It’s not even about the weight loss

What if I told you that the target is not losing weight? How many times have you set that goal for yourself?

How many times have you acted towards that goal, only to get back to where you started from? Pour yourself some coffee and keep reading…

✅ THE SECRET

I don’t think you need a “diet” or a “meal plan”. I believe you rather need new habits to help you succeed.

That way, your weight will be back to normal and it will stay there for the rest of your life.

✅ HABITS

We won’t provide you with a “diet” or “menus”.

What we target is making a change regarding specific key habits. That change will prove beneficial to you for the rest of your life.

The secret: the steps you take should be simple, pleasant and should make your life easier.  

For this reason, we will begin by mercilessly excluding preset menus, meals at fixed times or eating specific foods.

✅ I’M WILLING TO BET

I am willing to bet that you are a bit like me: a busy person, juggling timetables in order to have everything done at the end of the day.

I bet you have a complex routine and you wouldn’t appreciate extra constraints, like eating at fixed times, weighing your food or counting calories.

These activities will only frustrate you anyway.

I bet your intuition also tells you that these activities are not sustainable long-term (meaning “for the rest of your life”)

✅ THE ONION APPROACH

Our philosophy is to change one habit at a time and to only gradually raise the sophistication level of your dietary daily routine.

Basically, we are constantly adding layers to the onion.

✅ YOUR PARTNER

Before we do anything, the most important aspect (probably) in this process is to secure the support of your partner.

For this reason, we encourage all our subscribers to view our video modules, to get medical tests done and always do the big clean-up together with your partner.

When we say clean-up, we don’t mean vacuuming or washing dishes; we mean throwing away all junk food items.

I think that together we can probably get your partner to support you on this journey. After this, everything will be much easier for you.

✅ THE BIG CLEAN-UP

With the support of your partner, we wil take it to the next step.

Let’s get all junk food items out of the house. Let’s throw away all processed foods.

Let’s bring in the clean food: vegetables, fruits, meats, organs, fish, sea food, selected cheeses, butter, olive oil.

When you’ll open the fridge next time, you won’t have to invest any willpower in order to keep yourself away from temptation.

Therefore, with every passing day, it will be easier and simpler fot you and you will get closer to your objective.

✅ SLEEP

Sleeping starting 10 PM is crucial for your health, longevity, bodily repairs, weight loss and, especially keeping your figure.

You know what’s happening here? Practice confirms clinical studies:

The later you go to bed, the more often you will eat. And you will eat more and probably a lot of sweets.

We will offer you strategies that have been successfully tested by thousands of people, strategies that will enable you to take your kids to bed earlier.

And it will enable you to go to sleep at 10 PM.

You will find more information about sleeping and other interesting topics in our program in the video modules section and upcoming articles.

✅ SNACKS ARE 4 BABIES

Another inadequate habit for weight loss is snacking. Snacking twice a day means over 700 snacking sessions in a year.  

Let’s face it: when you snack between main meals, you will always go for foods with empty calories, like chips/crisps, biscuits/cookies, bagels, peanuts, fruits.

Changing this habit will help you to effortlessly maintain your weight for the rest of your life.

Yes, I wrote “snacks are for babies”.

I never give any snacks to my kids. And you know why? Because when I sit them at the dinner table and put food on their plates, I want to have peace and quiet.

I don’t like to hear any whining.

✅ INTERMITTENT FASTING (IF)

Here is where intermittent fasting becomes helpful. The Internet is abuzz with information on how IF can help you lose weight.

When you have the last meal of the day at 8 PM and set your next meal for the next day at 2 PM – do you know what you’re doing?

You are basically eliminating the breakfast and snacks before your first meal of the day.

When you make this switch from 3 meals and 2 snacks a day to just 2 meals a day, of course you will lose weight.

You are switching from 1000 meals and 700 snacks per year to just 700 meals per year.

IF helps you by keeping you away from the fridge, not by “activating autophagy” or something.

Note: autophagy is activated when you do exercise or restrict calories. There is no need to starve yourself in order to activate autophagy.

One more thing: there is no way to measure autophagy, so you won’t know if you are in the midst of such a state anyway.

Intermittent fasting works simply as a lever that helps you limit your calorie intake.

Don`t worry, we already planned couple of hardcore articles on IF, OMAD and long term fasting.

✅ PARENTS

The ongoing problem I have faced for years and years: getting my parents to understand that I have changed the habits that caused me to gain weight.

They had a very hard time processing the fact that I don’t eat sweets, bread, potatoes or rice anymore.

