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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What is destructive is impatience, haste, expecting too much too fast. In fitness, expectations can make or break your motivation.
When my clients want to embark on a fat loss or muscle-building diet, I like to give them an overview of the changes they might experience, especially in the first few weeks. When something unexpected happens, or when they encounter their first bump in the road, they feel much more confident if I told them beforehand that this was a possibility. In this article, I’m going to cover what could happen in your first few weeks of dieting for fat loss. 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. Doctors won’t make you healthy. Nutritionists won’t make you slim. Teachers won’t make you smart. Gurus won’t make you calm. Mentors won’t make you rich. Trainers won’t make you fit. Ultimately, you have to take responsibility. The end of January marked my fifth month working at a commercial gym. Having had the opportunity to talk to a variety of people, I have also had the chance to discover what confuses them about exercise and nutrition.
The problem is the amount of conflicting information in the media, on social media platforms, or packaged as books and newspaper articles by so-called “experts” who have some sort of self-interested agenda. Bombarded with contrasting messages like “Sugar addiction will kill you”, “Fat is bad”, and “Carbs are the devil”, how are you supposed to know what to do? This article is a small collection of honest messages about training and nutrition designed to help you make sense of the madness. 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:
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