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We’re all screwed!
And we’re going to stay fat forever.
At least, that’s what a recent study conducted by researchers at King’s College, London, suggested: “The chance of returning to a normal weight after becoming obese is only one in 210 for men and one in 124 for women over a year.” If the person is severely obese, the chances are even less.
Ruh roh.
It had me thinking that maybe we’re already doomed. After all, we’re doing all of this hard work, trying our best and making changes…and yet years later we end up back where we started. Crap.
And then I dug into the study.
And it gave me hope for Nerd Fitness and the Rebellion.
“Of 278,982 men and women, the study found that only 1% of people who were obese at the start of the study were successful in losing weight AND maintaining the weight loss.”
The pointed out that the prescribed “count calories, eat less calories than normal, and exercise dutifully” failed 99% of people after 10 years.
There are two ways to look at this study:
1) Once we are overweight it’s nearly impossible to create lasting results. It’s like we are trying to hold back the tide, or fight an army of White Walkers with both hands behind our back. This self-limiting belief can crush us and convince us to give up.
2) Conventional medicine’s current strategies to tackle obesity are failing to help the majority of obese patients shed weight. A prescribed “eat less and move more” regimen fails to factor in dozens of other elements that create lasting change! Something needs to change.
But, as the home page of Nerd Fitness says: You don’t have to take advice from the Dark Side. There’s a better way to get healthy, a way that creates actual change in our lives and long term results.
After all, we have a MASSIVE community of people here in the Nerd Fitness Rebellion who HAVE drastically changed their lives, so what’s going on here? We are the Watchers on the Wall, and we are fighting off the white walkers – how are we getting results while most of the mainstream are stuck on this up-down roller coaster?
As we have seen through countless studies, YES: consuming less calories than you burn – and continuing eating that caloric deficit for an extended period of time – will result in weight loss for a strong majority of people.
This is where most of the mainstream advice that those 278,982 people were following stops. Implementing strategies such as diets does result in people having short term success. We’ve even seen a turning of the tide here in America, where we’re finally starting to consume fewer calories as a whole.
It’s not so much that this advice doesn’t work (it does!), it’s that this is only one part of a much bigger picture). In turn, they’ve failed in ACTUALLY getting people to follow their advice over the long term. And that’s the only thing that matters.
As Morpheus tells Neo, “There is a difference between knowing the path, and walking the path.”
Frankly, the results in the study don’t surprise me! I get emails daily from people saying “Steve, I know what I need to do, I just can’t get myself to do it.”
Here at Nerd Fitness we understand what it takes to implement something for the long haul:
Instead, modern medicine is telling people to move more and eat less without the rest of it. It’s obvious this is a recipe for failure: when your environment is working against you at home, when society is designed to make eating healthy so difficult, and when your social circles are working against you, of course only 1% of people are going to succeed.
That would be like trying to:
Sure, it’s possible. But less than 1% of us can actually do it! If we look at our success through that lens, it’s clear we’re failures… but we can adjust the constraints to work FOR us rather than against us.
Or, in gamer terms: why not just press the damn A button?!
Let’s learn how.
I’m proud that the Nerd Fitness Rebellion is a group of average Joes and Jills who think differently. When I started Nerd Fitness seven years ago, I knew that mainstream diet and fitness advice sucked, and it wasn’t getting people lasting, long term results.
That was the whole point: rebelling against this insanity!
So, let’s take a look at how to use more than the joystick, and ensure that ALL of us get healthy. Like Batman with a fully equipped utility belt, we need to use all of the tools at our disposal in order to succeed long term:
Set yourself up for long term success with habits that last PERMANENTLY: This is the most important thing you can do for yourself. Once you understand how your brains work and how to build new habits, you can start attacking them with small, deliberate, permanent changes. If you struggle with willpower, you’re not alone. You have to understand how willpower works first!
So we start with tiny changes we can live with, and then we slowly expand them as we build momentum. We prove to ourselves we CAN change. “I just need to try harder” never works – you need to understand HOW to try, and then try smarter.
Diets don’t work. No, I don’t mean “the Paleo Diet” (which is a lifestyle change or nutrition adjustment, not a temporary diet). What I mean by “diet” is a temporary change to one’s life for a short period of time. You can also add things like juice cleanses and detoxes to this list, also known as destroying yourself 90 days at a time unsustainably. I cover all of these popular weight loss tactics that perfectly fall under the reasons 99% of people struggle to keep weight off a decade later.
We don’t do short term changes; our goal is long term, permanent solutions. We need to be deliberate in our efforts to change our lives: this is not a short term fix. It’s a fundamental adjustment to how we make decisions daily that sets us up to succeed.
Build an environment that supports you: We are products of our environment, and we are affected by everything around us subconsciously all day long. For that reason, like Bruce Wayne and his Batcave, we too need an environment that creates effortless success for us rather than tempting us back to the darkness.
We know that really focusing on hacking the source code of our lives can have a drastic effect on every decision we make, and can set us up to succeed long term:
A great support system: Fighting this battle alone is like going up the toughest dragon in World of Warcraft solo – why not build a great team to fight alongside you? As the saying goes, “you are the average of the five people you associate most with,” so surround yourself with a killer Justice League.
We need people who support and inspire us to get healthier rather than drag us back down. If a great support system can cure drug addicts, it can certainly help with living a healthier life. It starts by surrounding yourself with people that care and want you to succeed, not sabotage your efforts.
We know that types of food we consume factor in greatly: consuming 600 calories of Twinkies is not a great long term solution compared to 600 calories of chicken, fish, avocado, and leafy vegetables.
