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Helping busy parents over 40 finally get control of their weight, improve their energy, confidence and health, all without crash diets, workouts they hate, food guilt or injections!

17/09/2026

Huge Reasons Parents In Their 40s Gain Weight

When your kids were toddlers, you were constantly moving. Chasing them around, picking them up, running after them - none of it felt like exercise but it all counted.

Now they’re older. They come home from school, go straight to their room or straight out with their friends, and they don’t really need you in the same way. Which means your evenings look very different.

You’re at home because you can’t leave them, but they don’t need you anywhere near as much. So you’re on the sofa, half watching Netflix, scrolling TikTok, and with very easy access to food that’s been designed to be as tasty and easy to eat as possible.

Three hours pass. You’ve barely moved. You’ve eaten more than you planned.

Do that most evenings and combine it with a desk job where you’re getting a fraction of the steps you used to - and there’s your “broken metabolism”.

You’re moving significantly less than you were ten years ago and eating more calories than you realise, usually in those quiet evening hours when the kids have disappeared and the boredom sets in.

For the full episode - EP020 “Broken Metabolism - Myth Or The Actual Reason You Can’t Lose Weight?” - search The Lester Kitching Show on Spotify, Apple, or YouTube.

Want more help? Request your free copy of my book - Fat Loss For The Real World - Simply DM “BOOK” and it’s yours.

17/09/2026

Modern Desk Jobs Impact On Weight Gain

Step counts are significantly lower than they were ten years ago, and a big part of that is how much working patterns have changed.

Think about what a commute into the office actually involves. Getting to the car, walking from where you park to the office, a couple of flights of stairs, back and forth to the water machine, to the toilet, to a colleague’s desk, then reversing the whole thing on the way home. None of it feels like exercise. But it all adds up.

For a lot of people working from home now, all of that has gone. You roll out of bed, walk to the desk, and the furthest you travel all day is to the kitchen and back.

Add in cars, electric scooters, electric bikes - all the things that make life easier and more convenient - and the average person is moving significantly less than previous generations did just going about their normal day.

This isn’t about blaming anyone for how they live. It’s just worth understanding that if your weight has crept up and you can’t work out why, a gradual collapse in daily movement over the last few years is a very likely part of the answer.

For the full episode - EP020 “Broken Metabolism - Myth Or The Actual Reason You Can’t Lose Weight?” - search The Lester Kitching Show on Spotify, Apple, or YouTube.

Want more help? Request your free copy of my book - Fat Loss For The Real World - Simply DM “BOOK” and it’s yours.

17/09/2026

Metabolism Boosting Supplements

No supplement is going to fix a bad diet. If you’re eating too much, a metabolism booster isn’t the answer - getting the calories down is.

Beyond that, most metabolism-boosting supplements are largely stimulant-based, largely unregulated, and largely unproven beyond studies funded by the companies selling them (which is probably the least reliable source of evidence you could find on whether something works).

A few years ago there were genuine cases of people dying from fat burning supplements which is crazy to think about, but it’s the reality of what happens when products are unregulated and marketed to people who are desperate for something to work.

If a supplement does anything for most people, it’s probably placebo - and as we covered in EP013, the placebo effect is real and can genuinely change behaviour. But that’s a very expensive and potentially risky way to get yourself to eat better and move more.

Save the money. Find a diet that gets your calories right and doesn’t feel like hard work, and find a way to make exercise something that you don’t hate instead..

For the full episode - EP020 “Broken Metabolism - Myth Or The Actual Reason You Can’t Lose Weight?” - search The Lester Kitching Show on Spotify, Apple, or YouTube.

Want more help? Request your free copy of my book - Fat Loss For The Real World - Simply DM “BOOK” and it’s yours.

17/09/2026

Fast To Boost Your Metabolism?

Whether you eat 2 meals a day or 6 meals a day largely doesn’t matter for fat loss.

The reason fasting works for some people and small frequent meals works for others isn’t because of some special metabolic effect - it’s because both approaches, done consistently, end up creating a calorie deficit.

One person eating 2 big meals a day naturally ends up at 2,000 calories. Another eating 6 smaller meals hits the same number. The deficit is the same. The results are the same.

Meal timing and frequency are just tools that help different people hit the same fundamental target in a way that suits their lifestyle, their hunger levels, and their schedule.

So if fasting works for you - great. If eating whenever you fancy works for you, as long as the calories stack up - also great. The best approach is the one that makes hitting a calorie deficit feel manageable and sustainable for you right now, and that might change over time as your life does.

Find what works for you. Don’t copy someone else’s meal timing because it worked for them.

For the full episode - EP020 “Broken Metabolism - Myth Or The Actual Reason You Can’t Lose Weight?” - search The Lester Kitching Show on Spotify, Apple, or YouTube.

Want more help? Request your free copy of my book - Fat Loss For The Real World - Simply DM “BOOK” and it’s yours.

17/09/2026

“Okay It’s Not My Metabolism... Now What?”

If it’s probably not your metabolism - and for most people it isn’t - then the more useful question is why are you eating more and moving less than you used to?

Not as a way to beat yourself up. Just as an honest audit. Start by looking at your typical week, and try to spot the habits that are costing you the most.

