CHAPTER 1
WE NEED A NEW PARADIGM FOR FAT LOSS
At the beginning of my weight-loss journey in 2008, I thought it was as simple as burning more calories than I consumed to achieve my desired fat-loss outcome. My focus was on losing weight to get healthy. I began exercising more and eating less, and the weight started to come off. But then something happened. A few weeks in, I found myself hungrier and having to rely on more willpower and sheer discipline to get through each day. Eventually the fat loss slowed down and then I plateaued. My first thought was to cut my calories even more and burn more calories through exercise. It worked! At least for a couple of weeks . . . until the same problem kept occurring.
I eventually discovered that being overweight was not my problem—it was my symptom. By focusing on weight loss and caloric restriction, I was treating the symptom but never getting to the cause. This was one of my biggest aha moments, because it led me to discover that nobody has ever had a weight problem. Even when I was obese, I never had a weight problem. It was a weight symptom! When I shifted my focus to hormones and cell inflammation, the symptoms disappeared by default. Many people are focused on their symptoms but never truly get to the cause, which is at the cell level.
In this chapter, I’ll reveal the main reason you gained weight and have trouble keeping it off. I’ll also dismantle the old theory of your genes determining your destiny. We’ll explore why our cells are critical to fat burning and how chronic inflammation can interfere with their ability to function, causing uncomfortable physical symptoms. I’ll also share what I call the “five fat-loss failures” and the science behind why they don’t work.
Your Cells Help You Burn Fat
Your body has a built-in communication system, governed by your cells, to make sure metabolic fat burning happens effortlessly. Think of this intelligence as an air traffic controller at the airport. Just as an air traffic controller is responsible for making sure hundreds of flights take off and land safely each day, each cell inside your body functions in a similar way, communicating with your hormones so you can burn fat and produce energy.
How many air traffic controllers do you have inside of your body? According to an estimate published in 2013 in the Annals of Human Biology by an international team of researchers, and appropriately entitled “An estimation of the number of cells in the human body,” you have about 37.2 trillion cells. If lined up, your cells would wrap around the Earth 2 million times. That’s a lot of flights!1
Our internal and external environments affect every one of our cells. The DNA in them gets injured throughout the day, and we must repair our genome (the complete set of genes within a cell) several times a day. With our 20,000 genes, we can build 4 million different variants of ourselves!
Why am I starting a chapter about fat loss by discussing genetics? Because when we’re diagnosed with obesity—or even serious conditions such as cancer or heart disease—we’re often told that this condition was in our genes. It’s not our fault; it was just bad luck. This message is outdated, as you’ll see throughout this book. With the lifestyle changes you’re about to embark on, you have the power to positively influence your genetic expression, transforming your health at the deepest level.
What if you want to build yourself a new body? Guess what? You can!
We’ve seen this many times before. When you run into an old friend who suddenly looks completely different—well, they built themselves a different body. You can actually build yourself a new body of vibrant cells within a matter of days, once you give your metabolism the building blocks it needs to thrive. You can also replicate sick cells when you give your metabolism inflammatory, processed foods that are abundant in our food supply. The choice is yours.
The length of a cell’s life varies depending on the type. The following table shows the lifespan of various cells.
THE LIFESPAN OF CELLS
| Cell Type | Longevity |
|---|---|
| White blood cells | Approximately 13 days |
| Skin cells | About 30 days |
| Red blood cells | Around 120 days |
| Liver cells | Renewed every 150 to 500 days |
| Can regrow even after up to 90 percent removal | |
| Hair cells | 6 years (women), 3 years (men) |
| Stomach/Intestine cells | Up to 5 days |
| Bones | Osteocytes: Up to 25 years |
| Complete regeneration cycle: 10 years | |
| Heart cells | New cells generated throughout lifespan |
| Half of birth cells still present at 50 years old | |
| Replacement slows with age: 1 percent at 25, 0.5 percent at 75 | |
| Brain cells | Neurons in cerebral cortex may last a lifetime |
| Regeneration of damaged cells possible (neurogenesis) |
How Inflammation Interferes with Our Cells
When you pause to think of how magnificent your human body is, you’ll find yourself in awe. As you read this sentence, I want you to place your right hand over your right ear and keep it there as I share this with you.
Got it? Okay.
You are a masterpiece because you are a piece of the master. Your body is not broken. Your body’s a vessel for your beautiful soul. You were designed to thrive while experiencing peak vitality, energy, and vibrance.
