Welcome back to episode 389 of The Paleo View! (0:40)
Stacy is human again and excited to dive into this week's topic.
Sarah is feeling very fortunate to have maintained her health during this nasty cold and flu season.
Stacy is thrilled that her recovery was a quick one.
Matt graduated from Postal Academy first in his class and Stacy is feeling so proud of him.
It has been a new world for Stacy and the boys as they all adjust to Matt working out of the house.
Sarah and Stacy took a brief walk down memory lane, remembering the moments from their childhood when their mothers would break out into songs.
 
What Inspired this Show
This week's episode was inspired by a listener's question and came from a woman who attended one of Sarah's workshops last year.
It is a follow-up question from the healthy weight-loss session that Sarah hosted.
The entire session is available as an online course on Sarah's site.
It has a focus on not just how to lose weight, but how to lose weight in a healthy way so that it is easy to maintain that loss.
The science tells us that every weight loss diet is effective.
The trick is that maintaining that weight loss for the vast majority of these diets is flawed in that they are designed to eventually make us fail.
Most weight-loss diets will result in two things.
One is the reduction of our basil metabolic rate, which means we need fewer calories and burn fewer calories at rest.
And two, ghrelin (our hunger hormone) is increasing.
So we need fewer calories to keep going on our weight-loss journey, but we are getting hungrier and hungrier.
Instinct kicks in and you can't muscle through that situation forever.
This is when most people end up yo-yoing.
Sarah's online course was designed to bust a lot of diet myths, as well as set the groundwork for understanding how to set smart goals and structure diet and lifestyle and lose weight in a sustainable way.
This question from Lauren is a follow-up question to that information.
 
Joovv
Before Stacy and Sarah jump into the science and the show, they want to take a moment to thank this week's sponsor, Joovv.
Both Stacy and Sarah love their red light therapy, and they have been a long-time sponsor of the show.
Sarah actually wrote a blog post about the role that red light therapy can have on weight loss.
There is some preliminary evidence that the infrared wavelengths that Joovv provides can help regulate hormones.
The red wavelengths can help to liberate fat from fat cells.
There are also inflammatory benefits, skin health benefits, and so much more.
Joovv is another tool in our big toolbox in terms of promoting healthy weight loss.
 
Q&A
Lauren says (14:10):
I went to The Paleo Mom's workshop in February 2019 and it was lovely.
At the workshop, we talked about working out and hunger hormones.
When we talk about exercise and weight loss, is there science behind high-intensity workouts that you burn calories throughout the day (after the workout) if the workout is intense enough?
OR do you simply burn the calories DURING the workout and it stops there?
I’ve read that there isn’t much science behind this theory (but I think it may be a hypothesis?!) 
Sarah is very excited to answer this question because there is a lot of science on this.
A hypothesis is not just a guess.
You look at what is currently known and either work to explain what is happening, or expand what is known by predicting what will happen if the conditions right.
Sarah broke down the difference between a hypothesis and a theory.
There are a couple of studies now that show that if you achieve the same caloric deficit over time, we feel hungrier and that hunger magnifies over time.
Whereas when you achieve that same level of caloric deficit through exercise, our hunger is the same as if we didn't have a caloric deficit.
This is a very important thing to know in terms of weight loss.
Diet is important from a lean muscle mass preservation effect and from a nutrients for supporting metabolism as we are b