Inside The Fat Loss Lie

Calories vs. Hormones: What’s Really Making Fat Loss Feel Difficult?

Why fat loss can feel harder than it should, even when you’re doing most things right. Understanding your body's fat loss efficiency is key. You’ve started making healthier food choices. You’re mindful of your calorie intake. You’re tracking your food, hitting the gym, and saying no to treats. You’re following common advice. So why does fat loss still feel like an uphill battle?

Tired, Wired, and Stuck?
Your Stress Hormones Might Be to Blame

You wake up tired. You crave sugar late at night. You're doing the workouts and eating the right foods, yet that belly fat won't budge. It's not just your willpower. It might be your hormones. More specifically, cortisol.

Body composition is more than just how much you weigh and how tall you are. Body composition breaks the body into fat mass and fat-free mass. Typically, the more fit and healthy someone is, the lower their body fat percentage is and the higher their amount of fat-free mass shows.

We love the infrared sauna at WhittleStrength and highly recommend it to clients as it can be a great recovery tool and potentially can expedite the fat loss process. Read more about the benefits of the infrared sauna!

January 1st, the time of year when people buy a new gym membership and aim to make it part of their lifestyle, or pay a high end dietician and promise to stick to their new meal plan. The time of year when people swear to give up drinking every night, give up smoking a pack a day, or even make the resolution to limit junk food or soda to 1x a week…but most people fail to stick to their New Year’s resolutions.