Fitness Black Book interviewed a man named Brad Pilon today and posted something very important which I think everyone should consider.
Over the last few decades we’ve seen a range of different diet ideas become very popular. You could say we are currently in the low carb era, where people believe eating low carbs is the key to losing body fat.
While this DOES work, you must remember that many years ago, people believed that low fat was the key to losing fat. And that ALSO worked. In between these periods there has been many other fads such as starving yourself altogether and alternating carbohydrate consumption every day, all of which have still achieved the goal of fat loss.
So if they all work, why does the popular mainstream belief of what works keep changing?
Well if you’re a person who has already achieved your fitness goals, you know very well that it is actually calories in versus calories out that matters, not these little tips and tricks that you read in niche diet books.
But why doesn’t the public realise this? Well perhaps it’s in the way we teach them about calories in versus calories out.
We generally tell people that it’s about how many calories you eat in one day, versus the calories you burn in one day. We’re teaching them to think in periods of 24 hours.
Now what if we were to teach people to think in terms of 7 days. What if they knew that their ability to lose weight was dependent on a 7 day calorie deficit, not a 1 day calorie deficit?
There are many benefits to thinking this way, but most importantly, the ability to plan well ahead of time.
We all know how hard it can be to organise meals a few hours in advance, especially when something comes up at work or you run out of a certain food that was required for your meal that night.
If people had 2 or 3 days to plan in advance, organising what you eat would be so much easier! Knowing what you can and can’t eat would be easier too! You’d have time to really work these things out.
Perhaps this is something you can teach people about next time someones asks how to lose weight.
If you’d like to know more about Brad Pilon’s own diet program, check out Eat Stop Eat. WARNING: Lots of writing, but the gist of what his diet is about can be found in the first 2 sales pages.
To read the original Brad Pilon interview, check out Fitness Black Book.
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