Why Calorie Counting Sucks as a Way to Lose Weight (Episode #80, 5 Feb. 2022)

Betty the nutritionist has given you bad advice.  Calorie counting is not a great way to lose weight.  Sure, in the short term, with great pain, sacrifice, and peer support, you can lose weight adopting the standard model - high carb/low fat coupled with calorie counting, but in the long term you will likely rebound.  Betty is right in the abstract, but she's wrong about why you are eating too much.  It's not your will power.  It's not your weakness.  It's your model.  Your don't understand hunger and satiety hormones. In this episode, we explore the awesomeness of Dr. Jason Fung and his ground breaking book, The Obesity Code.  After reading his book, I have easily lost 70 pounds, painlessly, effortlessly, and without any concerns about a food bender rebound.  It's easy because, with the help of Dr. Fung, and the app, Fastic, I know what makes me hungry, what makes me full, and more importantly, how to eat consistently with our shared ancestral wiring of 3.5 million years of human evolution.  After you understand that, weight loss is easy. In this episode, we explore why Betty is soooo wrong through an exploration of the hunger hormone, ghrelin, and satiety hormone leptin.  I share some studies from the Obesity Code and my own personal experience relating to the power of intermittent fasting and ketogenic diets.  Keto and fasting will help you master what makes you hungry and what makes you full, resulting in you stuffing your pie hole less, losing weight, and getting ripped.  A six pack is not far away!! This episode was fun to do!!