In the past decade, I have had the privilege of meeting thousands of people during 1:1 sessions..
I have to tell you: I was really surprised to meet people who were 40-50 kg overweight and who were telling me they hadn’t had any sugar or bread for years.
I was surprised to hear the following many times:
“I have friends who lost 40 kg after eliminating sweets and bread from their diet; I haven’t been eating any of it for 10 years and I’m still fat. I don’t know what I’m doing wrong, I’m desperate”.
I used to put on a big smile and ask: “Do you like cheese?”
And this way I arrived to the food category that brings strong people to their knees.
I can tell you with all my heart that I love cheese and all dairy products.
I love all cheese types: sheep cheese, cow feta cheese, but especially French cheese.
I love them all.
I even love the 0% fat cow cheese, the one that has been used in diets since time immemorial.
If you love dairy and you have some weight to lose, let me give you a bit of perspective when it comes to this type of food.
Let’s agree on something right off the bat.
Clinical studies and WHO recommendations all converge to the clear, unequivocal conclusion:
Dairy and cheese are perfectly healthy and adequate for human consumption, for children, adults but also for the elderly.
You will read below selected paragraphs from the “Cheese and dairy” chapter of my future book.
The reason why I am asking you not to have cheese in the house is that quality cheese (the one we love) contains a lot of fat:
I am talking feta, mascarpone, pressed cheese, mature cheeses like cheddar, parmesan, Brie, Blue Cheese, Camembert or Mozzarella.
Most cheeses come with 300-450 calories per 100 grams.
So 200 grams of quality cheese has the same calorie equivalent to 100 grams of bacon or half a pack of 82% fat butter.
I believe that if you have a few dozens of kilograms to lose, then it makes no sense for you to eat 100 grams of bacon or half a pack of butter.
You do realize that it makes no sense for you to eat bacon when you have your own bacon on you, right?
Now, don’t get me wrong. I didn’t say butter or bacon would be harmful or anything. Not by a long shot.
They are perfectly healthy foods, just that they are calorie bombs and they don’t serve our purpose of losing and maintaining weight.
In order for you to better understand: real butter is the 82% fat one. Meaning 100 grams of butter come with a standard of 82 grams of fat.
And here we are at the core of the problem: quality cheeses come on average with a 30-35% fat content, some of them even 40% fat content.
In practice, eating 200 grams of cheese is like eating half a pack of butter from the point of view of the fat content.
If you’ll eat 100 grams of cheese per day, that is the equivalent of gaining 1 kilogram a month. Simply from eating all that fat.
Do you realize that if you eat a mere 100 grams of fatty cheese a day you will basically lose 1 kilogram less from your fat reserves every month?
If you are a female and have 20 kg to lose, a good, clean progress would be losing 2 kilograms a month on average.
Think about this: you are eating absolutely perfectly, no starches, no bread, no sweets, no wine. But alongside that food you squeeze in 200 grams of 30-40% fat cheese daily.
Cumulatively speaking, eating 200 grams of the finest cheese every day would amount to 2 kilograms of fat eaten. By consequence, most likely, zero kilograms of weight lost.
Just think how easy and handy it is eating 100-150 grams of cheese per day.
Do you realize the cumulative effect this habit will have over a month? Or one year?
It is highly probable that you have 30-40 kilograms extra and highly likely to discover that your problem does not revolve around eating sweets and bread, skipping breakfast, eating late in the evening or the lack of exercise.
The problem is the cheese you have every day.
You will surely ask me whether cheeses with 0% fat are “allowed”.
If you are aiming for stellar progress, my firm recommendation is to stay away from those as well.
As you can see from my content on Facebook and Instagram, I nonetheless eat cheese every day.
You must understand that it’s a whole different ball game when you’re an active male of 1.85 m height and 90 kg weight with developed muscles.
It’s very different when you’re a female of 1.60 m height who hasn’t really done any constant exercise.
The difference in daily calorie / energy requirements are huge. I can easily eat 2500 calories a day and not gain weight.
But a woman who is static can have a daily energy requirement of maximum 1500 calories.
Still, I am constantly polishing the Body Engineering method to make it as permissive as possible.
I’m always looking for solutions so that our members can enjoy cheese every day.
I will present below a perspective that will allow you to see cheese for what it really is: dessert.
I will show you WHAT cheese to choose and HOW to include them in your diet so you can lose weight and maintain your figure for the rest of your life.
Press the button below, keep reading and you will discover all the types of cheese I eat and recommend in my program, as well as the adequate quantities for an effective weightloss process.
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