We take on a new diet, start to see results, then fail to keep the weight off – rinse and repeat. Is that the cycle you’re caught in? The Ultimate Nutrition Bible – Co-Authored by Matt Gallant and Wade Lightheart – reveals why diets fail and how to create one that works.
Losing weight is simple, right? All that you need to do is take in less calories than your body burns in a day – it’s easy math. Creating a calorie deficit is central to most popular diets – and most people who follow the equation start to see results early on in the process. But maintaining weight loss in the long-term is the hard part – and studies continue to show that most dieter’s results diminish quickly.
Did your recent diet journey make you feel like you were an airplane taking off, soaring briefly through the clouds, and crashing back to earth? You’re certainly not alone.
Over the years, we’ve seen many diets come and go in the cultural zeitgeist. Many people yo-yo through as many as they can learn about – trying one out, getting the early results, and moving on to something else when the results don’t stick. One poll even suggests that the average dieter will try out a whopping 126 fad diets in their lifetime!
This is one of the many subjects touched on in The Ultimate Nutrition Bible, poised to be the most complete, unbiased nutrition book ever written. Authored by Matt Gallant and Wade Lightheart – the Co-Founders of BIOptimizers – the book will help you focus on your specific traits and needs and design your own diet based on universal nutrition principles.
When we take a step back and look at things, it seems like many of us are putting too much focus on the diets themselves. To get to a solution for sustainable, long-lasting weight loss, we must look at the common variable: the dieter. The Ultimate Nutrition Bible has been created to help readers through that work.
“If diet experts are honest,” Lightheart says, “the diet industry has failed. 97% of people who go into a diet end up failing – and they do so for reasons that aren’t being addressed.”
These issues are rarely acknowledged, because of dogma and the fact that it feels better to blame the diet rather than the person who couldn’t maintain results. But there’s more nuance here than simply saying “your diet failed because you lack self control, willpower, etc.”
Lightheart cites suboptimal or genetic predispositions and social constructs, as factors in addition to one’s ability to stay on the diet itself. Another common problem comes when the diet becomes so restrictive it damages the upstream effects of the calories in, calories out model.
The Ultimate Nutrition Bible devotes time to unpacking these factors. To create a universal guide for those tailoring their diet to their goals, psychology, and genetics, they balance what works amongst the most common diets, along with what doesn’t.
While you’ll have to get a copy of the book to dive into all these reasons why your diet stopped working, here are a few that commonly plague dieters.
The first is dieting too fast.
We live in a fast paced society where we’re accustomed to getting what we want immediately. This is what creates buzz around the 12-week transformations and get beach body ready quick plans that continue to let dieters down.
Humans have evolved to survive, not diet. When we drastically cut back on the calories too quickly, we trigger our starvation self-defense mechanisms. As your brain starts to think that the sharp drop in food intake is a sign of dire times, your metabolism drops, your hunger spikes, and the evolutionary alarm bells start telling you to stop dieting.
Other people fall into the trap of choosing an unsustainable diet. They adopt ones that force them to exchange the meals they love for foods they hate. Willpower is great – but it takes a special kind of person to avoid their favorite foods for the rest of their lives. The Ultimate Nutrition Bible is for those looking to lead a healthier life for the long haul – so the authors note the importance of designing a diet that meshes with your lifestyle.
“Right out of the gate,” Gallant says, “ask yourself, ‘Could I follow this diet until I’m 80 or 90?’ If the answer is no, then you know it’s not a sustainable diet.”
These factors can be as simple as asking if you prefer eating meat or vegetables, and could be as complex as considering the amount of novelty you need for life to be fresh and exciting.
If your last diet showed great promise before falling off the cliff, then maybe you should spend more time considering your needs and psychology in order to create something sustainable.
Another common reason diets fail comes down to genetics. We all come from different places – and our bodies have developed based on the conditions of our ancestors. What’s going to work for someone is going to have a negative impact on another. If you’re genetically a strong fat-burner, for instance, going keto is going to have great results – while someone with the opposite genes may struggle to enter ketosis in the first place.
Nutrigenomics – the science of nutrition and genes – plays a significant role in The Ultimate Nutrition Bible’s approach to building you a sustainable diet. Matt Gallant and Wade Lightheart have poured years of research into the topic so that you can learn more about your personal genetics and discover the nutrition plan that’s going to work for you.
So now that you have a grasp on some of the reasons why your last diet failed, how about you discover the one that will serve you for life? Order The Ultimate Nutrition System, today.
