Why Diets Fail

Do you know why diets fail?

Because dieting sucks

First of all, the percentage of diets that fail within the first few weeks is more than 80%

And secondly, 97% of those that do succeed, end up gaining all of the weight back, plus more within 3 years.

Putting your body through the traumatic stress of deprivation, starvation, and outright misery is nothing short of madness.

Seems like every online health experts, shady weight loss guru’s and average steroid meathead or stick figure Barbie will tell you that strict dieting is a must in order to achieve immaculate health and a body that the great god Hercules would envy.

Well, I’m here to call bulls**t on that.

Now I’m not exactly shredded to the core.

What I am is a guy who through a little planning and research has managed to carve out a pretty decent physique while still eating ALL of the foods I love.

And I’m going to break down the exact step by step process that you can personally use to not only lose weight but maintain that weight loss for years to come.

Diets can fail for many reasons.

Unsustainable fad diets, lack of motivation even changes in your life such as getting a new job can change your daily habits and put your weight loss on hold.

But you know what the #1 reason why so many people fail to lose weight and keep it off.

Lack of knowledge.

Blindly following the advice of a diet you know nothing about teaches you nothing about the processes that happen in your body that make weight loss happen.

But by understanding the thermodynamics of how your body uses and stores energy to either gain, lose or maintain weight, will help you lose weight and keep of permanently.

How To Stop Failing At Weight Loss

How do we do this?

By counting calories.

Now before you throw a fit and hurl your laptop (or smartphone) at the wall just take a second to hear me out.

Counting calories has been proven time and time again to help more people lose weight and keep it off for good.

Think about it.

Without knowing exactly how many calories you’re eating, and how many calories you’re burning. How can you possibly know if your weight is heading in the right direction?

Now, I’m not talking about being so obsessive that you take out your scales in the middle of a working lunch to weight out a banana.

Even to me, that’s f*****g insane.

What I’m talking about is using your body’s metrics (height, weight, age, gender) to work out how many calories your body burns on a daily basis.

And then using that figure to come up with a strategic plan based around the foods you already eat to quickly and consistently lose weight.

Easy right?

Step 1 – Working Out Your BMR

So here’s what you need to do first…

What we are going to be doing first is working out your basal metabolic rate or BMR for short.

In simple terms, your BMR is the number of calories your body naturally burns at rest.

This means that if you did nothing but lay in bed all day for 24 hours straight this is the number of calories your body would burn.

Now I’m not going to go over the exact calculations for this because quite frankly I’m lazy and writing down all the figures will disrupt the flow of what we’re doing here.

So what I want you to do is click here and enter your details into the BMR calculator provided and click submit.

This will give you the number of calories your body burns EVERY DAY at rest.

Got it?

Good.

Step 2 – Working Out Your Total Daily Energy Expenditure

Now what you need to do is multiply your BMR by one of the activity factors below, using the Activity Level Definition as your guide

Activity Factor	Activity Level	Activity Level Definition
1.2	Sedentary	Little or no exercise. Desk Job
1.375	Light Activity	Light exercise or sport. 1-3 days a week
1.55	Moderate Activity	Moderate exercise or sport. 3-5 days a week
1.725	Very Active	Hard exercise or sport. 6-7 days a week
1.9	Extremely Active	Hard daily exercise or sport and physical job

This will give you a pretty accurate idea of how many calories your body is burning in total based on your daily habits, job, exercise, and a few other factors.

Also known as your total daily energy expenditure (TDEE).

Step 3 – Small Changes That Make A Big Difference

In step 3 we are going to be taking a look at your current diet and making a few small adjustments.

Now I should make this clear from the start when I say a few SMALL adjustments. I’m making the assumption that your diet is fairly standard.

For example, you eat 3 meals a day, you treat yourself every now and then, you have the odd takeaway.

If your constantly scoffing down supersized big mac’s, large stuffed crust pizza and a whole box of Oreo’s on a daily basis then there’s not a lot I can do for you.

I can only help you if your willing to help yourself.

I’m not a magician.

Anyway, what I want you to do now (or when you have a spare 10 minutes) is to write a quick list of some of the more common foods you eat throughout the week.

If you like to cook, take a look at some of the ingredients you are using and make a note of how many calories are in those foods.

You may find that what you think is a fairly healthy low-calorie meal is actually accounting for a large amount of the calories you consume throughout the day

Once you know the calories involved in what your eating you can then adjust accordingly to fit within your calorie needs.

A Real Life Example

I like to eat out at subway at least once or twice a week.

Here in England, we have something called a subway melt.

A foot long turkey, ham and streaky bacon sub, all topped off with melted cheese, light mayonnaise and salad with a Pepsi to wash it all down.

This all totals up to a whopping 1,023 calories.

This is what I USED to eat by the way.

Now that I’m calorie freak, when I go to subway I get a Turkey, ham topped off with HALF light mayonnaise, salad, and a DIET Pepsi

Here are the changes I made to my order:

No bacon: – 80 calories
No cheese: – 80 calories
Half light mayonnaise: – 50 calories
Regular to Diet Pepsi: – 173 calories

My new calorie total: 640 Calories

Calories saved: 383 Calories

Now, this isn’t a life-changing alteration I’ve made.

A little bacon and cheese along with the mental sugar rush from my old Pepsi habit has not deprived me of eating what I want.

I still get to eat subway 1-2 times a week without feeling guilty because I know my numbers. And I know that as long as I stick within the rules of eating less than my body burns, I will lose weight. GUARANTEED!

Conclusion

It can be a tedious task at first but once you know your numbers and you dial them into your daily routine, the rest will just fall into place.

It’s a scientific fact that if you eat less then you burn you WILL lose weight.

FACT

And this is just the basics.

There are still a few other things you need to consider such as paying attention to your macro-nutrients and eating enough protein.

But as long as you stay consistent with the numbers then you’ve already won.

Do you count calories? Let me know about your success or failures in the comments below…

P.S. just a brief mention, I know some of you reading this want results yesterday. If that’s the case then I highly recommend you take a look at the 2-week diet. It’s no walk in the park by any means. But if your desperate, and you can commit for 2 weeks. You’re going to lose anywhere from 8-16 lbs in just 2 weeks.

Get details here…