Nutrition Quarterly Fall 2022

Fighting the Final Five How to Shed Those Last Pounds & Reach Your Goal It feels like you’ve been at it forever. You’ve done all the right things; changed your diet, your portions, your protein/carb ratios, your meal frequency, your timing, your workouts…everything that your doctor/ trainer/health coach told you to do, but you just can’t seem to get those final few pounds to go away. There are some complicated forces at work here. The more lean muscle that your body has, as compared to the rest of your body composition, the more your metabolism and basal metabolic rate (the number of calories that your body would burn if you stayed in bed all day) go up. But, for every pound that you lose, your metabolism slows by about 20 calories per day, because it takes less energy to move By Owen Rothstein, Foodie & Nutrition Enthusiast Featured Articles Nutrition Quarterly · Series 3 – Volume 4 7