In fact, most of the processed junk we eat today is designed to target certain parts of our brain that make us say “MORE MORE MORE” – if you’ve ever eaten one of something and then can’t get yourself to do anything else until you’ve eaten the whole bag, you know what I’m talking about. It’s tough to restrict calories when your brain has been hijacked!
If you want our nerdy take on this, read: “Star Wars Explains Why We’re Fat.”
I know we have a lot of people reading Nerd Fitness who are just getting started on their weight loss journey, many of whom who probably have gone up and down in weight for years (wondering if it’s hopeless).
This study is going to divide people into two camps:
I have a hunch most of society probably fits into Group A, and most of the Nerd Fitness Rebellion fits into Group B.
I’d love to hear from you:
Have you successfully defeated the evil forces of long term weight gain?
Did you fail one way before succeeding in another?
If you’ve struggled, what keeps you trying? And how are you trying differently?
-Steve
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You don’t need fancy butter, designer pie tins, or a pastry degree in order to make a pie from scratch — all you need is gumption. It doesn’t have to be perfect; it just needs to pair well with ice cream.
In today’s video, watch just how easy it is to transform butter and flour into a gorgeous pie of your very own.
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For years, I’ve made the case for a particular way of eating: the Primal Blueprint. Based on nutrient-dense vegetables, fruits, animals, fish, nuts, seeds, tubers, herbs, spices, and fats, it recommends against consumption of a few foods — grains, refined sugar, seed oils, excess carbs — but is overall very inclusive. A person can live and eat very well drawing on the extensive list of recommended foods. Millions of people all over the world have embraced this way of eating and made radically positive transformations of their health without feeling “deprived.”
Those are the committed ones, though. The ones willing and able to overhaul their kitchens, purge their pantries, and cook every single day. This can be a big sacrifice entailing meal planning, budgeting, and transforming the way you shop for, look at, and think about food. Not everyone is ready to do that. Not everyone has the time. They turn to restaurants, or grab something quick from a cafe or deli. Worse, they hit the drive through.
For almost as many years as I’ve been writing this blog and these books, I’ve also dreamed about providing a very real and concrete outlet for people who want (and need) delicious, nutrient-dense food without always having to make it themselves: a Primal restaurant. As much as this movement has grown, it’s still young, still small. Most people don’t know about it, and although restaurants are making initial overtures with gluten-free buns and lettuce wrapped burgers and salad options, the majority of quick and easy “on the go” options are of terrible quality. It’s easy to complain about the sad state of casual restaurants, but that doesn’t help the people who eat there. I wanted to help them.
But I couldn’t run a restaurant myself, let alone multiple restaurants all over the country. I had a company to lead, books and blogs to write, and friends and family to spend time with. So it remained a fantasy for years. The dreams didn’t go away, but they didn’t come to fruition — until I had a small realization.
I could leverage my knowhow, my connections, and my business instincts to make it easier for other people to open Primal restaurants in other cities. Instead of doing all the work myself — an impossible task — I would create a Primal restaurant platform and franchise it out to others. Not only does this bring delicious food to people desperate for nutrient-dense fare they don’t have to prepare, it opens up business opportunities to Primal enthusiasts who want to marry their passion to their livelihoods. It wins on multiple levels.
I’ve teamed up with Mario Altiery, president of Upside Group Franchise Consulting. Mario grew up in the food industry and is an accomplished chef who has launched multiple successful restaurant franchises. Over the years, he’s developed a system for creating successful restaurants and other businesses that scale to the franchise level. He knows how franchises succeed and how they fail. Together, we form a formidable team. I’ve hinted at it on social media, but today we’re rolling out the official announcement of Primal Kitchen Restaurants.
This isn’t a health food franchise. You won’t be selling cardboard burgers and dry rabbit salads. This is objectively delicious food that the average person won’t know is also good for them, just like how friends and family don’t believe you when you whip up a Primal recipe. I love great food, and I won’t settle for less. Neither should you or your future customers.
Because you recognize and want to celebrate the fact that food can be both delicious and nourishing, provided you use quality ingredients, fresh meat and produce. Primal Kitchen Restaurants won’t be hijacking taste buds and appropriating brain reward chemistry to compel food addictions, like processed food manufacturers employ food chemists to do. It will appeal to the the innate desire each of us have to consume nutrient-dense, delicious plants and animals.
Because you’re a firm believer in high-quality, uncompromisingly delicious food. For food to be truly worth your chewing time, it must nourish the soul and the body.
Because you’re sick and tired of what passes for grab-and-go restaurant food in this country. Because you hate seeing kids drinking fountain Coke, eating fries, and gorging on deep fried chicken fingers. People do want high-quality, gourmet food and you want to give it to them.
Because you want to be able to grab a quick bite to eat without breaking the bank or worrying about the quality of the ingredients used to make it — and you know others feel the same way.
Because you’ve been searching for a way to turn this Primal stuff you spend so much time on into a viable business.
Because you believe in the Primal message: that we owe it to ourselves, our health, and our gene expression to eat in accordance with our biology.
If you want to be a part of a restaurant revolution — or even if you just want to provide good food that you can believe in — and you’d like more information on Primal Kitchen Restaurants, fill out this form and you’ll be contacted by a member of our staff with further details. (And if you have a friend that has always dreamed of opening a place where people can go to get delicious food that is also healthful, please pass this blog post along to them.)
I’m excited. My entire staff is excited. I can’t wait for the day that I can go to Phoenix for business and get a legitimate Big Ass Salad for lunch. Let’s make that happen!
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