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Podcast: The Brad Jensen Show
Episode: Diet Breaks vs Refeeds
Description: We all know to lose fat, you need to be in a caloric deficit over a long period of time. However, our bodies are engineered to make it difficult. Your body will adapt and slow fat loss in response to your self-imposed "famine". That adaptation can be as simple as unconsciously moving less from a lack of energy. But our hormones also adjust to slow fat loss. Leptin, the hormone that signals the brain that we are full, will decrease to keep the "eat more" switch flipped on. Ghrelin, the hormone that signals hun...