Losing fat slowly makes sense. The idea is that through small reductions of calories we can avoid shocking our bodies into holding onto fat and instead gently coax it off over time. An attempt to fly under the radar of our starvation defenses, if you will.
It’s great in theory, but not so great in practice—millions of years of evolution mean the human body isn’t so easily tricked.
The fitness industry seems to hate the scale. You’ve probably seen headlines like “Don’t Be a Slave to the Scale!”, “Throw Away Your Scales”, or “The 500 Reasons Your Scales Are Useless”.
It’s sensational, but horrible advice. Fat loss is hard enough without throwing away the best tool we have for it.
The Holy Grail of modern physical culture is a well-defined set of abs. But even if you’re one of the few who ever see their abs, it’s normally temporary. What if there was a way to keep them?
