You’ve been lied to… countless amounts of misinformation, fake news, gaslighting, and deceit. People and corporations have manipulated you into believing they have your best interest at heart, but only compound your suffering and misery with every opportunity as they steal your hard earned cash. Worse still, you’ve lied to yourself. Every morning you promise yourself change. You swear that you will no longer listen to the voices leading you astray, yet every afternoon you’re back at the same table. It’s relentless and never ending - a dull, monotonous existence, that you only want to end. If you’ve struggled with weight loss, this has most likely been your journey. Discussed in this episode. The difficult truth. When calories are the cause, but not the cure. You care too much about losing weight, including my top tips for caring less. Set point theory. Counting calories. Eating “healthy”. Links to further resources: CDC stats on obesity: https://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/adult.html - Study on how reducing calorie intake doesn’t always promote weight loss: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5639963/ - Study on how stress influences weight loss: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/obr.12603 - Blog on how stress kills your cycling performance: https://coachpav.com/cycling-mentality/how-stress-destroys-cycling-performance/ - Info on set point theory: https://www.bidmc.org/about-bidmc/wellness-insights/nutrition/week-one-the-science-of-set-point - Information on the term ‘healthy’: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Protected_term