#79 - 8 Fitness Lies Told to Women Over 40

The first lie, you just need to eat less and move more.

The thing is, while that is true for a lot of people, the word that I don't like in that sentence is just.

It's like you only need to eat less and move more.

You just need to eat less and move more.

That is an oversimplification because, yeah, you may get somebody who does need to eat fewer calories and get more steps each day, work out more frequently, of course.

But you don't just tell them to eat less and move more.

I guess, first of all, well, I'm sure you do too, coach.

I like to ask questions.

I like to find out why.

Why isn't this person eating an appropriate amount of calories? Why aren't they moving more? Maybe they have got a really stressful job and they have kids and their sleep is there for shit.

So their hunger hormones are all out of whack.

And so they just go into like eat more without really knowing it.

And of course they're going to move less.

Because they're so busy, because they're so stressed.

Maybe somebody lives in the suburbs and they work from home and they live in one of those weird areas where there are no sidewalks.

And so going out to walk is a challenge.

And of course, we don't just say, oh, that's fine then.

Don't worry about it.

We then need to come up with ways of overcoming those challenges, of course.

But it is so much more nuanced than you just got to eat less and move more.

Also, eat less of what? Move more in what kind of way? There are so many things that are missing from this that I don't like that sentence at all.

Coach, what are your thoughts? If it was that easy, everyone would be doing

it.

Right? Like we wouldn't have jobs.

Oh, I just need to move more and eat less.