Dieting: You Got It All Wrong!

You got it all wrong.

Some people who lose weight actually gain back the weight later. Oftentimes, this is due to inconsistent habits: they give up on eating healthy, exercising, or both. They didn't maintain their level of health and self-improvement, it became worse, just like their physique. They didn't maintain their diet.

We often blame this tendency to give up the unsustainable nature of weight-loss diets on eating salads and tomatoes night and day and drinking tons of water. I can't blame you for this. Some people really build unsustainable diets, but if you follow the steps in this article, you'll learn to build a healthy and sustainable diet that will not only help you achieve your fitness goals but which you will be able to sustain for life.

The thing is, you need a mindset change about dieting, and you need to change your diet too.

The mindset change

This mindset change is really simple. Usually, when people start dieting, they buy a lot of healthy foods, prepare them, eat them, and think of this whole journey as only this: a period. They think it's only a period of their life which, in a few months or years, will be changing. To them, dieting is not stable in time: they assume directly that they're going to stop one day.

And you see, if you're dieting on 1300 calories, starving yourself, and eating only blank salad, I totally understand you thinking it's only a period. However, this is not sustainable, and it's unhealthy, first off because us humans aren't supposed to live on salad only, and secondly because it's not a sustainable way of living. You need to transition to a more sustainable diet using the tricks in this course, or going intense on dieting and then slowly getting sustainable because we don't want you to gain back everything.

We need to make sure that dieting and eating healthy becomes a sustainable habit. By the way, I haven't told you this in the introduction, but dieting isn't necessarily "eating less and better for weight loss". I see "dieting" as eating a diet, whether it's meat and greens for weight loss, the carnivore diet, or your casual weak American citizen diet, whatever.

Think of your diet, and eating healthy, not only as 1) a life-long habit that you're going to sustain, but 2) your "baseline" diet. The goal here is to see eating healthy not as a period, or as an "effort", but as just your baseline level of dieting. It's the base of your diet.

In other words, instead of having the baseline of your diet set on unhealthy foods, let's set it on healthy foods. Therefore, whatever your goals are: weight loss, weight maintenance, or weight gain, or simply being healthy, eating healthy foods is the baseline of your diet. It's not a period, an effort, or something that changes: it's the base, from which the tower of health is built.

For example, I only eat 100% natural foods most days, or very low-processed foods that are healthy, such as butter for example which is processed because you don't find butter in nature. And, I eat the same ingredients every day, or most days.

And, you might say "Wait but it's extreme, why are you dieting for so long?". Well, I'm not dieting, I'm actually eating my day-to-day diet, it's my baseline, it's the base foods that I will eat and sustain for a long, long, long time. The ingredients I eat, I eat them every day, and I love that because I don't have to take brain space to decide what to eat, and I can just cook and eat, but I also love the food I'm eating in the vast majority.

So, before focusing on reducing calories or something, assume that a natural diet composed of 100% or at least 80-90% natural foods is now your baseline diet. Then, decide on the ingredients you preferably want to eat and that you pretty much like based on your goals, and finally, find or make dishes that you could eat every single day or find slight variations of these same dishes for the days you want to change.

For example, I know that for the rest of my life, I can eat beef at lunch every single day. Some days I'm eager to, some days I don't care, but it's never a burden. I love beef, and so I have eaten beef every single day at lunch for almost a year now. Am I depressed? No. Am I bored? No. Am I tired of it? No.

Sure, if the food you eat every day isn't tasty or good, then it's going to be difficult, that's why I asked you to choose foods that you actually enjoy eating which are 100% natural. For example, you could eat apples until the end of your life, it's delicious.

However, just know that occasional "diet breaks" are going to occur. Sometimes you're going to eat a burger or a pizza or go to a restaurant or whatever! It's totally normal and these should stay exceptions. I prefer not to plan these occasional "diet breaks", and therefore I keep eating healthy until one day something happens and I eat at the restaurant. I rarely plan my "diet breaks", simply because I don't feel the need to since my diet is my baseline. I'm therefore not craving unhealthy foods all day every day.

Fundamentally, I think if people focused on building sustainable habits instead of blindly and stupidly eating less or better for only a short period of time in their lives to reach a physical or mental goal, we, and, more specifically, they, would be much better off.

Yes, sometimes having a short period of extreme dieting could be good to make lots of progress but always focus on sustainability first and consistency. Make a natural diet that you can sustain for life and that becomes your "baseline" diet, you might be "dieting" to other people's eyes, but it's their problem if they're not able to discipline their daily life.

Seriously, having this idea of "it's my baseline diet" makes it so much easier and reassuring because you don't have to worry about anything. It frees mental space, I don't need to change diets every few months or I don't have to struggle deciding which meal to have or struggle between extreme weight-loss periods and then gaining back all the weight.

