Successful weight loss takes programming, not willpower. Important note: I revamped this article in July 2022. You can read the new and improved version here.
“How can I stay full on my diet?” In this article, I am going to do a deep dive into this topic. First of all, a hard pill to swallow: Tips can help make you feel full for longer, but they will not completely stop the hunger. The thing is, being hungry is your body’s natural response to a caloric deficit. When there isn’t enough energy coming in, the body triggers the release of hunger hormones, which in turn generate a desire for food. Your body is trying to keep you alive. This simply happens to be very inconvenient when you are trying to stick to a fat loss diet. So being hungry is an expected consequence of dieting, not the end of the world. If you understand that some hunger is part of the process and that food will always be there, dealing with it mentally can become much easier. That said, there are indeed food choices we can make and behaviours we can adapt in order to reduce the discomfort of an empty belly. Let’s get into them.
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By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail. In my article on how to design your own diet, I outlined the steps to calculating the caloric deficit one may need as a starting point for their fat loss diet.
In this week’s piece, I aim to talk about reverse dieting, a strategy that originally became popular among bodybuilders following a physique competition. Now reverse dieting is also recognised as a helpful method to bring calories back to maintenance after a fat loss phase. Furthermore, it can potentially aid in producing further fat loss in the future. Does any of the scenarios above resonate with you? Then reverse dieting might be a good fit. Sorry, there’s no magic bullet. You gotta eat healthy and live healthy to be healthy and look healthy. End of story. What’s the best diet? If you have read my content for any length of time, you might remember that, in simple terms, a good diet to gain muscle involves a caloric surplus, whereas a good diet to lose fat involves a caloric deficit.
Any diet can be great as long as it accomplishes either task, depending on your goal. A more effective question would be: What’s the best diet for you? In this article, I am going to outline some benefits and downsides of three of the current most popular dieting approaches, so that, if you are considering any of these, you can make an informed decision. The dieting strategies I will touch upon include:
I would like to clarify that perhaps none of these methods will be appropriate for you in the long term. In fact, I would rarely implement them with my own clients. However, these diet trends still exist, and I thought that writing this post instead of ignoring their popularity might help people realise that none of these are “special” or in any way superior to others. When it comes to a long-term way of eating, these are signs that the particular diet you are thinking of will work for you:
To eat is necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art. Updated in September 2023.
In my previous article, I outlined the basics of flexible dieting and focused on one approach that I believe to be a stepping stone to more complex ways of flexible dieting: counting calories and macros. In this piece, I want to cover some guidelines on how to design a diet for either fat loss or muscle gain, including a proposed diet duration, macros and calories calculations, and how to transition away from dieting. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. Last summer, I went on a fat loss diet and described my experience in three articles. In the post about my approach to nutrition for fat loss, I talked about the mistakes I made in the process.
At the time of writing, my intention was to document that experiment so I could go back to it one day and use what I learnt from it for myself and in my coaching practice. Almost a year later today, my approach would be completely different. So I decided to write today’s article to share six mistakes you could make during a fat loss phase and how to avoid them. |
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