A closer look
Hitting a brutal weight loss plateau usually means your metabolic flexibility is completely broken. Healthy cells should effortlessly toggle between burning the toast you ate for breakfast and burning your waistline fat. By analyzing the exact ratio of oxygen you inhale versus the carbon dioxide you exhale, indirect calorimetry catches metabolic dysfunction red-handed. It reveals if your stressed-out cells have lost the enzymatic ability to tap into lipid stores, forcing you to constantly crave carbs just to stay awake.