Okay, you can remove your hand now. You’re probably wondering why I had you place your hand over your ear. I didn’t want this message to go in one ear and out the other!
Inside your body is a beautiful orchestra of hormones circulating in your blood. These chemical messengers attach to your cell receptor sites, unlock the cell door, and communicate with the cells themselves. When this happens the way you were designed, you burn fat and feel good—and obesity becomes obsolete. Here’s the question: If you were created this way, why are 93 percent of American adults metabolically unhealthy?2
Your cells have receptor sites called integral membrane proteins. These receptor sites are integrated within each cell, and they act like a cell phone tower. A cell phone tower receives a signal from its environment and performs a job. Your receptor sites receive signals from your hormones, nutrients (both food and supplements), oxygen, and even thoughts. When this communication system is not working properly, symptoms will develop. There’s only one main reason why this communication system becomes dysfunctional: because of inflammation. You’ve likely heard the term inflammation before, but it’s important to note that there are two types and understand the difference between them.
Acute Inflammation vs. Chronic Inflammation
Acute inflammation is not necessarily bad. As you’ll learn in the upcoming pages, there’s a benefit to causing short-term stress so your body can become stronger. This is a principle called hormesis, which we’ll discuss in detail later. Think of acute inflammation as soreness from a workout; your body adapts to the stress, repairs any damage, and recovers, and you become healthier and stronger. Chronic inflammation, on the other hand, is the boogeyman we want to avoid.
Each cell has a lipid (fatty) bilayer wrapped around it called the cell membrane, which is composed of a double layer of phospholipid molecules. The cell membrane functions as the outer “skin” of the cell and controls the passage of materials into and out of it. Proteins in the cell membrane provide various services, including structural support and the formation of channels for the passage of materials. Think of the cell membranes as the bodyguards of your cells.
Scientists once believed that the DNA nucleus served as the intelligence within your cells. But their premise was proven to be flawed when Dr. Bruce Lipton, a world-renowned cell biologist, arrived on the scene. He challenged the notion that your DNA runs the show, conducting experiments where he’d remove the DNA nucleus from cells and observe what would happen next. To his surprise, the cell continued to function without any issues for months. This proved that something else was in charge, so he set out to discover what that was. Dr. Lipton found that when you remove the cell membrane, the cell instantly dies, which means that the wisdom inside of our bodies is contained in the cell membrane—it is where life begins and ends.3, 4
This brings us back to chronic inflammation. When your cell membrane is chronically inflamed, hormones, amino acids, nutrients, minerals, oxygen, and so on will be blocked from entering the cell. The figure below demonstrates how this looks at the cellular level.
This leads to symptoms. These symptoms start out as general fatigue, brain fog, and weight gain, but if not addressed properly they could lead to diabetes, heart disease, autoimmune disorders, and even cancer.
Symptoms Are Your Body’s Check-Engine Light
Your body is smart. When there’s interference, it will speak to you. If you were on a long road trip, and suddenly your car’s check-engine light turned on, what would you do? Would you ignore it? Would you cover it up with some duct tape and keep on driving? If you chose this option, you’d most likely end up destroying your car, or at the very least crashing it, which would get you into serious trouble. A better option would be to pull over or drive it to a mechanic, pop open the hood, and investigate the interference. Your symptoms are your body’s check-engine light—and thank God it has this to show you when you are out of balance.
So when there’s interference, the best thing to do is find out where that interference is coming from. Conventional medicine, however, chooses to chase symptoms instead of investigate their source. For example, let’s say you went out and gorged yourself one night. You consumed the following: an entire pizza, a full plate of spaghetti and meatballs, four beers, and two scoops of ice cream.
You woke up the next morning with the following symptoms: a headache, gas, bloating, indigestion, and acid reflux. You scheduled an appointment with your conventional doctor. You explained your numerous symptoms, and your doctor prescribed numerous medications, including an antacid and an antidiuretic.
Are those symptoms the problem or are they your feedback mechanisms? What if your doctor instead asked the question, “What did you eat last night?”
Again, symptoms are a beautiful gift from your innate intelligence. The most common symptoms linked to cell membrane inflammation are weight gain and weight-loss resistance. This is why trendy diets have failed you. Most quick-fix diets work against the way you were designed at the cell level, making it difficult to achieve results that stick. In the next section, I’ll explain why most diet programs fail: they focus on treating symptoms rather than addressing the root causes.
