Talking to Jess the other day got me to thinking about how glad I am that I never got suckered into the whole “dieting” thing.
She, like me, was once Very Fat. In the dark years B.P. (Before Phil), poor girl tried everything normies try to fix it, putting in a metric tonne of effort, up to and including dragging her obese mother along to a weight loss group (figuratively and, at times, literally).
None of it worked, obviously. Indeed, some of the dietary trickery she engaged in actually fouled her relationship with food so deeply it caused problems years later when she was under my wing and otherwise doing things properly.
Example:
She went through a phase of avoiding veggies to “save up” calories to “spend” on junk food because “a calorie is a calorie”.
Speaking of calorie counting, I cannot say it ever made a whole lot of sense to me.
I remember thinking putting chicken breast, rice, and whatnot on the weighing scales so I could accurately “track” my food was a bit of a palaver the first (and last) time I did it. Later on, conversations with registered dietitians made me aware of just how dangerous a lot of the advice peddled by quack “nutritionists” and personal trainers is, potentially fomenting everything from full-blown eating disorders to bowl obstructions requiring surgery to psychotic breaks so severe they land you in a mental institution.
While I didn’t know it at the time, I instead adopted what I have since called a “Training First” approach.
At the most basic level, this involves, as the name suggests, sorting your training out first. Better dietary and lifestyle (sleep, stress management, etc.) choices are a natural byproduct, as you seek ever greater levels of performance in the gym and out on the road.
Weight loss happens, too, if it needs to happen (albeit at a much slower rate than if you do an extreme diet, measure every morsel that passes your lips, etc, etc, etc).
Better:
The weight stays off. Well, most of it anyways. And when it does creep back on (which it probably will), you’ll once again naturally make the tweaks you need to make to sort it out.
Anyway.
If you are looking for a routine that will complement a “Training First” approach, you will find it in November’s monster issue of The Phil Tyreman Letter.
You are getting “Operation: Winnow”, which is by far the most demanding and effective fat loss training protocol I have hitherto composed.
I will sell this issue as a standalone book at some point (sometime in spring next year, most probably). But when I do, it’s going to cost an awful lot more than what subscribers will pay.
Something else to consider is that I might (stress: might) be raising the price of a Phil Tyreman Letter subscription before the end of the year.
I’m aiming to avoid this (I don’t need to gouge my customers because almost all of them stick around, make multiple purchases, etc.), but if Rachel from accounts goes full socialist I will probably have to.
To avoid missing November’s bumper issue and a potential price hike, do thusly before the rapidly approaching deadline:
1) Visit the below URL,
2) Read the info and/or listen to the audio carefully to make an informed purchase,
3) Visit the secure checkout,
4) Pay,
5) Wait patiently for your bonus book and first newsletter to arrive.
Behold step 1:
https://philtyreman.co.uk/information/
Thank you,
Phil Tyreman