Everyone should enjoy a fun and successful fat loss diet at least once in life.
Pay no heed to these goblins who portray fat loss as miserable and futile. They only know slave morality. But you and I are not slaves. We are human beings!
In fact, burning fat is just as hedonic as piling it on, with the subtle difference that when binging, joy comes first and discomfort after, whereas on a diet the sequence is reversed.
How, then, do we set ourselves up for success, and what can we expect?
First, on a calorie cut, you are “eating” yourself. That means your enjoyment scales with the quality and cleanliness of your own stored fat.
Did you bulk up on species-appropriate food? To that extent, you are going to feel amazing. If you loaded seed oils and goyslop, less so.
Second, your strength foundation sets the caliber
of your nozzle. Statistically average? You are melting Madame Tussaud’s with a zippo. A few months training with barbells? Flamethrower tank.
If you are short on these prerequisites, use this year to enhance them. Cut in 2027.
If yours check out, know that the hardest part of the diet is the first day. The best move, then, is not to realize you are on the first day.
Don’t tell anybody you are going on a diet, not even yourself. Doing that immediately makes it ten times harder to follow through.
Instead, wait until you wake up sluggish and bloated from one too many lobster rolls, and naturally eat fewer calories. Day one, done!
On the second day, press that momentum with low carb, low fat, high protein, high probiotics. A couple cans of salmon with sauerkraut, for example, plus some berries for dessert.
On day three, your microbiome has already shifted and your food preferences are pivoting. You have warmed up the metabolic grill on which you will cook ~2 pounds of your own fat each week.
From then until several weeks in, you will be more energized than before. Your athletic performance improves. Your silhouette starts scalloping and your shoulders start striating. This is the happy-making time.
We will address Phase II and Phase III in a future post.
So! Are you getting after it?