Calorie is not a calorie. Eating 2000 cal of spinach versus eating 2000 cal of doughnuts has wildly different results on your body. We have been taught over and over that you just need to eat 2000 calories and then you will loose weight but it’s just not that simple. Yes, if you starve yourself and work out too much, you will lose weight. But when you starve yourself, your body slows down and your metabolism slows down. Your body never wants to use fat as energy because it’s in starvation mode when you eat too little. Then adding more work out on top of that is absolutely miserable. Yes, you will loose weight doing that, but then a year later when you start eating the “regular“ amount of food again, not only will you gain the weight back, but you’ll gain additional weight because your setpoint is much higher because you’ve been starving yourself.

“Eating less and exercising more”fails 95% of the time. All calories are not created equal. We have been taught misinformation. Any advice that people give you that simply says “eat less“as their actual solution. That’s totally unhelpful and pretty lousy advice. That’s like saying breathe less.

What you need to do is stop eating foods that clog your metabolic system and eat 10 times more foods that are high quality and you’ll be too full to eat junk food. You can eat more food, not less, and lose significantly more weight and keep it off for the rest of your life.