 Next question is from Andrew Beth. Are there any common situations where a caloric deficit would not result in weight loss? Yes, now here it is, ready? First of all, if you're in a calorie deficit, your body is making up for those calories by burning tissue. But how can you not lose weight from that happening? Gaining more water weight. This is where you may see your weight stay the same because you're holding more water even though you're losing body fat or even muscle. That being said, if you are in a deficit, your body has to make up the difference, okay? So let me explain this very simple science because I know there's people in the wellness space that deficits don't matter, which is not true. That's so false, it's ridiculous. This is like one law that you can't get around. It's literally a law of the universe where energy cannot get created nor destroyed. In other words, it gets transferred. We can't just create it out of nothing. Shit, if there was a way to do this, we would have infinite energy and become like interstellar being together. It would be awesome. Yeah, it doesn't work. So here's the deal. Let's say your body's burning 2,000 calories. So that's how many calories your body is burning right now, 2,000 and you take in 1,500. How did your body burn 2,000 if you only took in 1,500? It took it from itself. It burned its own tissue. Usually body fat can come from other tissues but it's usually body fat. So if you're in a calorie deficit, you will lose tissue. Your body is taking it from itself. But if the scale doesn't go down and you're like what's going on and you know for sure you're in a deficit, it's water. And this one really messes people up. I can't tell you how many times it would mess up clients of mine because they come back and be like, oh my God, I gained two pounds or three pounds or I lost three pounds. I ate like a crazy over the weekend and I lost three pounds. What does this mean? Or vice versa. And it's like, okay, let's give it a few weeks and see if it sticks because I don't know about you guys my body weight could fluctuate five pounds in one day just from water. So this was something I always knew but I didn't communicate it a lot until I went through those three years of competing and I had to track and measure and I was so diligent about everything so consistently and I saw, holy shit, how much? So I actually got to a place where I was fluctuating nine pounds in the night. So I would go, now mind you, I'm doing a gallon and a half to two gallons of water. You're a big dude, lots of muscle. Yeah, 230 pounds. So that's a lot for the average person but it is not that far off like three to five pounds the average person easily can fluctuate and that is a lot. Three to five pounds in a night north or south could really fuck somebody up. Totally. That's busting their ass on losing weight and then they get on the scale the next morning hoping that all that hard work they did in the last two days is gonna show and it goes up. Talk about really discouraging for somebody who's on a weight loss journey and then talk about what a terrible signal for them to be sent to then adjust what they're doing and this is why I became a thing that I started to communicate a lot about. People would, they would all of a sudden change their calories. Yes, and what does that mean? It's a fat. So then that person freaks out that day, they cut their calories even more so maybe reduce it another 500 when they didn't need to. They get on the treadmill now for an hour later on the day and they totally send their body a signal that they do not need to send and they just make it more difficult for themselves in the future. And so you gotta be careful of allowing a day or two of fluctuating, and then you add in things too, like when, you know, if you're on your period, that's gonna change. It's you add in a day where you just drank a little more water. You add in a day where you had saltier foods so you had higher sodium intake. Like all these things can make a difference on how much water you're stressed. You have a stressful day at work so your body starts to retain a little bit more water. So all these factors can manipulate how much water your body ends up holding in a day or not or not releasing. And a lot of times people allow that to dictate what they do nutritionally and exercise wise and then they just make it worse for themselves. Yeah, this is the number one reason why extremely low carb diets became so popular. It was not the only reason, but it's the number one reason because you see very fast initial weight gain with a low carb diet. You don't retain quite as much water when you take the carbs. Oh, right, okay. It's a lot. Every three grams of carbs that you intake your body holds on to three ounces of water. So you take somebody who's eating three, 400 grams of carbs every single day and do the math. You know how many ounces of water their body is not holding onto now? I'll easily if I cut my car, and I don't need a lot of carbs anyway, but if I cut my carbs, I'll easily lose eight pounds within a week on the scale. But I know it's water. I'm not burning eight pounds of body fat in a week. So it's definitely important to consider that. But again, deficit or surplus, me, by the way, when people say it doesn't matter, either A, they're totally negligent and ignorant and idiots, or B, they're confusing what may be happening because, yes, you can change how many calories your body burns, which then makes it no longer a deficit or no longer a surplus. And then they'll come across me like, no, calorie surplus or deficit doesn't matter because I ate the deficit and I haven't lost any weight while your body adjusted, it's burn. So again, the deficit or the surplus, that ultimately it will make or break whether or not you gain or lose weight. So what you're saying is we can't create energy from nothing until we get a Tesseract. Yeah, totally.