Your diet should not take much brain space, it should be simple and straightforward. Also, if one day for example instead of your potatoes you eat rice once, then it's not a big deal, you just modified your diet a bit but it's still good and natural. Your diet is ALL NATURAL FOODS that are healthy for you and a minimum of processed foods. Therefore, it's sustainable in the long run without even trying.

Once the plane takes off, it flies beautifully.

A good diet is composed of good ingredients, and this is what we're going to see now, so as to help you choose the ingredients that could be good for your body and mind.

Eat like a superhuman

I suggest eating like a superhuman. I mean, maybe not a superhuman, but try to eat like our ancestors. Think about animal products (beef, pork, chicken, eggs, and fish), healthy carb sources (potatoes, sweet potatoes, and not preferably but still possible rice), and healthy fat sources (olive oil, butter, and some cheese even tho you should be careful about it for your hormones especially if stored in plastic).

What I suggest is to eat two to three meals a day, composed of at least one source of protein, one source of carbs, and one source of fat. Try to get less carbs and more protein and healthy fats (2g of protein per kg of body weight, and a reasonable amount of healthy fats for a healthy body).

But just focus on natural healthy foods that feel healthy when ingested and just good for you. For example, when I eat beef or eggs I feel that it's actually good for my body, it's not making me bloated, it's tasty, and it's full of good nutrients: how can this possibly be bad?

Also, be careful about the food-medical industry. They like to say one thing one day and the other the next, they like to blame butter for health problems instead of blaming the high levels of artificial estrogenic and microplastics found in most of their "healthy dairy Greek yogurt!". It's like the doctors telling you eating beef every day or eggs every day is bad, whilst they themselves are fat. A fat doctor, who hasn't informed himself about the medical world since his past studies in some medical university, tells you it's unhealthy to eat eggs. EGGS, the most healthy, nutrient-dense, natural food you can find. EGGS. It's always good to listen to your doctor but the lesson is this: take everything with a grain of salt.

The human irony is incredible. So, eat like a superhuman. Eat healthy foods, that feel good in your stomach and that are full of nutrients. I suggest also getting a good amount of fiber from fruits and healthy carb sources. But overall, let your diet be naturally simple: choose a few sources of carbs you could eat, a few protein sources (for me it's beef and eggs, I don't eat others regularly), and some fat sources (butter and olive oil, cashew nuts, eggs and almonds for example).

If you want to know a list of ingredients I recommend, here it is. I suggest not buying those foods packaged in plastic to avoid any estrogenic substances and microplastics leaching into your food, it could be the source of a grave problem. So, the ingredients are beef, eggs, chicken, tuna (not in cans please), sardines (not in cans please), salmon, and any other fish (be careful about fishes fished in lakes, a lot of them are highly estrogenic due to the spectacular amount of artificial estrogens and chemicals in lakes), potatoes, sweet potatoes, bananas, apples, mango, pears, blueberries, and any other fruit, broccoli, spinach, tomatoes and any other vegetables, cheese (not in plastic preferably and not everyday too), and glass-bottled natural, grass-fed milk if you want (please, no plastic bottle! Milk in a plastic bottle is so estrogenic you can't imagine how problematic it is for you and me).

Personally, I would sacrifice dairy altogether and opt for a calcium supplement to fight any deficiency. I only eat cheese from time to time. The best solution would be to still consume dairy but grass-fed, packaged in glass or in paper or journal paper. For example, going to a local farmer or to his small, local store in a village to buy grass-fed cow's milk or goat cheese is good.

Look at your physique instead of the weight

Finally, if you're trying to lose or gain weight or even maintain weight, I suggest actually being careful about weight. Sure, having weight goals and achieving them is great: but always look at the transformation through your physique. Sometimes, you might stay at 80kg whilst losing fat and building muscle.

You lose fat, so you should lose weight, but you replace the weight that was lost with muscle: so the weight is not moving. Therefore, if you only focus on the progress on the scale, you might be confused or think you're doing something wrong, whilst in reality, you might actually build muscle whilst losing fat.

Therefore, always take the weight and the scale into consideration, but also look at your physique. If you use both tools at your disposal, it can prove to be highly valuable for your fitness and health journey.

Conclusion

You need to change your mindset from "I'm dieting for a specific period of time" to "This is my baseline diet", making your healthy, 80-100% natural diet the diet that you eat every single day without any problem whatsoever.

Now sure, you will have occasional periods of intense dieting especially if you need very low calories to lose weight or high calories to gain weight, and you will have days where you break your diet, but overall, your "healthy diet" should not be a "period of your life" where you make progress, it should be your "baseline diet" for life, so you always make progress.

The goal here really is to change your mindset. Focus on eating natural ingredients, especially animal products because our bodies aren't made to eat plants. We're way better off if we only eat meat than if we only eat salad.

Finally, I wanted to thank you for reading. As always, you're the one who makes this possible, so really, I appreciate it.

I'll see you next time. Hope this helped.

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