The Five Fat-Loss Failures
There are five myths about fat loss that have led you to being frustrated with your results. I call these the “five fat-loss failures.” These myths encompass ideas like using snacks to boost metabolism, believing carbohydrates are crucial for fat loss, the notion of calories in versus calories out, the reliance on willpower, and the belief in one-size-fits-all approaches.
Before I reveal the specifics, I want you to know that the failure of your previous attempts to lose weight is not your fault. Weight loss is a big business for four reasons:
- Many people want to lose weight.
- They sign up for expensive weight-loss programs.
- The programs fail.
- They repeat the process over and over again.
The problem is that most programs—and even doctors, dietitians, and nutritionists—promote losing weight to get healthy. This is not how the body works. We don’t lose weight to get healthy; we get healthy to lose weight.
The “lose weight to get healthy” approach creates a vicious cycle. A person steps on the scale and says, “I need to lose 50 pounds.” They sign up for one of dozens of diet plans. They do the plan and lose some weight. But the plan is painful, and after a while, they give up and return to their old habits. The weight returns. They step on the scale and say, “I need to lose 50 pounds . . . again.” So, they sign up for another diet. Around and around it goes like Groundhog Day but without the happy ending.
Part of the problem is that the mechanisms of weight control are very complicated and susceptible to wild theories. This lack of understanding leads to the proliferation of “solutions” that don’t lead to positive outcomes.
For example, if a cell membrane is inflamed, the fat-burning hormones t3, leptin, testosterone, and human growth hormone won’t be able to enter it to communicate the message to “burn fat.” It’s like joining a Zoom meeting with your co-workers when your mic is muted. Your co-workers can’t hear you, so you speak louder until you’re screaming; eventually, you get frustrated (and maybe fired). This is what trendy fad diets end up doing: simply frustrate you. If you had been told, “Hey, your mic is muted,” then you could have simply unmuted it. This book will teach you how to unmute your cells, so they receive the fat-burning message, and no one has to get fired. Well, maybe Big Pharma and Big Food.
Let’s take a close look at each of these five fat-loss failures.
1. Calories In vs. Calories Out
Most traditional diets fail because of weight regain. We can learn a lot about the flaws with this method from the television show The Biggest Loser. If you recall, the contestants on this popular TV show were all obese. They were assigned personal trainers who focused on the “calories in vs. calories out” method of weight loss. The participants increased their exercise and decreased their caloric intake. It sounds logical, doesn’t it? This concept is based on the idea that as long as you consume fewer calories than you burn, you’re bound to lose weight. The problem is that this is much too simplistic and does not take into account real-life conditions.
The participants achieved incredible results during the recording of the show, highlighted and applauded on the final episode. Yet in a 2016 study in the journal Obesity, of the 14 contestants researchers followed, 13 of them regained at least some of the weight they had lost during the competition, and over the following six years, 5 were above their pre-competition weight. The contestants featured in the study had regained an average of 90 pounds (70 percent of their lost weight); they also were hungrier with an even slower metabolism than when they started the show! It turns out that the contestants’ leptin levels—a hormone that signals to your brain that you’re full, so put down the fork—had plummeted after the show and never recovered. This is why there’s never been a Biggest Loser reunion show!5
Although this is an extreme example, I see variations of this happening to many people who try popular weight-loss diets. Calories matter, but they aren’t that important. When I owned a gym in Miami back in 2013, I hosted seminars on the science of fat loss. I would teach the members of my gym to calculate how many calories they burned each day, and then I’d place them in a calorie deficit. It worked . . . in the beginning. It failed in the long run, which confirmed my hypothesis that what is more important than the quantity of calories we consume is the quality of those calories. I realized that focusing on calories was a huge distraction from what really matters: hormones and inflammation.
The fact is that in terms of their effects on the human body, not all calories are processed equally. They come “packaged” in different foods, and how these foods are digested makes a huge difference in both how the calories are absorbed and how much they satiate your appetite. This means that the calories from sugary foods like cookies are instantly digested, converted into glucose, and absorbed into your bloodstream, causing your blood sugar levels to spike sharply. Your brain receives a huge surge of a feel-good chemical called dopamine. Then when your blood sugar levels drop as your cells absorb the glucose, you may feel jittery and anxious—the “sugar crash.” Prolonged consumption of sugar has been linked to a greater risk of depression. It leaves you metabolically handcuffed to your next meal or snack.
