Hey guys, what's up? Happy Friday. Just a quick little plug before we get started. Today is the last

day that you can enroll in the May shred. So sign up ends at 6 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. And I know

I mentioned this last week, but this is the last shred until August. So if you're wanting to

shred with me, I highly

recommend jumping in this session. I will have everything linked in the description for you guys.

And on to today's topic for the podcast, we are going to talk about three ways that you can

create a calorie deficit. So we know that a calorie deficit is what is needed for weight loss.

And this is when you are at the amount of calories that it takes to maintain your body weight.

This is essentially when you are taking in less than that.

So you are creating an energy deficit and this is how you lose weight.

So the first way that you can create

a calorie deficit is through food intake. So it's simply eating less. And there's a few different

ways that you can approach this. So even if you're someone that does not track calories,

macros, you don't track anything like that at all. Just simply knowing the amount of food

that you're eating now in terms of like the number of meals or if you're, maybe you're having

three meals and two snacks, you could literally just remove one of the snacks and you're creating

a deficit from what you're used to eating.

People will often implement intermittent fasting and create a calorie deficit just because

they're removing breakfast essentially and they are shortening their eating window.

So when they do that and they're cutting out breakfast or know, breakfast or that first meal of the day,

they're creating a calorie deficit, even if they're not tracking calories. So again, you can

essentially create a deficit for yourself, even if you're not used to tracking food, just by

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