Nutrition Guide Part 2

The Part that No One Talks About

After learning all the tips, tricks and techniques to be successful in following your nutrition plan, you might be thinking this doesn’t seem so hard...

I just modify my current style of eating a little bit, track my food somehow and voila, I will be transformed.

Well, you’re right, losing fat is pretty simple, but life isn’t.

Even though your nutrition plan was designed to be easy to follow and the suggestions in this guide should help you manage and overcome anything life throws at you, you may still struggle.

This is because in the quest to be perfect with your diet you will inevitably notice that the closer you get to perfection the harder it will be.

You will experience decision fatigue, accumulate stress, battle convenience and miss taste.

Now, unless you're a freak of nature (i.e. gifted) and can eat the same thing day in day out with no willpower required, this is not sustainable.

Unsustainable programs almost always result in rebound and failure. So the goal is not to be perfect.

The goal is to find the perfect balance for you between following your nutrition

plan and still enjoying your life.

ENJOY LIFE

The more strict you are the more enjoyment it tends to take away. Find the right sweet spot for you that you can

PERFECT DIET

maintain and remember, this is temporary. 

The goal is also not to always live like this.
Now remember, this period of fat loss and recomposition is temporary.

Once this phase is complete, you will be able to eat more, what you want and not have to track your food. (Note: this will change of course from what you want and enjoy now because as you transform you will become a new person)

But for now, sticking to your nutrition plan will require you change your ways to some degree.

Change usually requires discomfort. Knowing that this discomfort is temporary is helpful and may help you stick it out but there is a better way. Here’s my favorite way to help you minimize any discomfort associated with change.

This is What Lean People Do

Changing the way you do things often requires an identity shift.

Something I’ve found to be incredibly powerful in minimizing this discomfort in the moment of temptation, hunger or coercion (ie. pushy friends /family) when I know a certain food doesn’t align with my goals and I am not consciously wanting to indulge in it is becoming aware of this thought:

“I am a lean person”
“This is not how lean people eat”

To truly transform you have to literally become a different person and leave the aspects of your self that no longer serve you behind.

You consciously adopt a new identity and then reinforce it.
In that moment I find that you lose most if not all your desire to eat that

food/have that drink or even participate in that activity.

By choosing to be someone else, the person you want to be, right then and there, you are no longer your old self who made your old self’s choices which lead to your old self’s state.

Try it and see for yourself. Be careful though, you might just see how powerful you really are.