2950: How to Lose Belly Fat (Why Eating Less Isn't Working)
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Why isn’t eating less helping me lose belly fat?
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Here's something that's crazy. This number should stop you in your tracks. They did a controlled study. Cutting sleep to four hours a night for two weeks raised belly fat by 9% and the deep visceral fat around the organs by 11%. Look, for a lot of women, belly fat is not a calorie problem. And here's what we're gonna do. We're gonna break it all down for you right now. It's super frustrating. What's going on? Why isn't anything happening? And this is unfortunately, more common than you would think. Again, we have callers like this all the time. And when they call in, they're desperate because they don't know what lever to
pull. I think this is so common. And I think there's two groups that get split that this happens to. Group one, who's been doing that, who's just... frustrated and trying and ready to give up because it is just so much, they're so low calorie. And then we have the other group, which we call cortisol junkies, where are fooled into thinking that this is working or it's a good idea, even though they're not seeing the results from it, they get this feeling of euphoria or this cortisol spike after their workout and it feels good. And so trying to convince that person that This approach is not a good strategy and it's the reason why you haven't reached your goals. And so I find that there's two different clients that I'm speaking to that are stuck in this spot.
Either the one that is ready to give up because they've been doing this for a long time, no results, or two, the one who's been doing it for a while but is addicted to the feeling they get because they get this huge cortisol dump that makes them feel in the immediate after a workout feel good but still not seeing results. Cortisol is an
energy hormone. So people don't realize that. And it does give you energy in the short term. I'm glad you brought up cortisol because that gets blamed for so many different things, including belly fat. And it definitely plays a role. But here's what happens. Women who are doing this, who are under eating, over training, beating themselves up, it must be cortisol. So they go buy a supplement. This supplement promises... to reduce cortisol, and it does nothing for them. And so they spend money on thing after thing to try to reduce cortisol or work with their cortisol. Meanwhile, they're doing everything else to cause these problems, under-eat and over-train. Yeah,
they're working so hard, and the frustration is real because, I mean, usually for everything else, if you're going to work this hard, you're going to see some results from that. But there's nowhere to go when you're that low-calorie.
The other things that you'll see people do with this is they'll buy a waist trainer, which I cannot— hate these things more.
I
absolutely cannot. First off, waist trainers, you're essentially wearing a girdle around your waist and it atrophies, in other words, weakens the muscles around your core. And so whatever decrease in waist size you get from a waist trainer is because you've made the muscles around your lumbar spine, around your trunk, around your core, smaller and weaker. Setting yourself up for potential injury.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
Why isn’t eating less helping me lose belly fat?
0:00–4:06
2
What does the sleep‑deprivation study reveal about belly and visceral fat?
4:06–8:03
3
Who are the two groups of people stuck in the low‑calorie, high‑stress cycle?
8:03–12:16
4
Why do waist trainers and ab‑circuits actually make belly fat worse?
12:16–15:38
5
How does cortisol affect fat storage and why do supplements fail?
15:38–19:06
6
What is the correct order of operations to lose belly fat without spot‑reduction?
19:06–22:07
7
How can I build strength and muscle to boost metabolism and burn belly fat?
22:07–25:37
8
How long should I expect to see visible belly‑fat loss results?
25:37–29:14
Speakers
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