You don’t have a metabolism problem, you have a movement problem🏃🏼♀️ ...or lack thereof.
Losing weight vs. gaining weight, in reality always comes down to calories in vs. calories out. It’s a number’s game through and through.
Eat less + move more = weight loss⬇️ Eat more + move less = weight gain⬆️
It always boils down to how many calories you eat as opposed to how many calories you’ve burned which is the difference between your weight loss, weight gain and plateauing.
Let’s say in an average week you sleep for 8 hours a night and workout for an hour 4x a week. 8x7=56+4=60
That’s only 60 hours accounted for out of the 168 we get each week! ‼️ So what can we do with the remaining 108 to seriously impact our transformation? It’s this little thing called NEAT 🤓 (and it is super neat)
NEAT=Non Exercise Activity Thermogenesis, aka the calories you burn outside of exercise.
NEAT + BMR (metabolism) = how much you can eat daily and maintain your current weight
Before you think your metabolism is in the toilet, let’s look at your NEAT👉🏼
You sit. In the car, at your desk, at the dinner table, on the couch and then lay down and go to bed, your metabolism isn’t your issue. Your NEAT is just non existent.
It’s so easy to increase your NEAT by hundreds if not THOUSANDS of calories a day just by being intentional about it. Being mindful and choosing to go the extra mile. (literally)
Want to beef up your NEAT? Here’s some ideas: 💥taking a call? walk and talk
💥park in the back of the lot
💥take the stairs
💥walk to the mailbox
💥take 10 minute walk breaks throughout the day
💥use a farther bathroom
💥go inside the coffee shop to order instead of going through the drive through
So before you decide your metabolism is trash, take a good look at what you’re doing in your 108 🙇🏼♀️
You don’t have a metabolism problem, you have a movement problem🏃🏼♀️ ...or lack thereof.