Stop Eating LESS to Lose Fat After 40 (Do This Instead) | Ep 454

Stop Eating LESS to Lose Fat After 40 (Do This Instead) | Ep 454

Author: Philip Pape, Evidence-Based Nutrition Coach & Fat Loss Expert March 26, 2026 Duration: 34:26
You've been eating 1200 calories, working out, and the scale won't budge. The advice you keep getting is to eat even less, but that's the problem. If you're over 40 and stuck despite doing "everything right," your body is probably caught in the undereating trap. Chronic low-calorie dieting suppresses your metabolism, burns muscle instead of fat, and disrupts the hormones that control where you store fat and how you recover. The calorie deficit that worked at 30 stops working at 45...

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