In contrast, when you eat salmon, your digestive system has to work to free the calories locked in the proteins and fat. The calories are released and introduced into your bloodstream slowly, over time. This keeps your blood sugar levels stable, and the fat keeps you feeling full and satiated.
Getting the majority of your calories from carbohydrates is unhealthy—but that’s exactly what too many Americans do. Concerning overall caloric intake, carbohydrates comprise around 55 percent of the typical American diet, ranging from 200 to 350 grams per day. The vast potential of refined carbohydrates to cause harmful effects is stunning: A greater intake of sugar-laden food is associated with a 44 percent increased prevalence of metabolic syndrome and obesity and a 26 percent increase in the risk of developing diabetes mellitus.6
Let’s be clear: Calories play a role, but it’s much smaller than people think. Calories, which are the measurement of potential energy, are calculated with an automatic buffer zone that’s conducted in a very controlled environment in a laboratory and does not factor in the body’s complex system. For example, a carbohydrate has 4 calories in the lab, but it can be 3 or 5 calories inside the body. It’s almost impossible to count calories from meals once those calories enter our digestive system.
The body isn’t a linear system, like the laws of thermodynamics; rather, it is an open system with several variables. It is a demand-driven machine, not a supply-driven machine. Hormones and inflammatory levels determine the demand. Hormones trump calories every single time. For example, when the energy sensors insulin and mTOR (mechanistic target of rapamycin) are activated from carbohydrates, our body turns on its anabolic state, which builds muscle and stores fat. When we eat more fat and fewer carbohydrates, our metabolism lowers insulin and mTOR and activates the sympathetic tone (healthy stress response) and autophagy (cell recycling). This signals the breakdown of body fat and muscle, and the body is now in repair mode. This is when fat-burning is activated, controlled by hormones not calories.
Recent studies have investigated the impact of fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) on weight loss, revealing intriguing findings. One study conducted a randomized controlled trial in which participants with obesity received FMT from lean donors while maintaining their caloric intake. Despite no significant changes in gut hormones such as glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1), which regulates satiety, recipients of the fecal transplant showed notable alterations in their gut microbiota. These changes were associated with a decrease in specific bile acids and increased microbial diversity, leading to modest weight loss and improved metabolic markers even without changes in diet or caloric intake.7, 8, 9
The key concept to remember, which we will return to many times in this book, is that we are genetically hardwired for the way our ancestors ate for thousands of years. Until very recently—really, just the past 50 years or so—the human digestive system was accustomed to a diet high in natural fats, fiber, and protein, and low in carbohydrates. This was the nutrient mix it successfully utilized. Sugar was in the form of fructose from fruit, which was bound up in fiber and took a long time to extract. Sure, our lifestyle is dramatically different from that of our ancestors. We no longer spend all day hunting for our next meal. However, our metabolism doesn’t recognize the difference between intentionally skipping a meal for intermittent fasting and experiencing a famine.
It’s time to stop distracting ourselves by focusing on calories in vs calories out. If you asked Warren Buffet, “How do you get rich?” and he answered, “Easy—spend less than you earn,” you wouldn’t feel good about his answer, would you? This is the same with doctors, dietitians, and fitness pros telling people to simply eat less and move more. Focusing on calories is the opposite of metabolic freedom. It distracts you from what really matters: hormones and cell metabolism.
2. Eat Lots of Small Meals All Day
As we’ll discuss later in the book, how often we eat is just as important as what we eat. For most of human history, food was available only intermittently during the day. When you were working in the fields, you couldn’t stop for a “snack.” You filled your belly at mealtime, worked for many hours, and then took another meal. It was common for healthy people to go without food for 12 hours or more at a time—typically from dinner until breakfast the next day. Food had to be rationed, especially during the winter when your food supply was limited to only protein and fat. There was nothing unusual about this; it was simply the normal routine. There were no refrigerators stocked with fresh food, no Taco Bell open at midnight, and no 24-hour restaurants. When the sun set, your outside labor ceased, and you rested until dawn.
Even though we are still genetically hardwired like our ancestors, today we see many health “gurus,” nutritionists, and dietitians advising people to practice portion control, cut calories, and eat every two or three hours. They say this strategy of “grazing” will help you lose weight and keep your metabolism “revved up.”
Are they right? Somewhat yes, but mostly no.
In the short term, this may appear to work, but in the long term, it has a 99 percent failure rate. Here’s just one problem with grazing: If you want to age faster than anyone else in your neighborhood, then eat every two or three hours. When you constantly consume calories, your body starts to duplicate its cells. This is great for a growing child but bad for a grown adult. Accelerated cell division is the essence of aging. You’ll learn later in the book about how your metabolism does not work in terms of speeds—it’s either efficient or inefficient.
