and you're like, okay, my cortisol's a little high. Then you have stage two where you're like 20 to 25, and you're like, I am my cortisol is really high. And then a lot of the women we see, their cortisol is like eight. And then it's just like your cortisol is just done. It doesn't work. You can't go anymore. So when that cortisol is 15, 20, 25, it causes an elevated blood sugar. So if you have a high cortisol in the morning, you're like if you were, you can probably tell if you have a high cortisol. Where's CGM? If your fasting glucose is elevated, you have high cortisol in the mornings. So high cortisol is going to cause an increase in glucose, which is then gonna spike your insulin, which is a fat storing hormone, which is then gonna downregulate your thyroid conversion and your progesterone and testosterone. So that is automatically just messing up your metabolism and causing an increase in abdominal fat, emotional eating, slower recovery. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01And I don't think this is gonna be a surprise to anyone, at least it shouldn't be, but women tend to experience a larger cortisol response to emotional stress than men, which is part of the reason why there's so many stereotypes about, you know, how emotional that women are compared to men and all this. It it is biological. Like men often have a greater response to physical stress, which is interesting if we think about how the the joke about men, the man cold or the man flu. Like when men are sick, it's like, oh my gosh, you know, the world is ending. I cannot go on. This is terrible. It's because it is a physical stress on the body. And this likely contributes to different eating behaviors too. Like men are not going to emotionally eat to satiate comfort, but see how their eating patterns are different when they are physically injured or physically sick. So there is a different response there. And women will crave, you know, sugar or like uh usually processed carbohydrates after a really stressful day. And that it's not just a matter of disciplines. Like the brain is seeking that quick glucose to restore perceived safety. Now, it doesn't mean that across the board men don't engage in that behavior or that women, you know, don't respond to physical stress and men don't respond to emotional stress. It's just that generally this is what we see when we look at patterns.
SPEAKER_00I mean, yeah, I I men don't have the complex relationship with food that women have. They some do. Right. Some do. I'm not like I some do. But typically, a man isn't emotionally eating. They're eating out of boredom or they're eating out of they had a hard physical day and they didn't eat right all day, and they're waiting to eat one meal at night and they've binged. But it's not normally like a stressful day at work and I'm gonna go eat a bowl of ice cream. Like that's just not typical mint. Again, we're not it's just kind of the way it is. Um and for women, this isn't a lack of discipline. Like I get it, the cravings are for real. Like your brain is actually really seeking quick glucose to perceive safety. And if your body thinks it's running from a bear, because that's what happens when you're stressed out, like your body is in fight or flight, it needs glucose to run from that bear. So it's gonna want sugar. The issue is you're not really running from a bear. You're sitting on your couch eating sugar, watching Netflix. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01And all this goes to say that, you know, either one would benefit from curating an environment that's more conducive, right? Because they'd be willing to bet if you're if you're emotionally eating or you're trying to avoid something or trying to seek emotional safety in some way, and your partner's there and the ice cream is available, they're probably going to engage in that behavior too. So the best case scenario would be just to create a food environment that's going to be beneficial for both parties.