Is it the evenings where activity drops off completely? Or the weekends where eating goes off track? Or is it the days where stress is high and the drive-through becomes the default?

Find the biggest problem area first and work on that one thing before you add anything else. Get that working consistently, then look at the next one.

You don’t need to overhaul everything at once. You just need to identify where the most damage is happening in your week and start there.

For the full episode - EP020 “Broken Metabolism - Myth Or The Actual Reason You Can’t Lose Weight?” - search The Lester Kitching Show on Spotify, Apple, or YouTube.

Want more help? Request your free copy of my book - Fat Loss For The Real World - Simply DM “BOOK” and it’s yours.

17/09/2026

Doom Scrolling Stops Fat Loss?

As much as we all love to do it, staying up late doom scrolling on TikTok is going to make it much harder for you to lose fat.

And not just for the obvious reasons.

Yes, poor sleep makes it harder to get to the gym. Yes, it tanks your mood and leaves you more anxious, more stressed, and more likely to reach for food you weren’t planning on eating.

But there’s also research showing that the ratio of body fat to muscle mass lost during a fat loss phase changes depending on how much sleep you’re getting.

With good sleep - around eight hours - a higher percentage of what you lose is body fat. With poor sleep, that shifts. You might lose the same amount of weight on the scales, but more of it comes from muscle rather than fat, which means your shape, your tone, and how you actually look and feel in your clothes will be different.

If bedtime doom scrolling is cutting into your sleep, that could be a really easy fix that has a huge impact on your fat loss, as well as your mood and energy levels.

For the full episode - EP020 “Broken Metabolism - Myth Or The Actual Reason You Can’t Lose Weight?” - search The Lester Kitching Show on Spotify, Apple, or YouTube.

Want more help? Request your free copy of my book - Fat Loss For The Real World - Simply DM “BOOK” and it’s yours.

17/09/2026

How To Protect Your Metabolism As You Lose Weight

The biggest lever you have over your metabolism isn’t a supplement or adding a certain spice to your food - it’s muscle mass.

Your resting metabolic rate - the minimum calories your body burns just to function - is heavily influenced by how much muscle you carry. And that’s exactly why weight training matters so much during a fat loss phase.

Picture two versions of you, both losing three stone over six months. One does weight training two or three times a week alongside their diet. The other does cardio, or no exercise at all. The weight lost on the scales might be the same, but the rate of muscle mass lost along the way will be very different.

Weight training gives your body a reason to hold onto the muscle it already has, which keeps your metabolism working as efficiently as possible while you’re in a deficit.

And beyond your metabolism, it’s also what gives you the shape, the tone, and the definition that most people actually want when they say they want to lose weight. The arms that feel good in a t-shirt. The stomach that feels flat. The confidence to wear what you actually want to wear.

The scales might tell the same story in both universes. How you look and feel in them won’t.
For the full episode - EP020 “Broken Metabolism - Myth Or The Actual Reason You Can’t Lose Weight?” - search The Lester Kitching Show on Spotify, Apple, or YouTube.

Want more help? Request your free copy of my book - Fat Loss For The Real World - Simply DM “BOOK” and it’s yours.

17/09/2026

“Broken Metabolism” Limiting Belief

If you genuinely believe your metabolism is broken, you’re going into your fat loss journey with one hand tied behind your back before you’ve even started.

You want to lose the weight. You’ve got three stone to go. You’re sick and tired of where you’re at and you want this time to be different. But sitting underneath all of that is a belief - picked up from something you read online, something you were told, or a comment from a friend that stuck - that your metabolism is working against you and there’s not much you can do about it.

That belief is doing real damage because it undermines your motivation and your confidence and gives you a sense that you can’t win..

But the research actually shows that there is a very small decline in metabolism between the ages of 20 to 60 - nowhere near significant enough to explain the weight gain or the inability to lose weight that most people put down to a broken metabolism.

The more likely explanation is a gradual shift in activity levels, eating habits, and lifestyle over time. Which means it’s fixable.

Walking into your fat loss journey believing the problem is something you can’t change is one of the most damaging places to start. Getting that belief right changes everything that follows.

For the full episode - EP020 “Broken Metabolism - Myth Or The Actual Reason You Can’t Lose Weight?” - search The Lester Kitching Show on Spotify, Apple, or YouTube.

Want more help? Request your free copy of my book - Fat Loss For The Real World - Simply DM “BOOK” and it’s yours.

5K more for the Sands - baby loss charity 50K September Challenge - 45 done so far, with 27K to go (added an extra 22K f...
16/09/2026

5K more for the Sands - baby loss charity 50K September Challenge - 45 done so far, with 27K to go (added an extra 22K for hitting the £100 and £200 milestone).

The money raised goes towards funding live-saving research and helping parents whose babies are no longer with them get through this unimaginably difficult time.

We’ve raised over £211 so far, and at £300, I’ll add a third milestone challenge to get us as much money as possible.

To donate, go to LesterKitching.com/SANDS (this redirects you straight to the SANDS website).

Also, any ideas for the £300 milestone challenge - send me a DM.

14/09/2026

Me To Me - 9 months into my coaching business after leaving my safe 9-5

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