Tyrone Bray argues that named diets work short-term but fail because they're too restrictive. What actually works is eating whole foods with adequate protein, healthy fats, and carbs tailored to your body. Replace processed foods with meats, fish, vegetables, fruits, and eggs.
So one of the most frequent questions that I tend to get, particularly from new clients, is, "Do I need to go on some kind of diet in order to lose weight?" Or if the goal is obviously building muscle or getting healthy, getting out of pain, same type of questions like, "Do I need to go on some kind of diet in order to get these results?" So most people know they have to exercise and so on, but most questions tend to come based around nutrition. It's the case of, well, what sort of things should I be eating in order to get the best results possible? And of course, the question of, well, do I actually need to diet is quite an important one. Now, the first thing that we have to kind of ask is, well, are diets actually effective? And then when you look throughout the industry, even though there are hundreds and hundreds of them, if not thousands of different variations of diet that we could go on, most of them tend to be effective, at least in the short term. So based on that information, we go, well, I can pick pretty much any so-called fat loss or weight loss diet and get the results I want. The catch-22 is that, well, we have to ask, well, why are there so many? And the reason there are so many is because people very rarely get long-term or lasting results using a diet. Most of them are unsustainable and often far too restrictive in order for people to comfortably be able to stick to them. So, we know that they're effective in the short term, but we know that they're pretty much useless, generally speaking, in the long run. So, yes, you could use a diet to obviously help you achieve your weight loss goals. The catch-22 is you probably won't be able to stick to that for a long period of time. So, therefore, your results are either going to plateau or at some point in time they're going to reverse. Now, a lot of people, particularly the last couple of years, have been jumping on the keto bandwagon. Before that, we had paleo and and things like that. Of course, there are other carb-based diets and things as well, which vegetarian tends to end up very carb-based. We've got like the McDougall and things like that. And the, the similarities between all of these different diets is what tends to make them all short-term effective. Now, when you look at them and break them down, is they all, when you get to a kind of base level or a root level, recommend whole foods. So they all say, Whole foods. Eat healthy whole foods where possible, not processed refined crap. Now, aside from that, that's when they— or sorry, that's their sort of base level recommendation. They all recommend good food, and then after that, that's where the differentiations come in. So it's like, oh, some recommend more protein, some more fat, some more carb. Now, if they're all recommending the same thing at the base level, maybe that's the only principle we really need to follow in the long run in order to both get our results and to maintain them. So yes, we could argue, well, a diet is necessary or is useful, but at the same time is likely not necessary in the long run. So I wouldn't personally recommend that anybody goes on a particular diet. You can change your diet based on specific principles that you need to follow. So we need to make sure we've got adequate protein, we need to make sure we've got adequate healthy fats, and then obviously a a good amount or a supportive amount of our carbohydrates and so on. And that's going to vary based on each individual, but you don't want a specific diet to tell you what that is, because the truth is we are all individual biochemically. So what that means is, at a base level, at physiological and a biochemical level, we're all completely individual, and a specific food that will help one person will hinder another. So one will heal and heal excuse me, one food will heal one person and then potentially make another person unhealthy, unwell, sick, overweight, and so on if consumed over a long period of time. So we need to take those factors into account, but what you ideally want is a way of eating that's sustainable. So you don't need to pick any specific diet. 9 times out of 10, what you can actually do is just replace the junk and the crap that you know you shouldn't be eating with healthy whole foods. Once you've got those healthy whole foods in the diet, so now we're talking about things like meats, fish, veg, fruit, herbs, spices, dairy if you can tolerate it, whole grains if you can tolerate it, eggs and so on. So we want foods that come in their natural state where possible and are minimally processed if processed at all. And then that way you know that your body is going to be able to get the most amount of nutrition from that food. Because the nutrition hasn't been damaged or lost during the processing of it. That's one way that we can obviously go, okay, well, I can eat well, but without having to confine myself to the restrictions of a specific diet. And 9 times out of 10, unless I have some kind of underlying health condition, just switching to those healthier foods is going to get me to where I'm looking to go. Now, of course, in the long run, if you have more specific goals, you know, like let's say you're prepping for a photo shoot or you want to get on stage and compete in a, in a physique competition, well then you might need some kind of dietary intervention or short-term diet to get you to that prepped state. But generally speaking, if you just want health, you want to be lean, fit, strong, and healthy, then all you need to do is eat well. And as long as you're eating well in support of your lifestyle, that's all you need to do. You don't need to follow any particular diet or dietary restrictions. Because there's no need. You're serving your body with the nutrients it needs, and that will help you get to where you want to go. That's all I have for you today, guys. I'm not going to go on and ramble on this too much longer. So if you have any particular questions, or you want me to dig into nutrition deeper, as always, drop your comments below. If you want me to get into individualized nutrition, or if you want me to break down my metabolic, metabolic meal system, I can do that. So it's not a diet, it's a set of principles that we follow in order to get to a specific point, and then from that point, once you're at what we call a clean slate state, and the body is now speaking to you properly through the language of symptoms, that's when we tweak it, individualise it, and make the diet specific to your individual biochemistry. Sounds all complicated and complex because of the words like biochemistry and so on, but it's not. It's real simple. It's just learning to listen to your body and the responses it gives you based on the meals or the foods that you've just eaten. That's all I'll leave you with today, guys. Any questions, let me know, and if not, I look forward to chatting
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