Insulin Spikes, Calories, And Plateaus
SPEAKER_00Yeah. Yeah. And I mean, we talked about insulin some in there. And the one thing I will tell you about women and men's fat loss is that insulin is the same for both. So it's not all one-sided. Like insulin in men is the same as insulin in women. It's just men don't have the super decline in estrogen and they don't have the high cortisol, which makes insulin more of an issue for them. So insulin's job is not to make people fat. Like it, God didn't create insulin for you to be fat. Its job is to keep glucose from becoming toxic. It's to keep your blood sugar from becoming a thousand and you getting in diabetic ketoacidosis and dying. But when you're chronically elevated insulin, it makes it really hard to lose weight. It makes it hard to lose fat, which is why when we check insulin levels of women and their insulin is 30, we're like, oof, you're gonna have a hard time losing weight for a while. Like sometimes it will take three months before they ever lose a pound because their insulin is so high. We have to really work to get that insulin down. And they get really frustrated because they're like, this is why women give up so easily. Yeah. Because they don't see results quick because their insulin is so high. And guess what? A GLP one doesn't lower your insulin. That's why GLP1s don't work for everyone.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, it's just killing your signaling, basically. It's just it's just addressing your hunger and your satiety.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. So if you're like walking around eating a bagel for breakfast with coffee, carbs, caffeine, insulin spike. Then you're eating a snack and it's an apple, great, but it's a naked carb insulin spike. Then you're eating lunch and it's a turkey sandwich, awesome, but it probably has like one slice of turkey on it. So most of it's carbs, insulin spike. Then you're stressed, so you're grabbing MMs from the vending machine, then you're having dinner, and then you're having your glass of wine. How many holy moly, that is a lot of insulin spikes. That is 14, 16, 14 to 16 hours of your day with elevated insulin. Yeah. No way you're losing weight. No way.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. And then that's when insulin resistance comes in.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. And then your muscle becomes resistant to glucose, your liver becomes resistant to it, and your body just keeps compensating and making more insulin, more insulin, more fat storage, more cravings, more inflammation. And this doesn't just happen in perimenopausal women. It also happens in women with PMOS or PCOS. It happens in women that are pre-diabetic. It happens in women who are sleep deprived. Like all of these things cause insulin resistance.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Yeah, which is why it comes up so much and why why like I feel like um insulin or blood sugar regulation is like the new thing, but which thank goodness I'm glad people are aware of it and people are focused. On it. Again, it's not, it's not the one thing. We talk about this all the time. It's the full system, but it is something that is worth paying attention to, and it definitely can be an underlying like marker that's to move other dials.
SPEAKER_00It's mind blowing how many PCPs still do not check an insulin level.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. No, no, I'm just talking about like the mar like how much it's being marketed now. Not unfortunately, not where it needs to be needs to be very prevalent, but that's where that's where the online marketing has been gearing towards. It went from like protein, I feel like, to creatine to now it's like glucose reducing or insulin-reducing products. So let's talk also about like why why it's still important to take calories into account. Like they're not the whole story, but we know that hormones matter. And I think sometimes when we try to get away from the idea of like being too restrictive or counting calories, we start to swing into the un uh fuzzy care category of like calories don't matter, but they do.
SPEAKER_00But yeah, calories absolutely still matter. Like calories in, calories out is still an equation. It's still an energy balance. Now, I don't love macros because it doesn't take into account food quality. But calories in, calories out still matters. Your hormones, though, determine how your body responds to that energy, that calories in, calories out. So if your hormones aren't regulated, like your neat can decrease. So you're not an activity exercise thermogenesis. So, like if you're in a super calorie restriction, you're naturally gonna burn less calories because your body is just naturally gonna stop you from fidgeting. It's gonna naturally slow you down. If you're in a severe calorie deficit, your thyroid is gonna decrease, which is gonna slow down your metabolism. Your leptin's gonna fall, your ghrelin's gonna raise, you're gonna get muscle wasting, and your metabolism is gonna drop. So this is why you can't just slash calories down to 900 when you want to lose weight. It's why it doesn't work because everything else downregulates as well. And that's the same thing.
SPEAKER_01I think your body's trying to find that new homeostasis, it's trying to adapt.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. And and that is the same for men. And no amount of GLP one is gonna fix that.
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_00Right? Yeah. And and and you can see this like happen. Have you ever watched the show Biggest Loser?
SPEAKER_01Like I never watched it. I'm very aware of what it is. I never watched that was a good one.
SPEAKER_00But I've watched documentaries on it. So years later, those contestants that lost all of that weight still have a low BMR. Like it literally destroyed their metabolism. And it's not because they like lack discipline then or now, but your metabolism adapts. And if once you get into that low, low low low calorie deficit, you gotta work your way out of it. And it can take years to work yourself out of it.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_00And that's why you can plateau.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, but I feel like, and again, we it's a skewed audience because we deal with the majority of women, but I feel like women do plateau more frequently than men do.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, and this, and most of the time it's because when women are on a weight loss journey, they're not prioritizing muscle preservation. Right.
