A Fitness Trainer Shares 9 Reasons You're Struggling to Lose Weight (and How to Fix It!)

If you're kicking butt in the gym for an hour, but sitting on your butt the rest of the day, then you're probably not burning as many calories as you think. NEAT stands for nonexercise activity thermogenesis, and it's the calories you burn moving around throughout the day (not through exercise). Increasing NEAT will increase your metabolic rate, burning more daily calories, which will help you lose weight.