162 - How To Fit a Healthy Diet Into Your Lifestyle and Not The Other Way Around

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Most guys try to fit their current lifestyle, which is always super packed with things to do, into their newfound diet plan.

This is a mistake and usually ends up in frustration and failure.

Most dads live a tremendously busy life and trying to find the time to shop, prep, cook, and eat foods on a very specific diet is hard. Like, really hard.

Sure a diet can work for you but it has to have three things to be successful long-term.

1. It has to be healthy. Cookie diets, liquid diets, or fasting diets can be very low in calories and nutritional value, which isn't the right way to lose weight.

2. It has to get results. You might be on the world's most popular diet but if you don't see physical results, it's not the diet for you.

3. It has to be sustainable. This is where the vast majority of diets fall short. They are either too strict, too complicated, or too hard to stick to and you quit.

Instead of trying to find the "perfect" diet for you, I suggest focusing on a few of the following principles I use with my own diet and for my clients.

Eat more foods with one ingredient. A potato is a potato. A chicken breast is a chicken breast. A Pop-Tart is a sugar filled piece of sh*t with 27 ingredients.

Don't starve yourself in the name of weight loss. Eating MORE and burning the difference off is a far better option.

Eat in a way that doesn't add more stress to your life. Simple is better.

Eat foods you know are healthy and avoid ones that you know are hurting your progress.

Eat more foods that give you energy.

Recognize that weight loss isn't a sprint. Fill your diet with high quality foods and your body will reward you. It's as simple as that.

Use the 80/20 rule. Eat high quality foods at least 80% of the time consistently and then you can afford to eat the things you really crave the other 20%.

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