There is no “best diet”

If there is one thing you can understand about the diet industry, let it be this: there is no best diet, and every single diet achieves fat loss by putting you in an energy deficit.

What the heck is an energy deficit?

Let’s use money as an analogy because I find so many parallels with nutrition and finance! Imagine your body as a bank account, and calories are like money. You have two sides to your account:

• Income (Calories In):
  • This is the food you eat and the drinks you consume. Every time you eat a meal or snack, you're depositing calories into your account.
• Expenditure (Calories Out):
  • This is the energy your body uses for daily activities, like walking, talking, and even sleeping. It's also the energy you burn during exercise.

Now, here's where the calorie deficit comes in:

• Calorie Deficit: A calorie deficit is when you spend (burn) more calories than you deposit (eat).

The space between what you took in and what you burned is where the fat loss magic happens, OVER TIME!! Just like we gain weight when we TAKE IN more then we BURN slowly over time, weight loss takes time and consistency in an energy deficit. 

So it begs the question for many of you, why didn't “insert any diet” work for you? Because you could not keep yourself in an energy deficit with that diet method.

Why does that happen though? Many reasons!

• Poor weekend nutrition habits, you basically wipe out all the work you did during the week every single weekend.
• Your diet does not quantify intake, ie “eating clean.” So even though you were eating more whole foods you just are not eating in an energy deficit. You can eat clean and still not get yourself into an energy deficit without quantifying your calories some way or another.
• You are under-reporting your intake, maybe a lot of licks, bites, and tastes are sneaking into your day and you are eating more then you think. OR  you are not weighing and tracking with a scale so again you may be eating “better” but it's just not a deficit.
• You are “adapted” to lower calories. Your metabolism is very efficient at getting by with low calories due to many years of dieting and poor habits. This makes it very hard for you to find the calorie range where you deficit is and even hard to stick to it long enough to get the body to respond.

This is why I use macronutrient tracking, (really even just protein and total calories) with my clients because in order to get yourself into an energy deficit, you have to have a good understanding of what you are taking in for calories. Otherwise you are just shooting in the dark.

Plus tracking is beyond educational, and will teach you more about nutrition and portions than any other method!

Education = long term results

Preserving muscle = long term results

Working with me you will get both!

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