38: JJ Virgin On Burning Fat, Healing After Her Son's Accident & Why Weight Loss Isn't About Calories
The mindbodygreen Podcast
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You Can't Exercise Your Way Out of a Bad Diet
"It was really obvious fast that I couldn't and everything back then was if you want to lose weight, you have to create a calorie deficit of 500 calories a day," she says. "I started using skin-filled calipers combined with the tape measure, combined with the scale early on." The trainer switched out of a doctoral program in exercise science to start studying nutrition. 'We need to make sure what we're doing is telling our body to burn fat'
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