Weight loss without the malnutrition
It’s easy for a nutrition „specialist” to tailor an 800-calorie menu for you. BAM! Go full-on hungry for 2-3 months, lose 15 kilos. And then what?
Then you’ll be able to look at your dry skin beginning to sag. You’ll have new stretchmarks, you’ll notice your fingernails start to break more easily and hair loss.
✅ “WHAT DO YOU DO FOR A LIVING”?
This has been happening to me for 10 years now. After I meet someone new at an event, the question always comes: “What do you do for a living”?
It used to be cool to introduce myself as an engineer, a specialist in implementing billion-dollar risk management projects.
But it was my choice to abandon this career 10 years ago in order to pursue my life’s passion.
In all honesty, I’m a bit ashamed to introduce myself as a “nutritionist”. That’s because, invariably, I’ll hear the response: “Oh, you create menus…”.
Moreover, in order to become a “nutrition technician” you need a baccalaureate/high school graduation degree and to have completed a 3-month long course. So now I just introduce myself in the following manner:
“I help people lose weight and maintain their figure without pre-established menus, without counting calories, without weighing food or eating on a fixed schedule”.
✅ WHAT I WOULD ADD TODAY
“I help people lose weight without going hungry or becoming malnourished”.
🏆 PRO Tip: within my program, if you ever feel hungry and ask what to do about it in the WhatsApp group, you’ll always read this answer: “We never go hungry in the Body Engineering program. Please eat”.
I heard many times: “But I ate at 6 PM, now it’s 9.30 PM and I feel hungry again. What do I do?”. The answer is: eat until you’re full, then go to bed and sleep like a log.
🏆 PRO Tip: In our program, we recommend that the most consistent meal of the day be in the evening, around 8 PM. Eat well, sleep well. Sleep well, you’re a new person.
✅ MALNUTRITION
There is no universally accepted definition for the term “malnutrition”. Being malnourished can include:
too few calories (undernutrition)
too many calories (too much and inadequate eating)
too few micro and macro nutrients
When I talk about malnutrition, what I am mainly referring to is the latter version (too few micro- and macronutrients). What this means: too few minerals, vitamins, protein, Omega3, fiber.
✅ UNDERNUTRITION
An 800-calorie menu for a static woman with a daily energy intake need of 1600 calories IS THE DEFINITION OF UNDERNUTRITION.
Eating 800 calories when your body requires 1600 calories daily means you’re creating a highly severe calorie deficit (-50%). This cannot possibly be sustainable forever.
An 800-calorie menu cannot possibly include the complete necessary spectrum of proteins, Omega3, minerals, vitamins and fiber.
You can use the Cronometer app to get an easy check. I’ve been using it for many years and I have made around 10000 simulations alongside community members.
✅ HUNGER
Any menu under 1000 calories = hunger.
Feeling constant hunger cannot possibly be easy or pleasant. And for months on end.
A true specialist will never set an energy deficit higher than 25% of your daily energy intake needs.
Meaning: if your body’s daily energy need is 1600 calories, your daily dietary intake should be around 1200-1300 calories.
If your nutritionist is a superPRO, they’ll encourage you to go walking for an hour a day in order to increase your daily energy need from 1600 to 1800 calories per day.
This way, you’ll get a higher energy deficit that will help you lose weight.
✅ CALORIES…
You can tell by yourself. It’s one thing to get 1200 calories from eating 2 hot pretzels with yoghurt and protein bar.
And a whole other thing to get 1200 calories from eating a morning omelette, soup and liver with spinach, oven-baked fish with a pound of vegetables in the evening + 2 apples.
With a minimum of knowledge, you can come to realize that, from a nutritional perspective, what those calories bring along is crucial. And not just that.
Two pretzels with yoghurt will keep you full for 3-4 hours. Then what?
You’ll eat a sugar-free protein bar. That will hold you for another 2 hours. Then what?
In the evening, you will raid the fridge. That’s what you’ll do.
Do you think that I was obese for decades for no reason? I know all the angles.
✅ MINIMUM 1300
After thousands of simulations and “meal ideas” for static women, I have reached a clear conclusion.
🏆 PRO Tip: without a 1300-calorie minimum per day, one cannot possibly intake the whole spectrum of proteins, Omega 3, minerals, vitamins and fibers. It’s virtually impossible to have a nutritious diet within a smaller number of calories. Impossible.
After thousands of similar simulations, I have written the official Body Engineering Guide here:
Our members are required to eat the following cumulative minimums: 3 eggs + 200 grams of meat or organs + 200 grams of fish or sea food + 1.2 kilograms of vegetables.
You can add certain things to your food: a tablespoon of butter, a spoonful of olive oil, a little bit of parmesan.
You can have 2 smaller apples or a pear within your “1.2 kilograms of vegetables”.
✅ NUTRITION
Yes, you read that well. Our program only contains MINIMUM requirements.
I see as my main objective to teach you how to nourish adequately, how to eat fully nutritious food. I always see energy deficits and weight loss as secondary objectives.
We have enough time to lose weight. But what we cannot lose any more time on is inadequate nutrition. Not after a few decades of it.
I would rather you eat a minimum of 1600 nutritious calories and get as good a nourishment as possible. I would rather you get rid of cravings, correct deficiencies and stop hair loss.
I promise you: weight loss will come as a natural consequence of nourishment optimization.
✅ SIMULATION: MINIMUM 1300 CALORIES
Taking the guide above as the point of departure, here is a simulation:
INGREDIENTS
3 eggs + 200 grams of mackerel (2 cans, for example) + 200 grams of beef hamburgers + 1 kg of vegetable + 1 large 200 grams apple + a bit of butter, olive oil, salt + 2 liters of sparkling mineral water.
THE RESULT?
For breakfast: 3-egg omelette with veggies
For lunch: beef hamburgers with veggies
For dinner: fish and more veggies.
After dinner, go walk for a bit then have an apple.
NUTRITIONAL DATA
1.323 calories
118g proteins
60g fats
60g carbohidrates
25g fibre
3g Omega 3
And, as you can see below: the full spectrum of minerals and vitamins.
✅ SUPPLEMENTS?
In 100% of the simulations, vitamin D3 is at a deficit and for this reason we recommend testing (25-OH-D) levels and supplementing with an adequate dosage.
If you don’t eat fish or sea food, you will be encouraged to supplement food intake with a high quality Omega 3 supplement (essential fatty acids).
We don’t recommend any other supplements. We don’t have affiliations or sponsorships with companies that manufacture supplements. You are free to choose which vitamin D3 or Omega 3 supplement you want to take.
Out of curiosity, I recently teste my Omega 3 Index and I am at 8%. Good levels.
If you want to be 100% sure of what to do, I have broken the entire process down. You can read everything below in the PREMIUM AREA.
Short, sweet and concise content about: supplements I recommend, how the weight loss process works, how fast you can lose weight at differing levels of compliance with my recommendations plus (BONUS) a recipe for a delicious & 100% compliance Slim Cake
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