Every body is different, and understanding your metabolism is key.
What’s most important is finding an approach that fits your lifestyle.
Whether it’s using fasting or eating smaller meals more often, balancing indulgence with healthy choices using the 80/20 rule, or alternating high and low calorie days, there’s no right or wrong.
It’s all about applying what you learn and fine-tuning through trial and error to find what is best for you.
As long as you meet your total calorie needs, it doesn’t matter whether you have 2 or 6 meals, fast or don’t fast, eat clean or enjoy takeout.
What counts is...
Staying within your calorie target in a way that works for you.
The key is knowing what works best for you. 🎯
Take Sarah for example:
BELOW ARE ALL THE WAYS SARAH CAN HIT HER TARGET 🎯
As long as Sarah hits her Calorie/Protein needs, the results will the the same.
IMPORTANT
IMPORTANT
Things such as energy levels, gut health, hormones, concentration and other factors will be effected with quality & type of food being consumed.
This is strictly speaking for caloric balance and the 3 specific outcomes:
1. CALORIE DEFICIT
(more calories/energy burnt than consumed)
2. MAINTENANCE
(the same calories/energy consumed as burnt)
3. CALORIE SURPLUS
(more calories/energy consumed than burnt)
Sarah can also increase her TDEE (total daily energy expenditure) to eat more and still create the same deficit to lose 0.5/week
FOR EXAMPLE
OR...
The principles above NEVER CHANGE.
It's about knowing how your body works, creating a lifestyle using the fat loss principles, to get results you keep.