Furthermore, many diseases start in the gut. If you’re grazing and constantly have food in your stomach, you’re not allowing your digestive system to rest. Some of the major contributors to digestive disorders like heartburn, indigestion, and food intolerance are underlying metabolic problems, including lack of enzymes, intolerance to foods, chemical toxicity, and chronic constipation. Many of these symptoms are caused by eating too frequently. Eating meals too often does not allow the body enough time to recuperate between meals and reload its enzyme pool. This can cause a lack of enzymes and hydrochloric acid in the stomach, leading to the development of digestive disorders with conditions such as acid reflux (heartburn), esophageal disorders and cancer, and food intolerance.10
In a fascinating study conducted at the University of Virginia, researchers took a group of college students and fed them 800 calories of pizza from a local restaurant popular with the students, and tracked how much stress this meal caused within the digestive tract. What they discovered was astounding. Fourteen hours after eating, this meal was not fully digested—and keep in mind that younger people typically have a faster digestive system!
When you eat meals frequently throughout the day, especially processed high-carbohydrate meals (typical SAD fare), it destroys the gut integrity at the tight junction—the level of the lining of the gut that affects how cells are held together.
In a healthy gut, cells are closely linked by structures called tight junctions. These junctions act like gatekeepers, letting nutrients pass through to the bloodstream while keeping harmful substances out. If the tight junctions are weakened or damaged, the gut lining becomes “leaky,” allowing unwanted particles—like bacteria, toxins, and undigested food—to pass into the bloodstream. This is often referred to as leaky gut syndrome.
This breakdown in gut integrity can lead to inflammation and trigger immune responses, potentially contributing to various health issues, including food sensitivities, autoimmune conditions, and metabolic problems.
What happens next? The liver becomes inflamed and then changes the hormonal cascade. The liver has a major role in the endocrine system. When you stress it, you can develop fatty liver syndrome very quickly. Fatty liver is when too much fat builds up in the liver, making it harder for the liver to do its job of filtering toxins and producing energy. This buildup can lead to inflammation and, over time, cause liver damage if not addressed. Inflammatory genes cascade through the entire system, the blood-brain barrier breaks down, the kidneys stop filtering well, and you become a sponge for toxins and inflammation. Chronic digestive stress leads to digestive and autoimmune disorders.
As you’ll learn later in the book when we cover ketosis, when you use fat as the primary fuel source, it burns very cleanly, as opposed to burning sugar, which is a “dirty” fuel source. Glucose burns quickly and easily, but it also burns dirty via excessive production of free radicals. Think of burning fat as a natural gas stove and burning sugar (glucose) as burning firewood. The gas stove burns clean with no smoke; the firewood creates massive amounts of toxic smoke.
Free radicals are highly unstable molecules with one or more unpaired electrons in their outer shells. They are formed from molecules via the breakage of a chemical bond, such that each fragment keeps one electron. They are produced either from normal cell metabolism or from external sources, including radiation, pollution, medication, and cigarette smoke. Since they can be either harmful or helpful to the body, they play a dual role as both toxic and beneficial compounds. But when an excess of free radicals cannot be removed, their accumulation in the body generates a phenomenon called oxidative stress. Excessive free radicals are the driving force behind inflammation, cancer, and accelerated aging.
Grazing promotes the production of free radicals, which in excess are harmful and promote aging. I receive a lot of backlash from the fitness community when I say that eating every two to three hours will age you faster, but it’s the truth!
The secret to perfect health is in mimicking the eating behaviors of our hunter-gatherer ancestors. Science is showing that intermittent fasting enhances the body’s resistance to oxidative stress and helps fight inflammation, another key driver of many common diseases.11 I will teach you more about the science and art of IF in Chapter 8.
In short, give your stomach a rest! Let it be empty for several hours a day, which aligns with the way your digestive system was created. This is the first step in going from bad health to good health and from despair to hope.
