In obese or diabetic individuals with metabolic dysfunction, it is important to avoid a caloric surplus to prevent worsening the system's inability to use fuel.

“if I have somebody who's obese or somebody who's diabetic and they have a lot of extra body weight and their system is you know having a hard time metabolic I don't want to drive a surplus with them because if I drive a surplus with them I'm dumping fuel into a system that's having a hard time using the fuel”