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Episode #222: The Science of Losing Fat vs. Muscle

Barbell Medicine Podcast

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The Effects of Calories on Weight and Body Fat

There's so many different mechanisms by which different people might have varying compensation for the same amount of excess energy or an energy deficit. One person might spontaneously start moving around a ton more, not consciously. And that's just one variable among many that can impact the degree to which somebody's weight and body fat trajectory may deviate from what a simple math equation might predict. Some people will respond to an energy deficit and have a reduced amount of non-exercise activity.

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