Dr. Layne Norton

But your skeletal muscle is your biggest overall lean tissue and I would argue your biggest organ.

And so its effect, having an extra 10 pounds of skeletal muscle, because it's so much, it does have a profound effect on your energy expenditure overall.

So when they looked in the study, when they standardized for lean mass, they saw basically no difference, no statistical difference in anybody's metabolic rates or their total daily energy expenditure.

And when they tracked their intake, what they found was they reported 1,200 calories a day, but on average, they were consuming about just over 1,800.

And they also over-reported their physical activity by 47%.

Now, I think a lot of people will look at that and go, so that – when I present that data, a lot of people get really upset because no one likes being called a liar.

I don't think people are lying.

I don't think that's what it is.

I think we look at ourselves with rose colored glasses and we look at serving sizes and we we tend to like just give ourselves a little more grace than we probably should.

Right.

And even yesterday I did like a day of eating while I was traveling.

And I showed – like I went out to lunch.

I got a salad, grilled chicken.

I said, can you put the dressing on the side?

Put the cheese on the side, right?

And I just used a little bit of cheese.

I used the dressing and – but still like after I added everything up, I'm like, there's over 30 grams of fat in the salad.

A lot of you guys would have the salad and think, oh, this is low calorie, right?

No, the salad was 600 calories.

And so –