Yep, it takes a while to figure out where your calorie intake should be, and it changes over time.
But to be clear, in no way does that mean some people can’t lose weight with a calorie deficit. It means it’s complicated to find your deficit, and you won’t ever get nice linear progress. I think a lot of weight loss problems are because people get sold on diets and expect steady results. That’s not real.
This isn’t a diet. If someone wants to be fit, they need to learn to eat like a fit person because one day they’ll be a fit person and then they’ll have to maintain that. Forever. So no keto. No carnivore. No intermittent fasting (unless you really can do that forever. I’m going on 5 years). Just eat more fiber, less calorie dense things, and find things you like that are sustainable for you.
Sorry, just realized I’m ranting. This is one of those topics that gets me going because there’s an entire industry designed to make you lose weight, gain it all back, and suck the money out of your wallet in the process. It doesn’t need to be like that. It’s not that complicated. There’s no trick to it.
Yep, it takes a while to figure out where your calorie intake should be, and it changes over time.
But to be clear, in no way does that mean some people can’t lose weight with a calorie deficit. It means it’s complicated to find your deficit, and you won’t ever get nice linear progress. I think a lot of weight loss problems are because people get sold on diets and expect steady results. That’s not real.
This isn’t a diet. If someone wants to be fit, they need to learn to eat like a fit person because one day they’ll be a fit person and then they’ll have to maintain that. Forever. So no keto. No carnivore. No intermittent fasting (unless you really can do that forever. I’m going on 5 years). Just eat more fiber, less calorie dense things, and find things you like that are sustainable for you.
Sorry, just realized I’m ranting. This is one of those topics that gets me going because there’s an entire industry designed to make you lose weight, gain it all back, and suck the money out of your wallet in the process. It doesn’t need to be like that. It’s not that complicated. There’s no trick to it.
#mikeneedsaplan