The Best Diet to Lose Weight

The Best Weight Loss Diet Plan in 2024

We’ve all been there, right? We’ve had someone tell us how much weight they have lost on a specific diet? And then someone the next day tells you that diet is no good and that this diet is better.

It's rather confusing with all these different diets floating around to decide which one is best for fat loss.

Keto?

Carnivore?

Vegan?

Clean eating?

Intermittent fasting?

Macro counting?

72-hour fasts?

Some may have been successful with keto because of the increased amount of fat and protein intake, where the digestion of these two nutrients is so slow that by the time the person was hungry again for their next meal, they may have already been getting ready to go to sleep?

Some may have been successful with carnivore because of not only the increased amount of protein, which is going to keep you nice and full, but also from the increased amount of time it takes to eat that much meat in a day. I don’t know about you, but I don’t have the time nor the patience to eat a steak every single day.

What about vegans? Why are some so successful with this diet? Maybe because of all the fear mongering from watching Netflix documentaries has caused the person to limit themselves to a small amount of ingredients.

What about clean eating? Well assuming you are defining clean eating as eating whole nutrient dense foods and aren’t defining it as you washing your chicken breast with dawn’s dish shop, some may be successful with this because of the increased amount of fiber, fruits and veggies, where the person may not feel hunger nor the desire to eat more food

We can go on and on here and continue to speculate as to why some see success with a given diet and others do not.

But there is one important thing that all of these diets have in common (if they are done correctly), they all have the potential to yield a calorie deficit.

There’s enough evidence and good information out there that we all should know by now that a calorie deficit is what is needed in order to drive fat loss. How you drive this calorie deficit is up to you.

You can do it have restricted your meal timing to an 8 hour window through intermittent fasting so there’s not enough time in the day to binge or over consume a bunch of calories

You can starve yourself for 72 hours, where you may only lose in theory around 2-3lbs of fat.

Don’t believe me?

Ok, let’s do the math.

 Assuming the 3500-calorie rule. In theory, 3500 calories is around of 1lb of body fat. If your maintenance calories are 3500 calories you took that amount away for 3 days, in theory you may lose up to 3lbs. But most people aren’t maintaining their weight at around 3500 calories. Let’s say your maintenance calories are 2200

Over 3 days, that’s 6600 calories. If we divide that by the 3500 (because remember 1lb of fat = 3500 calories), that would be 1.89lbs. Only 1.89lbs lost if your maintenance calories are 2200.

I know the scale typically says more for those who are promoting this intervention, but I promise you most of that is just water that they will put back on once they start eating food again.

You can count your macros and restrict your calories, where you eat what you like in moderation, but you ensure you don’t go over your daily budget for the day. Kinda like a chequing account, right? If you overspend at lululemon, you’ll go broke. Staying within your budget is important so you don’t go broke.

Now I am bias here and encourage most people to count their macros if they are trying to lose weight. That doesn’t mean this is the best intervention for everyone. But after coaching for over 10 years now, this is the most sustainable method that I have seen to date.

Now that’s not to say you have to adopt this method. IF you want to implement a keto diet, then go for it. If you want to eat clean, be my guest. If you want to starve yourself for 3 days, well… yea. Have fun with that.

But there are 3 psychological needs that need to be met in order to sustain motivation. Be sure to check out the video below to learn more about this.

At the end of the day, pick an intervention that you can stick to as easily as possible, If you can see yourself adhering to a protocol 5 years from now, then that’s the protocol for you. Because this is a lifestyle my friends. Fat loss typically doesn’t occur all in one go, we all have things come up in our life that derail our plans, a wedding, a trip, we get emotional drained, then it’s summer so on and so on. Your timeline rarely goes according to plan, and I promise you that this journey will take you longer than what you expect.

So, pick a plan that you can easily see yourself sticking to for the next 5 years.

Hope this was helpful

Coach Krys