Three Categories of Fat Loss Physiology

Yeah. And I was going to bring up Lyle McDonald because I've got to give credit where credit's due. He's the one that got me onto the three categories and the concept of some of this stuff. And no matter what your opinion of Lyle is, because some people love him, some people hate him. He's just brutally honest and he just doesn't care. I will say he's almost always right. So he's very rarely wrong on things. Like there are a couple of things I disagree with him with, but most of the stuff I'd say is spot on. And I remember when I, when I first started training, he used to train girls out of a gym that I worked out at. So I saw him like training his power lifters and things that was god that was decades ago and that was back when like atkins had had not really come back out yet it even predated actually had the atkins revolution or atkins in like the 70s and then you had the actin's rebel new rebel uh revolution thing that came out maybe it was that time or just a small time after that but he i i read dan duchesne body opus and i was reading all these old books on keto dieting And I was like that seems really interesting And it really kind of how it lines up to how I eat anyways because I was a protege of Charles Poliquin. And this is before I ever met Charles. But I tried the way Charles said to eat, which is basically protein and veggies. Just eat protein and veggies and healthy fats and see what happens. And it worked fantastic and well for me. And it worked really well for most of my clients, not everybody, because some people are inherently more tuned in to having carbohydrates or at least higher amounts of carbohydrates than others. So everybody's genetically different and physiologically different. But I remember the red body opus and then Lyle did a whole thing. I think it was like 1996 or so or 1998. He did a whole thing on a webpage where he did body opus and he tracked everything and he did weeks of this stuff. And I was like, man, that's really cool. And that got that got me going with all of this stuff of reading like, Dr. Michael Eads, protein power, reading the body opus stuff, reading anything I get my hands on the old Atkins books, whatever. And then then that stuff actually exploded. You had the Atkins new revolution, you had South Beach diet, all this stuff. And I found that that worked for probably 60 to 70% of my clients. And so So years later, I go back and I went, I'm going to review that stuff again because I use it. And I said, this would be really good in a seminar because Lyle's never going to teach seminars and not everybody likes Lyle. So I'll do this and add in my stuff and other people's stuff, package it all up, give credit, obviously, because I'm a big proponent of that, and go out and I'll go out and teach coaches this because a lot of coaches don't know any of this stuff. And a lot of, especially younger coaches, they don't study physical culture history. They don't know who these people are. So I'm like, okay, I'm going to go out and I'm going to teach them this stuff and show them, yes, calories in, calories out works for everybody. However, that doesn't mean it's optimal because there are certain times where your physiology is really different between different levels of body fatness. And there are things that are inherently faster and easier for some people than others.