A Weight Loss Quiz

How well do you know the principles of weight loss?

Today I thought it would be fun to have a little True/False weight loss quiz, so you can test your knowledge! Follow along with Marchelle as I pose some obvious and not so obvious questions.

I think most of those of you who have been listening to the podcast will do pretty well, but who knows? There may be some surprises!!

Whether you're a weight loss novice or an expert, I bet there will be something here even YOU don't know - we won't tell if you miss one though ;)


Episode Highlights:

(04:23) My typical recommendation is that you can safely lose about a pound of fat every week if you're nourishing your body really well and you are not losing a bunch of muscle mass in the process. But you're not going to have any idea by using your bathroom scale. The truth is you can't depend on your bathroom scale to give you any accurate information about fat loss.

(15:09) When it comes to Keto, you want to have what's called a “well-formulated ketogenic plan.” What that means is a lot of people hear about keto and they're like “oh yeah, all I have to do is just eat meat and cheese”, and they just eat all kinds of processed keto bars and they're basically still eating processed crap food. That'll work for fat loss, but you're learning nothing about how to nourish your body! If you are going to do a keto lifestyle and you're going to bring your carbs down to less than 20 net carbs a day, you'll want to nourish your body with really good high quality protein, lots of nourishing vegetables, healthy fats, all of that.

(24:34) Obesity is a chronic, progressive, relapsing disease. The brain pathways that signal hunger and satiety, which means a sense of fullness or a sense of satisfaction, that sense of “I’m done” – those brain pathways are not working correctly. So the brain thinks you're starving and it's driving you to eat. For most people there's also an element of addiction in which the pleasure pathways of the brain have been hijacked by processed foods. So we're getting big, huge dopamine hits from the processed foods that we eat.