SPEAKER_01They're just focusing on weight loss.
SPEAKER_00Anytime you lose weight, you're gonna lose muscle. Like they're like, I don't want people to think that that's not gonna happen. Like if you lose 30 pounds, you're gonna lose some muscle. Like there's there's literally nothing that you can do about it. But the goal is to lose the minimum amount of muscle possible. And you do that by eating adequate protein and strength training and making sure that you don't skip out on your nutrients, making sure that your thyroid starts is still working with selenium and zinc and iodine and iron and B and D, making sure that you're still getting sleep, making sure your gut is still working, not drinking alcohol, focusing on your quality of food. Like those things are gonna make it to where you don't plateau. And sometimes you have to reverse diet out of it and then go back on in.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, because if you've been eating at a significant calorie deficit or if you've been restricting calorie intake for years, which is often what happens with a lot of women, you can't just decide, oh, I'm gonna eat what I'm supposed to be eating and nourish my body and work out. Again, you're it's too quick. We can't go to these extremes to expect the body to just be able to snap to the adjustment. We have to progress it.
Labs, Next Steps, And Final Takeaways
SPEAKER_00So, what do you do if your husband's losing 20 pounds doing nothing and you're stuck and you're not losing weight and you're trying everything? Well, one, don't blame yourself. There's probably something going underlying, but you really need to get some lab work done. And so you're looking at a TSH, a free T3, a free T4, a reverse T3. You're looking at an insulin, an A1C, an HSCRP. You're looking at a ferritin, a vitamin D, a B12, you're looking at your estrogen, your progesterone, your testosterone, you're looking at your cortisol, a lipid panel, your liver enzymes. Like, if you get those tests run, like it's probably gonna give you a pretty good idea of what your metabolism is doing and why you can't why you can't lose weight.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Yeah. Instead of asking, you know, like what diet should I try next? It's like, what is preventing my metabolism from working now as it is? And that's where those tests come in handy, because then we can start to identify, okay, what what are what's the lowest hanging fruit? Where can we make the the most amount of change by pulling one of these levers? Yeah, like And it's the same stuff that we always talk about.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. Again, build muscle. Why? Because myokines and muscles can act as an endocrine organ. Eat your dang protein because you have to to hit muscle protein synthesis and to hit a leucine threshold. So 30 to 40 grams at every meal. Never eat a naked carb, like stabilize your blood sugar, get your seven to nine hours of sleep, manage your chronic stress, optimize your hormones, treat your thyroid, address your gut, get your daily steps in. Like it's everything that we've we keep saying. But I think the point of this episode was to know that like you evolutionary are different than a man. It doesn't mean that you can't lose weight. You're not broken, like you're not losing your body isn't stubborn because it hates you. Like it's literally adapting to the environment you've given it, to the hormonal stage you're in. And the answer isn't like keep slashing calories, keep exercising till you're exhausted. It's really understanding your biology, working with your physiology instead of against it, and then addressing whatever root causes are keeping you from losing weight in the first place. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, like you have to stop fighting the things that are just what they are. Like your biology is what it is, and it you have to start looking at what are the controllable factors that I can do to support it. What are the things that I can put in place that can enable my body to be able to perform the way that it should be or optimally? And what are the things that I'm currently doing that are preventing that from happening?
SPEAKER_00Yeah. So I don't know if this explained why your husband's losing weight and you're not, but hopefully you got some good tidbits out of it.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. And if you have that girlfriend that's always complaining about the fact that her and her husband are doing the same thing and nothing is happening for her, share this with her. It can be very insightful and help her understand some of the whys behind that. And as always, please make sure that you are subscribed. Please rate and review the podcast. It means the world to us. And we'll see you next time.
SPEAKER_00Bye.