Perspectives #23: Weight Loss Diets for Endurance Performance, with Namrita Brooke
Empirical Cycling Podcast
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How Much Should You Eat to Maintain Your Energy Balance?
How do we start with knowing how much somebody should eat in general? Like, like what's your basal metabolic rate? How much non exercise energy are you expending on the bike? Where can somebody get a good idea of where to start and then how to adjust as they go? Yeah. The best way to figure out is to figure out what your maintenance level is. And so if you want to ignore hormones right now and just go back to true energy balance and really make it simple, you just need to eat less than that.
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