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Low Carb. Low Fat. Atkins. Paleo. Vegan. Apple A Day!
With so many different diets out there, how is it possible to know the best one for weight loss?
Well… there is something that every single one of these diets has it common. A shared principle.
The PriNciple
Calorie Deficit - You create a calorie deficit by Consuming Less Calories (Eating and Drinking) than you expend (Moving) throughout a given duration of time.
Anybody in the history of life who has ever achieved weight loss has done so by creating a deficit of calories. By either consuming less calories or burning more.
Sounds simple right? Yes & No.
Although the principle in itself is simple. The methods of achieving that principle that have been presented to us as consumers have caused a lot of complication!
diet industry scams
Between YOU and the PRINCIPLE of weight loss stands a never ending list of diets, companies and influencers / people all trying to profit. This collective group of people & entities forms the ‘diet industry’
The Diet Industry have:
Taken the principle of a calorie deficit.
Packaged it up in different complicated ways.
Sold it to profit on people’s vulnerability.
Let’s imagine you are in the diet industry.
If you were trying to make as much money as possible, from taking people who are overweight and helping them to lose weight… would it be a good idea to give them the knowledge that will help them do that at no extra expense and for the rest of their lives?
No, because that doesn’t create a consistent stream of income for you.
Wouldn’t it be more clever to take an overweight person. Give them a complicated system that achieved the principle of a calorie deficit. Charge them for it. Get them to lose weight. Let them ‘go it alone’ with no real understanding of sustainable weight loss. Let them FAIL. Repeat the process again and again to make as much money as possible?
From a business standpoint, very clever. Ethically… disgusting!
Why am I telling you this? Because if you buy into the ‘scientific’ claims of the diet industry as truth, without stopping to think about whether or not it truly is. You’ll forever be trapped in the yo-yo dieting cycle.
So the question is:
‘how can I select the best method of creating a calorie deficit?’
Now we’re getting somewhere. But the real question is: How Can I select the best method of creating a calorie deficit… FOR ME!
The key concept here is individualism. We have different:
Circumstances
Preferences
Backgrounds
Finances
Limitations
So why should we all expect to use the same diet? One Size Does Not Fit All!
For me, working with many different types of clients in my gym, the real art of coaching is to take an exercise and be able to tweak it to each person for the same desired outcome. That can often make an exercise look very different from person to person.
It’s the same with constructing a diet. There needs to be a few basic principles in place. But you need to make plenty of individual tweaks, to make the diet appropriate to the person!
These individual tweaks need to be made with a view to…
SUSTAINABILITY
Despite the ‘scientific benefits’ that many diets will claim…. No benefits will come from a diet that you can’t stick to.
“Compliance is the Science”
So, when making dietary decisions and creating eating habits. It MUST be done with a view to sustainability.
You should only start a diet that you could maintain for the next 5, 10, 20, 30 years! Even Forever!
Anything less would be to settle for temporary results.
The message
Calorie Deficit = Weight Loss
Don’t buy in to Diet Industry Propaganda!
Individualism is key… one size does not fit all
Compliance is the Science
Harry Morris