Weight Loss

Simple mechanics extrapolated out to become one of the most over complicated process and misinformation sources of the 21st century.

You say weight loss they’ll say fat loss.

You say reduce calories they’ll said just eat healthier.

You say healthier they’ll say just eat whole foods while ignoring you’re 50kg overweight and to be honest just losing the excess will drastically improve health markers, metabolic function and hormone regulation. Regardless of what you eat. But eating more nutritious dense foods will be a bonus The point is everyone trying to out position themselves from someone else regardless if it’s compounding the confusion. It’s common to see multiple people arguing their perspective while all are correct.

The worst ones are the focusing in the minor ones. Usually due to them echoing something they read or heard and not having an accredited formal education repeat without understanding or context.

Example. Fix your hormones before a calorie deficit. This is coming from the position that hormones are the reason you can’t lose weight. Albeit dysfunctional hormones can make it harder to achieve a deficit its more re slight shifts in energy requirements and increased hunger contributing to excess calorie intake. Hormones cannot create mass and body fat cannot be created from thin air.

Actually losing the excess weight in most cases can contribute to fixing issues re hormones. Especially when issues were bought on by excess weight gain and not existing prior. So focusing on achieving a calorie deficit should be at No 1. Any additional serious medical conditions related to hormones go see an endocrinologist. Not some wellness hormone balancing coach. As they’re completely self titled BS coaches that are absolutely not qualified to be talking hormones.

The best advice is the boring advice as that doesn’t come with hype and is harder to sell. That's why people make things up loosely tying to out of context science and lots of anecdotes where the actual weight loss causation has been ignored or misrepresented.

What's that advice?

Your primary focus is to achieve a calorie deficit. What achieving that looks like can vary from person to person due to a variety of reasons. Ability, current health status, support, education etc.

BUT you want to lose excess body fat. Your no1 focus is a deficit.

While achieving this an additional focus on macronutrients would be a further benefit towards health. Right amount of protein, carbs and fats.

Then nutritional content and fibre. Hydration, sleep, resistance training, cardiovascular health etc

The main area people go wrong at is missing the calorie deficit.

Missing the wood for the trees.

You can focus on whole foods and not be in a deficit. You can focus on more protein. You can focus on exercise. You can focus on macronutrients.

But Maintaining that excess body fat still increases all cause mortality.

Prioritise the focus on a deficit alongside altering your eating habits over time to achieve all the other components.

An approach could be to aim at eating within a calorie range, this will not be an instant achievement for most. Then pick one other area to focus on, like enough protein. Once you become consistent in this area start adding another area, like enough vegetables per day. Or vice versa.

This makes your primary focus your primary goal. Fat loss. While aiming to change your accumulation of bad habits into good ones. As consistent good habits are more sustainable over time than diets and weird wellness coach protocols.

Apologies if this is not some hyped up gaslighting bio hack with a secret unique program to sell you. But my main focus is to help you focus on reality and live a normal long healthy life while working alongside you to find your way of achieving your goals. As mentioned achieving that looks different from person to person and my job is to find out what works for you and keep building on that.