3. The Metabolism Needs Carbohydrates to Burn Fat and Function
This is false. You don’t need to consume glucose from carbohydrates in your diet. Your body makes glucose, and you get all the sugar you require by burning your excess body fat and from the protein you eat. The medical term is gluconeogenesis, and it is the metabolic process by which organisms produce sugars (glucose) for catabolic reactions from non-carbohydrate precursors. Essentially, your own body fat combined with amino acids from the proteins you eat keep blood sugars at homeostasis. The body uses insulin to tightly control blood sugar levels, so that at any given time, less than one little teaspoon of sugar is in your entire bloodstream. As the British Journal of Nutrition reveals, even with prolonged fasting, and drinking only water, blood glucose levels in the average healthy adult will remain stable.12
Proteins are a source of gluconeogenic substances, which under fasting or a low-carbohydrate intake can be used to produce glucose. High-protein (HP) diets are generally low in carbohydrates and are assumed to promote gluconeogenesis after a meal. Again, your body has all the glucose it needs to burn fat, so your metabolism doesn’t require additional carbohydrates.
4. One-Size-Fits-All Approaches
Most diets work—just not long term. I share this onstage often when delivering keynote lectures, which always shocks my audience.
When people first begin a weight-loss diet, they’re usually gung-ho, and it may be easy for them to make low-calorie meals or keep their refrigerator stocked with healthy food. But as the weeks and months drag on, their previous behavior returns. They see their diet as punitive and start to “cheat.” Or they think, “Great! I’ve lost weight. I should reward myself for enduring this torture.” To lose weight and enjoy good health, people need to make a total lifestyle change, not just follow a diet.
Diets have an end date. Your health is a lifelong journey.
Restrictive dieting often means going against your body’s stubborn instinct to maintain your weight. This trait evolved in humans from long ago when food was scarcer and took more effort to acquire. By cutting out foods your body craves—particularly fats—you’re fighting nature and setting yourself up for failure. If you’re told not to eat things that you like, for the first few days you can resist eating them. But then your primal brain will start taking over, and you’ll want what you can’t have.
We also all have different hormonal needs at different times of our lives, and our diet needs to sync up with this. As you’ll learn in the coming chapters, there’s an art to fat loss, which all weight-loss diets fail to teach. I’m going to educate you on how different hormones influence mood, satiety, and weight loss—and how to customize your nutrition to optimize these hormones. The magic happens when you find a lifestyle customized to your hormones. This brings me to the last fat-loss failure.
5. Relying on Willpower to Lose Weight
The fact that you’re reading this book suggests that you’ve decided to do something about your health. Perhaps you want to finally put an end to yo-yo weight loss. You may be worried about your symptoms becoming worse and leading to heart disease, cancer, or one of the other severe medical conditions linked to poor metabolic health. Maybe you want to set an example for your children, so they don’t have to experience the same suffering.
Unlike other methods, the Metabolic Freedom road map does not require willpower. Most people fail to achieve sustainable fat loss because they’ve had these bad habits for decades, and they have reasons they won’t give them up. It can also be hard when you choose to make changes and people inside your own home are not on board, not to mention when you go out to an event or a trip, which provides unique challenges to maintaining new habits.
The problem with most fat-loss plans is that they make you change too many things at once. This requires you to rely on willpower. Not only is this not sustainable, but also all these changes disrupt your household, because your partner sees the extreme, rapid changes you’re making, and they may not like it. What I have found while working with thousands of people across the world, is that when you have a dedicated, easy-to-follow plan, you can make a clean break from the past, without feeling deprived or requiring any willpower.
The 30-Day Metabolic Freedom Reset, which you’ll find in Chapter 12, is designed to help your household support you because there are no extreme changes being made. Most couples will support each other for 30 days, especially when it’s not an extreme plan. Maybe your partner will even join you.
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It’s time to let go of self-limiting beliefs and the five fat-loss failures that have brainwashed us and step into a new possibility. You have the power. Within every cell of your body is an ancient intelligence that no doctor, pill, surgery, or supplement can match. This journey will require you to believe you can do this.
Forget about the past, and any setbacks you’ve had. It’s not about the setbacks; it’s about the getbacks! I believe setbacks are setups for something great. It’s not your fault that you’ve been fed a handful of lies about your body. Let go of the past—it doesn’t serve you. Once you make this decision, you open a door of possibility beyond your wildest dreams.
Now it’s time to dive deeper into the heart of the matter: understanding how your metabolism actually works. This isn’t just science; it’s the blueprint that will empower you to take real, lasting control over your health. I’ve found that the more clearly we understand something, the easier it becomes to apply that knowledge in a way that’s meaningful and sustainable. And I’m confident this will be the same for you. When we truly understand our metabolism, we open the door to choices that restore balance, energy, and vitality.