Dr. Andy Galpin

How do I lose weight?

You can look across meta-analyses and review articles and you will see the number one predictor of long-term

successful weight loss, and by weight loss, I mean fat loss, is always adherence.

It's adherence to your workout program and it's adherence to your nutrition program.

So step number one, before we worry about any change in diet, we sort of start arguing about which method of exercise is best before we start really going way down the line to things like genetic testing, like you're really wasting your time here.

And a lot of that stuff, especially if you're not paying attention to what's going to make you adhere the longest amount of time.

In fact, if you just stopped right there, that's enough for most people.

Can you put yourself in a position where you're able to feel abundant with your nutrition approach?

And notice I'm trying not to say diet here.

It should be a nutritional approach.

You have a balance between living life and flexibility, but then also figuring out what triggers you.

And maybe you don't have a trigger.

Maybe you can be more flexible.

Maybe you need more stringent, like all the things that go into it.

You got to figure out a system.

So you're not, people will not be on a diet very long.

collectively, right?

On average, diets don't work, quote unquote, for those exact reasons, right?

You got to get to a caloric deficit somehow, okay?

But you got to do that in a way where you still are happy and... Sustainable.