#979 Why Counting Calories Wrecks Your Metabolism (& What Actually Works) with Ben Azadi

Metabolic Freedom With Ben Azadi

Ben Azadi

Health & Fitness, Nutrition, Fitness, Alternative Health

4.8 • 946 Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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🔥 Main Takeaway: The common belief that calories in vs. calories out is the key to fat loss is not only flawed — it can destroy your metabolism. 💡 Key Highlights: Host shares his personal 80-pound fat loss journey after breaking free from the calorie deficit trap. The Lie: Counting calories works temporarily, but ultimately leads to hormonal imbalances, slowed metabolism, and weight regain. The Truth: Weight gain is not a calorie issue — it’s a hormone and inflammation issue. Metabolic health must come first. Get healthy to lose weight, not the other way around. Example: Biggest Loser contestants regained weight due to damaged hormones (ghrelin/leptin) post calorie-restriction. Practical Solutions: Cut carbs to <50g/day Follow the 2-2-2 rule for healthy fats Eliminate snacking Practice intermittent fasting (e.g., 18:6 window) Science-Backed Insight: Gut health and hormone balance play a bigger role than calorie math. Bonus: Free access to the Metabolic Freedom Course + interviews with Dr. Jason Fung, Dr. Daniel Pompa, Cynthia Thurlow & Megan Ramos when you order the book at http://www.metabolicfreedombook.com 🎁 📚 Purchase Ben's new book Metabolic Freedom today to receive immediate access to a FREE course on metabolism with exclusive interviews from Gary Brecka, Dr Daniel Pompa, Dr Jason Fung, Megan Ramos, Cynthia Thurlow & more. CLICK HERE: https://www.ketokamp.com/free-course 🔎 Find all of the Metabolic Freedom Sponsorship deals and coupon codes here: https://www.ketokamp.com/sponsorship-deals

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0:00.0	You have a weight symptom. Your body has interference. You have too much inflammation. Your
0:05.4	hormones are out of balance. That's the cause of the weight gain. Simply cutting calories
0:11.2	just to lose weight tackles the symptom does not ever get to the cause. There are numerous
0:17.6	studies that back this up. And I put them all in my book, Metabolic
0:20.9	Freedom, The Biggest Loser, for example.
0:23.0	How many of you have watched or heard of that TV show, The Biggest Loser?
0:26.2	Well, they have these morbidly obese contestants.
0:29.1	They put on a calorie deficit, extreme exercise, cutting their calories, and what happened?
0:34.2	They all lost weight.
0:35.3	They lost a ton of weight.
0:36.5	At the end of the season,
0:37.7	they celebrated them in that final episode. But what we don't see is what happened after the show
0:43.4	ended. 90% plus of the contestants gained all of their weight back after the show was over.
0:49.4	And a portion of them gained even more weight back before they even started the show.
0:54.7	The studies even show their hunger hormone ghrelin was through the roof, so they were hungrier.
1:00.8	And their leptin hormone, which is their fat-burning hormone that tells you put down the
1:04.7	fork, stop eating, plummeted.
1:07.0	They slowed down their metabolism.
1:08.7	They wreck their hormones.
1:10.0	You see, that's why there's never
1:12.0	a biggest loser reunion show. Take, for example, 800 calories from processed carbohydrates,
1:19.4	let's say Skittles, Snickers, soda. And then let's compare that to the same amount of calories,
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