What Is the One Thing All Diets Have in Common?

Most diets work by cutting calories, but under eating can slow metabolism, causing plateaus—or even weight regain when old eating habits return. 

So why do most diets fail after 3 weeks?

Most likely, the diet has tricked you into eliminating one of the essential food groups (carbs or fats) or eating too few calories, leaving you starving and craving the foods you've been avoiding. This yoyo effect on your metabolism causes your fat cells to multiply after you stop a diet, making you gain more weight than you had in the first place.

So, what should you do? 

To lose unwanted weight or body fat, you must first tune out the noise and focus on eating whole foods that come without packaging. Think back to your grandma’s cooking, harvesting crops, and maintaining family gardens—these are the foods our bodies were made to digest and metabolize. A cookie here and there, or a slice of your grandma’s favorite cake, was never the problem!

What I recommend: 

First: Make sure you are eating ENOUGH! A simple way to calculate this is by starting with protein. Aim to eat your GOAL WEIGHT in grams of protein per day.

Second: Pair it with a whole-food carb. 

Third: Add in a little fat. Not too much fat, because fats have twice as many calories per gram as carbs or protein. Crazy, huh?! 

Fourth: Make snacks protein-rich. For example, jerky, Greek yogurt, or cottage cheese… you get the picture! 

Do this week after week, and without restricting yourself, you’ll be well on your way to repairing your metabolism—while regaining that confident feeling you may have started to doubt was even possible!