I Never Count Calories
Jean-Pierre De Villiers
I help CEOs achieve real success with more energy, clarity, and fulfillment. With 20 years experience, I elevate leaders’ performance and profit while guiding them to a more purposeful & fulfilling life beyond business.
First of all, diet is a lifestyle.
Diet should not have an expiration date. I understand if you're going on holiday and if you have a wedding, but if you just want to be healthy, then don't put an expiration date on your diet.
It is a lifestyle. It is a choice. It's you choosing to say this Is what I deserve! This is who I am! I don't look or feel crappy because I eat crappy food. I look and feel amazing because my diet when it comes to food is amazing.
Now, I don't expect you and I will never expect myself to be militant because that is boring. Being militant is boring. Being regimented around food is boring.
Now here's the thing that you might not have expected from me. And that's, I've never counted calories in my whole life. And I had the greatest people and the greatest coaches and mentors tell me, that I need to count calories, but it just never felt right with me because I studied natural living. I study tribes and I always think to myself, Hey, if everyone in tribes and in natural environments in the jungle, the bush, the desert, if they were sitting there counting their calories, that would be very fucking weird. Well, I don't believe that in a natural environment, we're living in natural life, eating natural foods in their natural form that you should be counting calories. I think it's ridiculous.
But if you struggle to understand how much calories you're eating then I definitely recommend it because a lot of people, the reason why they don't change is that they have a lack of awareness. They don't understand. They're not aware of how much they're eating and very quickly, it just only within three days, you can count your calories and realize, Whoa, I'm eating way more than I'm consuming.
And it doesn't matter what you eat. If you are consuming more calories. Than what you're burning, there is always an excess calorie count and therefore you're gaining fat and you're storing calories every single day. There's gotta be a deficit and to come back to what I said before six out of seven days. There should be a deficit.
Allow yourself room to have a break, allow yourself room to make mistakes. What you eat calorie-wise must be burned off by the end of the day. Otherwise, if you eat 100 grams more than you need to, or you eat 150 calories more than you should have, you've just sabotaged everything that you've done in the gym, everything that you've done in your mind.
So when it comes to diet, it doesn't have to be an expiration date unless it's for a short term goal. And the goal is to make sure you're eating less than what you are burning because food is fuel at the end of the day. If there's fuel left in your tank. It becomes not fuel. It becomes fat. So make a choice. Am I going to fuel myself or fuel? Or am I going to fuel myself for fat?
We spoke about calories. Here's an easy way to keep your calories down. It consumes shed load of vegetables. Why? Because vegetables contain almost no calories. Stick to the leafy greens, stick to cauliflower, cabbage lettuce, green leaves, beans, broccoli, spinach, asparagus.
You can eat plates full of this food and still not go over. The amount of calories that you need to be keeping to not go over your calorie count for the day. But once again, I don't count calories. I just know. I know that I'm not eating more than I need to. I know that I'm not overdoing it because most of the food that I eat is natural food in its natural form.
If you're eating boxed food, if you're eating packaged food can food and even worse. If you're eating fast foods, you are struggling with that loss.
Join our community and get coached by JP. Best Life offer for only $1. Click here https://bit.ly/1dollarBESTLIFE