I’ve been getting a very similar question/story lately. It goes something like this.
I’ve been eating paleo for months, doing high intensity exercise, doing everything right, and I still can’t drop the weight.
They often add fatigue into the equation as well. That statement in itself could mean a lot of things but for the sake of this post, I want to focus on the high intensity exercise piece.
I LOVE high intensity exercise. I do high intensity workouts in a CrossFit manner. But exercise is actually one of the poorest interventions for you to lose weight. Why? Because most measure exercise in terms of calorie expenditure. This mind set is when high intensity harms as it leaves you in the mental state of more it better. I don’t really want to get into the calorie-in, calorie-out falsehood of activity and weight. Instead, I’m going to focus on the bigger picture.
