Chapter 13 · Ruby Cherie
The Importance of Daily Movement (NEAT)
January 24, 2025
And there was someone who was eating in a deficit and she was meticulous with everything. She was like, I'm eating literally at 72 calories. I'm tracking everything. I know how to track blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, but I'm not losing weight. And she was really overweight. And I'm just like, okay, cool. So among all of these hormone coaches above, I'm going to give you your answer. How many steps do you do a day? her answer i sometimes get 2 000 but i sit on my butt most of the day i'm like well there's your answer it's not your deficit that's a great place to start is maybe we go to 5 000 steps and see what happens maybe we increase no but everyone they were like three this was like a really popular facebook group there were 300 and something likes on someone saying i'm a i'm a holistic coach and i do this gut testing and blah blah blah bro how many fucking steps do you do Like literally, I can tell you right now that people need to stop looking for the most convoluted, complex solution to their problems. Most of the time, it's going to be a one or a handful of very simple things to do. Right. And until you do those simple things, don't go to the complex. You may very well have a gut issue And I not going to say you don like let say you know and you know you seen our intake forms like we ask about We have two different gut digestive analysis questionnaires We do We do testing when it appropriate but most of the stuff that happening you can fix a lot of it with zero testing and then throw the testing in when there's a hurdle that's just not, that's not being fixed by the normal, easy things. You go to, there's like Zoe finishing up her clinical nutrition degree. She's actually, I think Tuesday or Wednesday is her last day next week. It's just, I'm gobsmacked at some of the things that these people say, like, did you guys even go to the same university she did? And