Everything in Moderation

One of the biggest lies in the weight loss industry is that you have to eat a little bit of everything in order to lose weight.

You know what will happen if you believe this concept: at the next consultation with your nutritionist, you will get a food scale, free of charge 😅

✅ PRINT

As a nutritional specialist, all you have to do is strengthen this belief.

Then - what can be easier than having 20 pre-established menus and hitting the print button?

[Of course, these days there is a PDF version of those files.]

✅ RECURRING

Next, you need to add in the key phrase for securing a recurring customer:

“You have to come back next week to change the menu. Your body will get used to this diet and you will stop losing weight”.

You know those body builders eating rice and vegetables and lean meat 5 times a day, for years on end, right? They must be so stupid…

✅ THE FUN

The frustrating part is yet to come. You will get a default menu: 3 meals and 2 snacks with foods you MUST weigh and eat at a specific time. Every day.

✅ BUT YOU’RE NOT HUNGRY

Even if you’re not hungry (or you don’t like the foods you eat) you must eat. Because it’s written right there: at 10.30, you must have 74.5 grams of apples with a Wasa bar.

✍️ I never buy Wasa – an article on this coming soon.

✅ BUT YOU’RE HUNGRY

And when you are indeed hungry, guess what: you should eat very little. That’s what it says right there on the paper. On Thursday, at lunch you’ll have 125 grams of asparagus with 115 grams of salmon.

If you are in a meeting and you don’t have the time and even if you’re not hungry, you MUST eat that.

✅ YOU’RE (NOT) IN THE MOOD

Although you don’t have the time or the right mood to eat in the morning and you’re not hungry, you MUST eat – that’s what it says on the paper.

Although your body is telling you otherwise, you must get up from the table while you’re still hungry.

You MUST go do cardio 3 to 5 times a week – that’s why you got fat in the first place: you’re lazy. Right?

✅ YOU’RE NOT ALLOWED 🤡

YOU’RE NOT ALLOWED to go to bed on a full stomach;

YOU’RE NOT ALLOWED to feel full;

YOU’RE NOT ALLOWED to have cravings;

YOU’RE NOT ALLOWED to stray.

And, in the end, if you can’t respect all these things and you don’t lose weight, it is only YOUR fault! 🤷‍♂️

✅ WELL, WELL, WELL, WHAT DO YOU KNOW

Here is the thing: we don’t exercise a lot, we don’t create menus, we don’t do the “5 meals and 7 snacks” thing, we don’t keep food journals, we don’t count calories, we don’t weigh food.

Our members lose on average 1 kilogram per week (if they still have weight to lose) – without anybody creating a PDF menu for them.

✅ MODERATION

We eat a lot, we only get up from the table when we’re full and we don’t believe in this concept of “moderation” because it doesn’t exist!

✍️ Humans are like animals – they need to eat until they are full. Telling someone to eat less is like telling them to breathe less. 😆

Here are some things in your life where moderation is NOT key:

Your watch, phone, laptop, cars, house, vacations, clothes, shoes, jewellery.

✅ EXCESS IS IN OUR DNA

Homo sapiens is built with excess in his DNA – we were made like that: faulty. There is a faulty wire there between a minimum of effort and a maximum of excess.

In less than 100 years we managed to devastate a whole planet – and you want everyone to practice moderation?

Somehow, when it comes to food, we are supposed to practice moderation and eat very little because that’s what specialists with no training or experience tell us to.

What I love most: nutritional specialists who recommend having everything in moderation – but they are obese and sick and they admit themselves that they don’t practice what they preach.

But you know what? They’ll recommend you buy all sorts of expensive items like chlorella, spirulina, hemp seeds, avocado, goji (or whichever superfood comes up next). They’ll recommend you buy all sorts of supplements, powders, and meal replacements. And they’ll get a commission for it.

✍️ I never buy hemp seeds

✍️ I never buy avocado either.

More on this later.