Are you counting your calories, hitting your numbers, and wondering why your diet isn’t working? The problem isn’t just the total amount of calories you are consuming; it’s the kind of calories.
Most diets revolve around calorie counting with the occasional cheat day, which leads to a restrict-and-binge cycle. Sound familiar? To make real changes to your body composition and performance, you need a realistic approach to food – which I why I created the military macros protocol.
With Military Macros, You Count The Primary Macronutrients, Not Just Calories.
My ‘Military Macros Protocol’ has helped my clients be able to lose weight and get healthy without:
- Endless hours doing cardio
- Working out for hours everyday in the gym
- Having to buy expensive supplements every month
I want you to be able to live the life you want with the body you want while eating simple, delicious meals and working out in a pleasurable way.
The Three-Part System For Improving Your Body Composition
Step 1: Limit sugar and carbohydrate intake
Because of the pro-inflammatory nature of sugar and carbs, the fastest way to lose the bloat, inflammation, and water weight in your body is to limit their intake to less than 50 grams per day, preferably under 20 grams.
Step 2: Increase daily protein intake
Your body needs proteins and fats for survival (unlike carbs), so you now need to nourish the body with high quality proteins, namely animal-based proteins. And you need to be intaking a minimum of one gram per pound of body weight.
So if you weigh 200 pounds, you need to be eating 200 grams worth of protein. That’s about 1 pound per 100 grams. So a 200 pound man should be eating about 2 pounds of meat.
Step 3: Implement and leverage intermittent fasting
Fasting is a proven tool that can help heal your body and control your caloric intake. Fasting means you eat nothing, but depending on which fasting techniques you use, you can leverage them for your life in amazing ways.
For example, you can use OMAD (One Meal A Day) on days that you travel or days where you know there is a big holiday party you need to attend with lots of foods you may or may not eat. By fasting before the party, even if you consume ‘bad’ foods, you won’t hurt your progress unless you go ham.
But why does this strategy work so well?
This is a fat-burning driven strategy.
By mostly eliminating carbohydrates, and focusing on only the two macronutrients your body actually needs for survival, the body switches its fuel source.
The reason so many people struggle to lose weight today is because they’re either focused on grinding off the calories on the treadmill or in the gym (both of which are terribly inefficient ways to burn calories)
Or they focus on the wrong fuel source and then cut the fuel source.
For example, if your diet includes carbohydrates in them, you’re primarily fueled from carbohydrates. It’s the body’s preferred fuel source when it’s in your system.
If your diet does not include carbohydrates, or a very low amount, your body changes its fuel source to fats and you go into a state of ketosis.
It’s like going from a junky car filled with unleaded fuel, to a sports car filled with premium fuel.
Now, back to what I said before – cutting the fuel source:
If you’re fueled by carbs, and then to lose weight you cut your calories and macros down, yes, you’ll lose weight via energy balance, but you’ll also be fatigued, low-energy, irritable, low-sex drive, and lowered testosterone.
Just listen to bodybuilders the last couple of weeks before they hit the stage. They’re miserable because they’re starving, with hormones lowered. PLUS sacrificing a decent amount of muscle and a slowing of their metabolism.
I know it well, because I’ve done it that way plenty.
Counting calories and macros as a macro coach is something I’ve had success with – you can certainly lose weight by cutting your fuel source, as long as you’re willing to endure the fatigue, low energy, irritable mood swings, low-sex drive, lowered hormones, etc.
Not to mention the lack of family time as you try to fit in hour long gym sessions, cardio sessions, grocery shopping for expensive carb options, meal prep, and 5+ meals a day.
The Military Macros method allowed me to:
- Lose fat 5x faster than anybody else counting calories and macros.
- Control my hunger, beat binge eating, and put an end to the rollercoaster dieting.
- Retain MORE muscle than traditional dieting
- Keep my metabolism fast so I never have to worry about a few nights out with the family or on vacation.
Why does this method work?
Obviously, not eating puts you into a calorie deficit. But the real key is insulin.
You’re ALWAYS either storing body fat OR burning body fat. Never both at the same time.
When you eat, your insulin (fat storage hormone) is elevated.
When you fast, using either intermittent or OMAD, your insulin is low for a longer period and your body is able to tap into your body fat to burn for fuel.
These tactics, alongside a high-protein animal-based diet regimen and fasting-friendly workouts, allows me and my clients to accelerate our fitness results.
And no, you WON’T be starving.
Fasting (when done right) stops your hunger completely.
The stomach growling isn’t true hunger, it’s just your blood sugar rising and falling.
When you’re fasting, your blood sugar stays steady, and you only get hungry when you’re actually hungry.
The other benefit is that research has shown that fasting helps retain more muscle than traditional calorie counting.
How so?
When your insulin is low because you’re fasting, your Human Growth Hormone levels are elevated. HGH preserves muscles and helps burn unwanted body fat.
If you know you need to implement these strategies into your life right now, sign up for the Military Macros Protocol.