Dr. Mary Claire Haver

That's how I like to think about it.

So pick your side of politics, whatever that is.

Everyone talks about cardio for weight loss, but all I talk about is weightlifting.

Okay.

Your basal metabolic rate.

all right, your BMR, how many calories you burn at rest, okay, not moving, is determined by how much muscle you have.

So we have a body scanner in our clinic that measures muscle mass.

It measures your body fat.

It tells you if the fat is visceral or subcutaneous.

It tells you how much body water you have, if you're dehydrated or, you know.

So that number on the scale is so much more than just how much fat you have, which is all women tend to think about, right?

Your muscles weigh, your bones weigh.

You want heavy muscles and you want heavy bones.

You wanna gain weight.

You wanna gain weight in those areas, okay?

But everyone's fixated on fat.

So calories are important.

No one can deny that, right?

You eat in a consistent caloric excess, you are probably gonna store fat.

That's just how biology works.