Episode 2: Ask Leigh – Psychological Set Point?
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Leigh – Thanks so much for answering my question! (It was the last one). I should have been more clear when I said I was sensitive to water retention with training – I was speaking more of aggressive training, such as NROL/NROLFW. Anyway, it’s nice to know that I’m on the right track with my training!
Great podcast Leigh. I never make that injury connection.
I will look into Keith’s Stuff.
Oooo a podcast I am going to download now!
yay! Another podcast!!
Ooh love the stuff about psychological setpoints
And lovin the frequent podcasts! I like to listen to them on long pointless walks – makes my NEAT so much more interesting!
Very good content. Just finished listening. Only took a couple days listening 5-10 minutes at a time. What was the show you mentioned on style/dressing? The one that’s not What Not to Wear.
Leigh………Thanks, once again, for the incredible podcast. I loved the topics and the 30-minute(ish) time frame. It’s just perfect.
I have to say that I identified so much with Kim’s question/problem that I actually started crying because that could be me to a “T.” I am now actually 5 pounds heavier than when I started training with you and have NOT kept it real. I’m sitting here now in baggy sweatpants so that I don’t have to face what I’ve let myself become. I can say that I’m not happy with it, but I haven’t done anything despite seeing the scale move up. Thanks for giving us both the answers we (your audience) want to hear and what we NEED to hear. I’m just hoping that if I hear stuff like this more often, something will click.
Once again, thanks so much for a great podcast!
I’m still waiting for a post connected to the mathematics of weight loss, cause the email you sent about “diet is everything” was confusing. First, I thought NEAT was everything – and for a lot of the 20 pounds I lost in the last 2 months, it was key. Second, in other podcasts you’ve talked about activity being the difference between burning 10 times your bodyweight and burning 30 times it. I agree with that, and it’s really really hard to eat less than 10 times my bodyweight, even in very clean foods, whereas upping my low-level walking and other exercise doesn’t make me proportionately more hungry. Finally, 500 calories of exercise – I assume my usual 7-mile running loop burns around 550. Am I totally off base?
RG-Some good points. Let me clarify.
Diet is everything. The reason it is everything is because you can walk 10 miles, clean your house, and exercise all you want, but if you are eating in a surplus you are still going to gain fat. You can jog around New York but is stuffing your face with eclairs or heck even chicken, you still with gain fat.
So that is what I mean by that statement. The age old “can’t out train a bad diet” is true just as much as you can’t “out NEAT” one.
With increased general activity though we will
A) Hit more caloric burn
B) Experience the positive benefits of moving
C) Less likely to be bored and bored eating
All those things make it a lot easier to make that diet part work better. The diet is still everything, but how much you get to eat, how good you feel, and how hard/easy it is IMO depends a lot on activity.
Make sense?
Thanks! Yeah, I know that eating is part of the equation, but I do think activity (for small sedentary women esp) matters. it all matters, unfortunately
And, being a mathematician by training and trade, I do like to “crunch the numbers” since, as a small woman, cloaking happens. it helps me keep perspective between a “not amazing weight loss” week versus a “gain”. And I do it kind of like the email, okay my sedentary lifestyle gives me X, my extra exercise gives me Y, my food uses up Z, so my weight loss is x+y-z. I know all of these are estimates, but essentially I think x and z are similar numbers and most of my loss is coming from the exercise.