With time, “have a bit of this as well” or “I made your favorite food” have changed to “I’ll prepare some steak, some salad and eggs for you”.

It took years. But it was worth it.

✅ FRIENDS & COWORKERS

For years, I had to face countless times when I was made fun of. All I heard was:

“Come on, have some pizza, a slice never killed anyone”,

“Man, I heard enough of this diet of yours”.

With time, they understood that I’m done with making compromises – not because I don’t want to, but because I have changed who I am.

No one is laughing today. Do you know why?

Because I have a MOUND of evidence supporting my new identity: my sleeping habits, my exercise routine, the way I look and especially the COMMUNITY MEMBERS’ RESULTS.

Somehow, everyone has gotten used over these past 13 years to the fact that Valentin is a bit different. That I “exaggerate”.

✅ EXAMPLE GIVEN: 2 PRETZELS

Surely, there is a pastry shop you walk by every morning. You always stop and get maybe 2 items of pastry.

We will use pretzels for this example (Note: in my home country of Romania, pretzels – or bagels - are the most popular pastries).

1) What if I told you that the two bagels bring in 800 empty calories, would you change something? Probably not.

2) Let’s say, starting tomorrow you walk right past the pretzel place, you don’t stop, you just look away and keep going. Do you realize that in 20 workdays you will have saved over 16.000 calories?

It is estimated that 1 kg of human fat is around 7500 – 8000 calories.

Do you realize that, just by changing this small daily habit, you will have lost 15 to 20 kilos in one year? Does this still not make you want to make a change?

3) We have a list of key medical tests you will need to do. If you do the tests and find out you are pre-diabetic, this means your pancreas is pumping excess insulin. In that case, do you still think it’s a good idea to have pretzels at the start of the day?

But you are maybe thinking: that can’t be, your blood sugar levels are perfect. Right?

Ladies, do you have abdominal fat? That’s the first sign that you are insulin resistant. Do you have a lot of abdominal fat? You probably already are pre-diabetic and don’t even know it.

4) If you ever had the (mis)fortune of having a glucose tolerance test done during your pregnancy, you should know that that drink which was used contained 75 grams of glucose. Two pretzels have around 100 grams of glucose. Still not convinced?

5) I could go on and on about pesticides, fungicides, parasiticides, antinutrients, phytic acid, leptin contained in grains. Still not convinced?

I see beer and bread as being suitable for laborers, people with a very active routine. My grandfather, who was a farmer with not much education, used to tell me this: “Grandson, bread makes you fat and dumb”.

In the end, you do realize that until you change this habit, the chances of you ever reaching your goal are dramatically decreased.

✅ EATING BREAD DOUGH EVERY DAY

Practically speaking, you can’t eat bread dough every day and lose weight or maintain your current weight.

Unless you are willing to walk for a bit more every day in order to burn those 800 calories.

Are you willing to walk for 4 hours (~20 kilometers) daily – in order to burn the calories contained in those 2 pretzels? If not, it definitely makes much more sense to just walk PAST the pastry shop. 🙂

From my experience, an online calorie calculator should do the trick. You should try to find the most accurate one possible. From what I’ve seen, electronic devices massively overestimate the number of calories burned.

See what I’m doing here? I am constantly looking for an angle that would make your brain go “CLICK” and enable you to do the right thing for yourself.

✅ IDENTITY

In these past 13 years, I have completely changed who I am.

Up until my 28^th birthday, I used to eat anything, in any amount; I used to run marathons, I used to go to sleep way past midnight and I used to experience a constant yo-yo effect (gain that weight right back).

Now I am a completely different person. My diet is now completely different and I go to bed by 9 PM every day.

As I type those words I just made a screenshot from last night`s sleep. I am a man of my word.

I do about 20 minutes of weights training every day; I cycle or I walk daily; I take the occasional ice bath or sauna.

Today I am a different person not because I changed my diet, but because I changed the way I think. I have identified harmful habits and I have gradually eliminated them.

At the same time, I have implemented other, helpful habits – and these have helped me maintain my weight for about 13 years.

IT’S NOT ABOUT LOSING WEIGHT

So what do you think is more efficient in the long run? A “fad diet” or using the power of habits?

After gradually changing your habits, weight loss will come as a natural consequence. And wit the proper habits, your desired weight will stay the same for the rest of your life.

Simply put: the way you look today is the sum of all your habits in the past years.

The way you will look one year from now will be the sum of habits you will have put into practice until that time.

You can’t even imagine the „devastatingly” beneficial cumulative effect of cutting all pastries from your diet and walking for one hour more every day.

What do you have to lose if you try this for a month? Other than some extra weight, nothing.

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