Hi guys, happy Friday. Welcome back. Before we get started, just another quick reminder that the April DIY shred is open for enrollment. We start on Monday, so I'll keep the enrollment open through the weekend. But if you want your plan on time, I would say join. This is coming out on Friday. So join at some point on Friday.

So you get your plan before Monday start date.

But this one I did add the two bonus office hours with it.

Normally the DIY does not have office hours with me,

but I've got two bonus office hours added to this one.

So everything will be linked in the description for you guys now on to today's topic

which is why it is so hard to lose the last like five to ten pounds I hear this all

a time or I get asked this all the time.

Why is it so hard to lose that last five or ten pounds?

There's a couple of reasons, and we're going to dive into those today.

I really think this one is going to hit home for a lot of people, so I'm excited to

get into it, and I'm going to try to not lose you in the weeds and try to keep it very,

like, high level.

So, okay, two big things when we're talking about, or there's like two big factors,

I guess I should say, as to why the last little bit, like five to 10 pounds is so hard to

lose.

But when we're talking about the start of a diet, your total daily energy expenditure,

so your TDE or your maintenance calories, the amount of calories to maintain your body weight

at the start of your diet. Say you lose 10 pounds.

Your maintenance calories will no longer be the same as they were at the start of your diet because you now have a smaller body to maintain.

So as you lose body weight, fat loss will get harder the longer that you diet and the less that you

like when you weigh less. You also expend fewer calories to exercise when you weigh less.

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