2950: How to Lose Belly Fat (Why Eating Less Isn't Working)
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2950: How to Lose Belly Fat (Why Eating Less Isn't Working)

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 21, 202629 min
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something that's crazy. This number should stop you in your tracks. They did a controlled study. Cutting sleep to four hours a night for two weeks raised belly fat by 9% and the deep visceral fat around the organs by 11%. Look, for a lot of women, belly fat is not a calorie problem and here's what we're gonna do.

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We're gonna break it all down for you right now. It's super frustrating. What's going on, why isn't anything happening? And this is unfortunately more common than you would think. Again, we have callers like this all the time. And when they call them, they're desperate because they don't know what lever to pull.

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I think this is so common. And I think there's two groups that get split that this happens to. Group one, who's been doing that, who's just frustrated and trying and ready to give up because it is just so much. They're so low calorie. And then we have the other group, which we call cortisol junkies,

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