You're Wasting Your Time If You Ignore This

In 2012, I was halfway through college and almost halfway through my 100-pound weight loss journey.

I started the Insanity Workout by Beachbody, which is eight weeks, six days per week, 45 to 55 minutes per day of intense bodyweight exercises, jumping, calisthenics, and HIIT training.

I did not miss a single day, and I'm proud that I did it, but I never want to do that again.

I lost only 2 pounds (from 204lbs to 202lbs) and was disappointed.

After I stopped crying, I realized that the issue was me not caring about nutrition.

I ate whatever I wanted and did not change anything, probably even eating more because I was exercising so much.

I did not count my calories before because I had thought it was a woman thing (blame commercials).

After two months of the hardest physical work I've ever done, I had to change something because that was insane.

(By the way, following a program can’t compete with understanding movement patterns. Check this out to get your workouts down to under 45 minutes.)

I looked up calorie-counting stuff, what my body needed, and how to keep track of it, and after losing those 40lbs through brute force exercise, the other 60 pounds I lost way quicker.

The whole point of this is to say that you cannot outwork a bad diet.

If you're trying to lose weight or even gain weight, you cannot just focus on exercise because that mass control has to come from somewhere.

If you're gaining weight, you need to eat more.

When you're trying to lose weight, you can't just work it all off.

You need to change something.

You cannot outrun your fork.

You cannot do it no matter how fast you run or how long you run.

If you run a mile and eat a Twinkie, all the calories you just burned are now back with you.

It's much easier to control the intake to begin with in regards to what your body needs than to just eat whatever and work it off through brute force.

It's not sustainable, not fun, and not working smart.

When you eat like trash one day, don't think you can work way harder the next day and make it up.

Just take the L (as the kids say), correct your food habits going forward, and don't think your activity will make up for it.

And for the people who are very active and don't track their calories and think they're all Gucci, it's not because you're naturally thin, but because your appetite at this point in time is not exceeding what you do with your activity.

In general, don’t try to outwork your shitty eating.

It's not going to work.

But this will:

Also, a guide.

Feel free to reply back with any questions.

Okay, bye!