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The Diet That Actually Works
Do you want to know what diet ACTUALLY works??
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SPEAKER_00:We're your hosts, Brooke Brewer
SPEAKER_01:and Danny Mullen here from Raw Fitness. Confidently Flawed is a podcast dedicated to bringing you the secret sauce in helping you look good and feel even better.
SPEAKER_00:What's holding you back from being the most confident you?
SPEAKER_01:What's up, y'all? Back, Confidently Flawed, Danny and Brooke here. And we're here to talk about the diet that actually works. It's pretty crazy. This is revolutionizing. So we wanted to bring to you a diet that you'll actually stick to. It's not keto. It's not fasting. It's not low carb. And I'm sure everybody listening has tried at least one of those. I know Brooke and I have also tried or carnivore, right? Or whatever it is. So here's the thing. The diet that actually works is is the one that you're actually gonna stick to. And maybe that is one of those, and that's okay, right? But the problem that most people make is they go from zero to 100 too fast. They try these extreme plans instead of just sustainable strategies. Now, if you're somebody that has been doing nutrition or focusing on nutrition for years and years and years to where like a step to go from what you're doing now to say carnivore like in Brooke's scenario, which I don't know, are you still doing that?
SPEAKER_00:I wish. I have meat aversions in this pregnancy, so I can't even look at meat right now.
SPEAKER_01:I'm sure, yeah. As I was saying that, I was like, I wonder if she can even do that right now.
SPEAKER_00:Oh, no. I was through like six weeks, and then I turned that corner of Joey's cooking meat in the house, and then I puked. I was like, oh, boy.
SPEAKER_01:No, no, no. So, Brooke, before she got pregnant, right, her scenario from like what she did nutritionally to like– incorporating carnivore was not like a massive jump, right? But for some people, it is a huge jump, right? And that's like extreme. And that's where people run into problems is because it's not about doing the extreme things. It's about doing sustainable strategies that are like just a slight step up from where you're at now. And everybody's different. Everybody's in a unique situation. But if you're going from like, you just eat terribly, you have no control over it. You're not doing any type of structure or anything with your nutrition to saying, I'm going to start keto, like you're probably going to fail, right? Not that keto is wrong or right, but just that it's such a big jump and a massive jump that it's very hard to stick with. And when it's very hard to stick with, when times get hard, we fall off. And then we're in that all or nothing phase of like, if it's not keto, then I'm failing. So let me just disregard. I'm not going to do anything. Right. Which doesn't help you either. So when I look at diet, it really comes down to very, very simplistic. How can you make it as simple as possible for you specifically with where you're at currently in your evolution of nutrition or whatever it is? And then what are some little things that you can just slowly add on top of it over time? So Just to kind of give you an analogy. So we used to do this with a lot of our... When people first came to see us, we would do... you know, we call them challenges, right? But it's essentially a lifestyle program, right? We're helping them with their fitness, we're helping them in nutrition, and then we're holding them accountable to it, right? Or supporting them along the way. And we used to do it, whereas a lot more extreme, you had to do all these different things. And then you had to, you had to sleep X amount of hours, even though you only normally sleep two hours, right? And then you had to drink all this water, and then you had to do this. And then you had to follow this exact meal plan with this exact portions, even if you didn't like the food, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, right? Like all these like extreme things for people. So like, sounds great on paper. Did it work if people followed through? Absolutely. The problem is it was such a big jump that people would do it for a week when they're highly motivated. We just talked about this a couple of episodes ago. But when things got tough or the motivation fades, it's too difficult to try to sustain it in such a short amount of time going from zero to 100. So over the years we've kind of researched we've tested the current style that we have is we just we it's so freaking simple like we have 14 year olds that do it where it's literally color coded it's proteins fats and carbs and veggies and it's like just choose this amount from this list so it's like choose four to five protein sources from this list at this portion right and it doesn't even have to be weighed like we even say like at the get-go like don't even weigh your food don't measure it don't i don't care just choose four to five things from this list a day choose two things from the carbs choose one thing from the fat choose three to five things from the veggies right like that's so simple in nature that you're like i can do that right i can follow through with that i don't have to measure i don't have to count calories i don't have to do all these things it's literally written out for me and there's We provide recipes if they want to use them, but I like it because it forces them to build a skill while it also keeps it so incredibly simple. You could literally go through that plan and never cook a day whenever you want. Like if you did it for six weeks or whatever, like you could literally do it and not have to cook any food. It could all be grab and go options. If it's on the list, you eat it. If it's not, you don't. Like how easy of a diet concept is that, right? So people get really good results and they stick to it because it's simple. And then we teach them the next levels over time as they need to. But it's like, you know, for instance, like we might say, take somebody from that to like just counting calories or just measuring their food. And then maybe we start to incorporate actually counting their calories, right? Because they're actually measuring, there's actually data. So, but we're not going to take them from here to counting calories right away and doing macros, right? We have an evolution that they're going through over time of like, all right, pick from the list. All right, now let's start kind of eyeballing portions. All right, now let's start actually measuring the food. Okay, now you're actually going to track calories and now you're going to start doing, you know, maybe some macros if you like it that way like the end result like with that is you know say somebody just loves carbs they love sweets right and they don't want to give it up great we give them the baseline of like well if you still want to lose weight you probably need to be around this many calories okay you're gonna need this much protein to keep your metabolism your muscle tone up right you don't want to drop that um Then you just backfill the rest. So X amount of your calories are going to come from protein. The rest can be Oreos. I don't care, right? Is it the healthiest? No, but like it's teaching them skills. It's teaching them the foundation to at least get this nutrients in. And then if you want to fill it with wine or Oreos or ice cream or whatever it is, you can, right? And teach the skills of how to do that. So then it becomes more sustainable long-term. And I think the sustainable strategies that are simple that you can slowly add and stack habits, like I was just mentioning over time is, is really the name of the game for like how to make a diet actually work for you.