Do You Really Want To Stand Out?

When It Comes To Weight Loss You Don't Want to be an Outlier

I get a lot of questions about weight loss. Most of the questions don’t make much sense because the people who are asking are making a fundamental error in their thinking and that is:

They all think they’re different from everyone else.

They think weight loss in their specific case is much harder and that they are somehow an outlier thinking they are the one person who can’t lose weight with the traditional means of a caloric deficit.

9 times of out ten (and probably even more than that) these people are simply eating too much to lose weight.

By definition you would have to lose some amount of fat and weight if you were eating in a caloric deficit for more than a day or two. If you’re putting less matter in than is going out how could you possibly be at the same weight all the time?

Dieting for weight loss isn’t easy, and many people aren’t ready to take the necessary steps to make it happen. So instead of facing the fact that they’ve got more work to do they romanticize about being the one and only person who can’t lose weight because of some 1 in a million genetic anomaly that they’ve cooked up in their minds about themselves. This is both arrogant and disrespectful to those unfortunate people who DO have a legitimate genetic problem (as rare as it may be).

I’m sure there are the few unfortunate people who really do have some sort of genetic abnormality that makes them prone to weight gain, but for the vast majority of us it’s not a genetic issue. And if you did have such a problem you likely would already be diagnosed and be under medical supervision or on some sort of pharmaceutical therapy.

In other words, if you’re reading this you’re likely similar to everyone else and you just need to eat less. And that’s a good thing, it means the path to weight loss is simple, predictable and 100% achievable.

John

Posted by johnbarban in Health, Human Nature
Tags: Health, Human Nature, Standing out |15 Comments

15 Responses to “Do You Really Want To Stand Out?”

  1. Bart Says:
    June 7th, 2010 at 12:15 pm

    It could not be more simpler as John said. I am trying to cut while doing adonis workouts and i eat less and fast 2 or 3 times a week.
    Amazing thing is that my body is happy. And i am amazed that with the current weight of 165 6.1″ I still have some fat to loose, but i dont look smaller. Actually i look better, because of the increasing AI.

    I also wonder, why i ate more before. Probably to get fat!!!
    Human body is amazing. Just look at the adonis contest photos!!!

  2. usernametooshortnowitstoolon Says:
    June 7th, 2010 at 12:59 pm

    Yeah, I have lost about 10 pounds and everyone is saying I look bigger (as in more muscular). Funny how that works.

    Of course, I have been hitting the weights too, but the effect in just 7 weeks has been amazing.

  3. Tracey Says:
    June 7th, 2010 at 2:11 pm

    Is it fair to say that people really don’t need to eat much more then BMR (at least to maintain)?? I think main stream nutritionist think people in general need to eat way more. I’ve had many trainers etc say that in order to build muscle etc I need to eat around 2000,that is about 600 calories over my BMR.

  4. johnbarban Says:
    June 7th, 2010 at 2:15 pm

    Tracey,

    That is perfectly fair to say, and those trainers who have said such things to you are simply uneducated in human physiology and irresponsible for telling you such things (as there is no scientific evidence to support such a claim).

    John

  5. usernametooshortnowitstoolon Says:
    June 7th, 2010 at 2:49 pm

    LOL practically every personal trainer I’ve ever talked to doesn’t know what they’re talking about when it comes to nutrition.

    In fact, at the small gym I go to, everyone knows who all the regulars are (I’m one of them). The personal trainers there have seen my transformation in just 7 weeks, and many of them have started talking to me about what I’m doing and what my diet is. As soon they start talking about how nutrition is paramount, I immediately know where they’re going, so I just nod and smile. They’ll then always talk about eating 6 small meals a day and making sure to get protein every 2-3 hours and more importantly, to consume a PWO shake after every workout.

  6. usernametooshortnowitstoolon Says:
    June 7th, 2010 at 2:51 pm

    Of course, the hilarity is compounded when my body is now better looking than all the personal trainers there. In fact, some of them are unquestionably overweight – why the hell would they be preaching nutrition advice when it’s clearly not working for them? LOLOLOL!

  7. Tracey Says:
    June 7th, 2010 at 3:41 pm

    Thank you guys for your support. I feel like the emotional part is harder then cutting calories!

  8. Jason Says:
    June 7th, 2010 at 3:55 pm

    John,
    Can you touch on the physiological difference of burning more calories through muscular activity vs. decreasing calories through diet?

    I know that in ELITE endurance athletes, muscle size is compromised, but from a PRACTICAL standpoint, extra activity would be valuable to most weight trainers since anyone controlling their calories might have a hard time lowering calories further anyway.

    Jason

  9. Wazzup Says:
    June 8th, 2010 at 3:11 am

    I disagree, dieting for weight loss is extremely easy… just eat less.. every diet even the really really stupid ones will work. The hard part is doing it intelligently and sticking to it.

  10. usernametooshortnowitstoolon Says:
    June 8th, 2010 at 3:22 am

    Or more accurately, I think fat loss is extremely simple but not necessarily easy. ;)

  11. Wood Says:
    June 8th, 2010 at 8:25 am

    and most people doesn’t know how much they eat. Yesterday was my fast day, but the dinner wasnt ready and I ate some so called “Good Morning” cookies (ok funny to eat this for dinner lol) 1 piece was 56 kcal and I ate 7. So its nearly 400 kcal plusz the dinner (I’m affraid I ruined my fasting day effort :-( )

  12. usernametooshortnowitstoolon Says:
    June 8th, 2010 at 6:07 pm

    One simple but brilliant tip I just picked up on the forums is skipping breakfast on your eating days. For me, that means two 900 calorie meals instead of three 600 calorie meals. 900 calorie meals means a lot of freedom in what I can eat, and guaranteed tasty meals! Really looking forward to trying this out.

  13. Josh B Says:
    June 9th, 2010 at 1:29 pm

    It seems ‘username…’ and ‘Wazzup’ are the same person. No?

  14. usernametooshortnowitstoolon Says:
    June 9th, 2010 at 2:06 pm

    Haha, no. I was clarifying what Wazzup had to say.

  15. Josh B Says:
    June 11th, 2010 at 10:10 am

    ahh gotcha

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