@bigbrandoncarter: They are lying to you about weight loss. Cutting 500 calories is way too easy to mess up. Food labels are allowed to be wrong by 20 percent. You can also eat hundreds of hidden calories just from sauces you forgot to count. Here is what you actually need to do for real results: ⚖️ Take your body weight in pounds and multiply it by 10. That is your daily calorie goal. 🥩 Eat one gram of protein for every pound you weigh right now. Do not use your goal weight. Protein is a total cheat code for your body. It has a high thermogenic effect, which means it burns a lot of energy just being digested. 🔥 Your body burns 20 to 30 percent of the calories from protein just trying to break it down. 🔥 Protein burns twice as many calories to digest as carbs do. 🔥 Protein burns three times as many calories to digest as fat does. Eating protein is not just for building muscle. It forces your body to burn more calories all day long.