E195 - Why Eating Less Is Making You Fatter

The Upgrade w/ Ben Craughwell · Mar 13, 2026 · 9m

Most high performing executives assume the solution to stubborn body fat is simple. Eat less.

So they cut calories again. Skip meals. Add more cardio. Push harder.

And the scale stops moving.

Or worse. They start gaining fat while eating less than ever.

This is the exact trap that keeps busy executives stuck in the same frustrating plateau for years.

In this episode Ben breaks down why aggressive dieting backfires, why your metabolism adapts faster than you think, and how constantly eating less slowly turns your body into a fat storing machine.

You’ll learn why the typical “eat less move…