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, absolutely. I think, you know, this, this sub, this topic makes me think of way back when, when my mom and I first really started eating a little bit cleaner, my brother would always give us crap. Oh, you guys in your diet, you guys in your diet. And we'd be like, no, it's not a diet. It's a lifestyle. But like, that's exactly the truth. Like my, You know, yes, don't get me wrong. Like, yes, I'm coming. You know, I did carnivore for almost two years. Like, that's a very dramatic diet. But at the end of the day... you know, yes, you can kind of, you know, maybe if there's like a push, you're like, you know, I've got a wedding coming up. I really want to look good. Yeah, there's nothing wrong with like really sticking to like a strict diet. But I think that at the end of the day, the lifestyle of just a way of eating, of giving yourself the ability to just know what's right and wrong to eat, sprinkle in the wrong maybe a little bit, but you're aware. I think that's what's important. So like when I say lifestyle, I mean, you just need know those things, right? Like, you know avocados are healthy fats, right? So it's like you're going to lean more maybe towards the avocados and the mayonnaise or... You know, you're going to lean more towards, you know, getting that protein in and getting the carbs in when you just become so much more aware of these things. And as Danny was saying, like, you know, I love the idea of the list. And then eventually we go to calorie tracking and then eventually we go to maybe weighing because you start to learn those things. And as you grow in your health and wellness journey, you start to just know you just start to Be aware, like you realize, hey, I know that piece of cake is not good. Excuse me. I know that piece of cake is not good for me. So I'm either not gonna eat it or I'm going to eat a little bit of it. It's just a lifestyle of eating. Like you just make that conscious effort to eat clean, but also to know that a bad meal, a cheat meal is not the end of the world. In fact, there's so many quote unquote diets that literally incorporate a cheat meal. They'll be like, okay, Friday nights is your cheat meal. You can go and eat whatever you want. And I think that, Again, if you have, you know, and I'm not here to say there's, there's, I don't think there's anything wrong with dieting. I really don't, especially if you're doing it with a professional, but here's the thing. What I do think is wrong with dieting is thinking that dieting is like forever and that dieting is going to be what you're going to do for the rest of your life. Like, I went into carnivore knowing I know I am not going to eat this for the rest of my life. Like, yes, do I feel good? Yes. Am I probably going to lean more towards eating an animal-based diet? For sure. But I went into this knowing we want to get pregnant. We're struggling with infertility. There's a lot of science behind this. This is what we're doing. We have a goal. And that was our goal. And like I said, if your goal is, you know, to get pregnant or if your goal is to lose weight for your wedding or if your goal is, you know, you're going to go see a guy that you haven't seen in a couple years, you want to look good, like, okay, like, you know, let's crank down for a little, give it and get motivated. But just remind yourself, this isn't forever. But it's through the ways of eating. It's through maybe the diet. It's through maybe your experiences where you just learn this is the lifestyle. My lifestyle is that I know that I need to eat protein. I know that... I know what carbs are better for me than others. I know what fats are better for me than others. Like you just become aware and that all take, it takes time. If you're listening to this and you're like, I have never once focused on food, thought about food, like you're going to start smaller than others. If you're listening to this, you're like, oh my gosh, like I know how, how many grams is in this amount of chicken. I know how, you know, how much like, you know, it just comes with time. But if you can just focus, What diet is going to stick? It's not so much of a specific diet that's going to stick. It's going to be just the lifestyle that works for you and that you just can kind of just do it without stress. Believe it or not, stress is something that makes you gain weight. And if it is so incredibly stressful for you to keep up with this diet and it just makes you so stressful, like the diet might not even work. You might be eating all the right things for your body to lose weight, but you're so stressed out doing it that you're not going to lose that weight. So finding a way of eating that is going to reduce your stress, that's just going to be easy because it's a lifestyle. So think of my brother in your ear going, it's you know, that diet. And then you say, no, it's not a diet. It's just a lifestyle. It's just the way of eating. And yeah, you can ebb and flow stricter diets here and there as times are needed. But at the end of the day, what is going to stick is what you can stick with without having these like dramatic up and down roller coasters. It's just kind of that steady line of like, okay, this is what I know works for me. And you kind of just roll with it.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, I love what you just said there. What sticks is what you can stick with, right? And I think that's the big takeaway from this is it's got to be simple. It's got to be like slowly adding over time, stacking those habits, not worrying about being perfect. Because if you try to be perfect and make this elaborate plan and you know you're not going to stick to it, you know it's not going to help you in the long run anyway. So you might as well take the slow route because Brooke said it is going to take time. A new habit, a new lifestyle takes time. But when you do it and you do it in a simple way that you actually probably kind of enjoy, it then just becomes that much more likely that you stick to it long term. It's more sustainable. And then you have that avenue of like what you can rely on really the rest of your life. And I think that's really the key. If you want a diet that's not a diet and it's just more of a lifestyle, it's those Small, simple changes that are going to get big bang for your buck and just do it over time. And we talked about this a couple episodes ago. It's like find some way to hold yourself accountable with that. Put a deadline, whatever it is, for now so that you can actually be more likely to really anchor in it. So hopefully you guys found some value from this. Hopefully this helps you if you kind of have that all or nothing or you try to just like– put everything on the table and do a diet versus maybe creating more sustainable, easier habits, this probably is a good episode for you. Or if you know somebody else like that, we just ask that you share this message with them so we can kind of share what we're talking about and share it with the community here. And if you got some value from this, just ask to give us a rating and review. We appreciate that and we appreciate you guys. And until next time on another Confidently Flawed podcast episode.