When you talk about weight loss there are some important distinctions that need to happen. Certainly when you lose weight you are losing some combination of fat, muscle and water. How you workout and when pushes things either in the right direction or the wrong direction (maximizes fat loss compared to water and muscle). 

If you switch to long workouts too soon and avoid certain workouts you will push your body to losing more muscle and water. That's what this podcast walks you through.

Cortisol is a hormone that its heart is meant to tear down tissue. Insulin's role is to build tissue. The problem you run into when you start adding stress on stress on stress. Think, dieting, low carb and working out a lot under fed you are sending a signal to your body that will affect your body's levels of cortisol, wake you up in the middle of the night and your workouts will be awful.

That's what Susan talks about in this important episode that honestly no one talks about. People talk a lot about Cortisol without giving you the key to the anecdote.

Here you go!

Metabolism is strikingly easy, Susan and I walk you through that and go into Metabolic Rate a bit and the factors involved.

In the second half of the podcast we talk about all the things you need to because in case you haven't figured it out you can't push the numbers in and in 4 weeks poof you are down 20 pounds. 

In this episode we explain why.

This was the result of a poll that I posted on Facebook. What was interesting about it is that everyone got the answer right but didn't always know why. Susan and I broke it down in this episode which ended up super interesting.

I am a big fan of KidStrong and ParentStrong for young families. Megin and Matt asked my to come and talk to their parents about their nutrition but I also brought some tips from when my kids were young. As you can probably tell we are good friends so I think that made the conversation more enjoyable and hopefully fun to listen to for all of you.

This weekend my Brother in Law passed away. The obituary will say he died of a heart attack but he essentially died of fear. My family was robbed of more years with him because he believed in shortcuts and googled too much. 

Because of that we lost a great person who didn't want to do a scary thing and didn't want to listen to the truth. 

I suspect many of us out there deal with this and often embrace bad ideas out of fear. The message of this podcast is do the hard thing because people need you in their life.

It feels like we have turned a bit of a corner but everyone is in a different place. Susan and I talk about the various scenarios and the small changes that can really make a big difference.

We also had a great discussion about weight and self worth and try to give some thoughts and perspective on that concept.

Scott Hall is a lifetime member of Eat To Perform and we feature him a lot on the main page. He is also one of the head coaches at Kansas City Barbell. His transformation was incredible and he talks about why he thinks it happened so fast and the motivations that made that happen.

We also talk about Testosterone Replacement (whenever we put up a pic of Scott everyone screams STEROIDs, so we talk about that) and the difference between going to a doctor to address a deficiency and Steroids. 

The part that I found the most interesting was the discussion on motivation and why people often need big events to make great chance.

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This came out SO good. Much of the industry gets super bored with the basics and foundational information but with no clients entering the market every day the fundamentals are often missed.

Here are some great examples we talked about:

Why Collagen is not a good source of protein and no one else is saying that. Note Jason sells collagen in some of his products so I thought his take on it was really interesting.

Why just eating real food often means you fall short on crucial macros and micros.

How to get your kids the right amount of nutrients in foods they like.

Show notes: Once again this is not about female hormone replacement but many women also suffer from low testosterone as they age so I think it can be informative for women also. The most important part is to find a practitioner that mostly does hormone replacement.

One of the more popular podcasts we did in the last year was with Gil on hormone replacement. In this episode we dive deeper since I am 3 months into Testosterone Replacement Therapy. I go into why I started and what the changes are that have happened thus far.

One of the big reasons I am trying to be so open about this process is because many people don't use a doctor with some really bad results. As Gil talks about even USING a doctor that isn't familiar has pitfalls. 

Gil also does a great job explaining what happens once you start taking testosterone towards the end of the podcast with great and super informative detail.