Episode 306 : When trying to lose weight, do you add extra calories to account for exercise?

When trying to lose weight, do you add extra calories to account for exercise? For some context,

I'm 22 year old female trying to lose weight. I downloaded MyFitnessPal and entered in my stats. I was given 1750 calories to work with and my macros I split to 40/30/30 for Carbs/Protein/Fat.

Double Check Chelsea

Trouble Understanding My TDEE

After an extended break how long will it take me to get back to my normal strength levels? Any advice?

Returning From a 2 Month Break

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Episode 305 : Does a Ketogenic Diet Help or Hurt Your Endurance?

This isn’t a must read episode for The Art and Science of Low Carbohydrate Performance, it’s more of a review of a research article the book cited. That’s right there was a citation that I thought was questionable so I tracked down the original study and decided to critically analyze it to see if what the authors were saying was true and if this was a legitimate study that I could take seriously. The line in the book that got me questioning the citation was this, that when elite cyclist were not ketogenic adapted they were able to pedal a bike at over 900 kcal an hour for 147 minutes and when they were ketogenic adapted they were able to ride on average for 151 minutes and that this was not statistically significant, to which I said neh, neh that is a 4 minute difference which I know doesn't sound like a lot but if these elite cyclists were in a race that would mean if the keto group were in first then the rest would be somewhere between 1.5 and 2km behind them which in the elite cycling world is a huge difference, so different the T.V crews wouldn’t even be following the non keto adapted group, so I wanted to dive in and see what this study was all about.

The Ketogenic Study

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Episode 307: The human metabolic response to chronic ketosis without caloric restriction, the blood work episode

In last weeks show I reviewed a study about the effects of a ketogenic diet on endurance athletes and whether or not it had an effect on their ability to cycle for extended periods of time, at around 60 to 65% of their maximum capacity, if you’re interested in hearing about my thoughts and the results of that study I definitely recommend you check out episode 305 and for interests sake the name of the study is: The human metabolic response to chronic ketosis without caloric restriction: preservation of submaximal exercise capability with reduced carbohydrate oxidation, and don’t worry if you didn’t get that I have a link to it in the show notes. I’m not going to cover the author's conclusions or the results if the study today because I did that last week, but I did find some very interesting things with respect to blood work and basic physiology that I think many of you will find interesting and we’re going to cover those today, but since reading findings can be a little bit boring we’re going to do something different, I’m going to ask you a question, you’re going to answer it and then I’m going to go through what the study says the answer is.

The Ketogenic Study