The Dangers of Extreme Dieting

Well, and look, and at the end of the day, if you're taking a lot of these fat burners, again, they're there. They do they increase fat oxidation? Yes. Is that a good thing? Yes. But you could also do that by just, you know, doing doing a little bit more activity and maybe eating a tiny bit less or training a bit harder to get a little bit more output up. But there is a consequence of this. If you take people who are already stressed out and beasting life and you throw in a bunch of stimulants on top of that, you're going to put them in a situation where they're pushing way more energy in the bloodstream than they can get into the fat cell. and they're going to overwhelm their ability to turn that into energy. So in a lot of cases, that can backfire, especially if you have people who take stimulants early in the morning and then end up binging at night because you can, you create this, this almost seesaw teeter-totter thing where they're moving from this, this, this state where they're breaking a lot of things down, they're trying to throw them back here. And so now you're overeating. And so you end up binging more and more and more because you're trying to make, you're trying to compensate for all the stuff you're doing earlier in the day so your body's trying to maintain a balance and your blood sugar and your insulin management is a reflection of that which kind of leaks into instead of we'll leave protein as the last macro we talked about but this kind of highlights how carbs aren't the issue it's insulin but insulin isn't just managed via your carb intake well and the thing is it carbs aren't the problem insulin's not the problem fast not the problem cortisol is not the problem adrenaline is not the problem it's everything and again this is it's a matrix of shit that clients don't need to know about they just need to understand like this it's i always just tell them i'm like it's complicated it's complicated i can explain it to you if you want but i just need you to know what to do and be consistent at doing that that's the most important thing um but it's like your your body wants to stay at homeostasis if you want to change one direction or the other, you have to make it imbalanced, but you can get the point where you're teetering imbalance too much. So like everything's situational, everything has, you have to align a lot of context, right? So if I have someone who just wants to lose 20 kilos in eight weeks, we can do that. But the consequence is you're going to lose the muscle tissue. You're going to be miserable. You might develop a disordered eating pattern. Your sleep's going to get disrupted. Your libido is going to go to shit. Your hormones are going to go to shit. if I have an athlete that's like a coach comes to me and says my athlete I want I want her to get I want her to drop 15 kilos so she runs faster like how fast do you want this because if I do this really fast she's going to lose power output so even though she weighs less she's also going to be

lower. So we got to look at that and say, we can't do extreme stuff to do this. We have to do it in a way that fits into the environment and the context and the situation that we're dealing with. You know, if you had somebody who was really overweight and they had to do something, let's say an astronaut, you got an astronaut. I'm just going to throw out the weirdest thing I can think of. You got an astronaut and NASA calls you and says, look, this person needs to lose 15 kilos, 20 kilos in six weeks can you do it yes at that point at the the situation dictates that it has to be extreme because we've got a very narrow time limit and this guy's going being sent to mars or whatever they're sent to uranus whatever um you know at that point like we can justify doing something extreme and we can justify the consequences but for the rest of our clients You can't like it doesn't make sense to go through these patterns of high and low and high and low spinning your wheels, trying to do extreme things to make things run faster than they should be run. Especially because the way that I see a lot of people doing it is that they think that you can build substantial amounts of muscle in a month or two months. So they go through a building phase for four weeks, maybe eight weeks. Oh, I'm getting a little fluffy. I need to go into a fat loss phase and they don't actually build any substantial muscle mass. They just keep looking worse and worse year after year. Yeah.