If You Want to Lose Weight, You Don’t Need a New Diet—You Need a New Lifestyle

Technically, you already have a diet, which just refers to whatever it is you eat regularly. What you need is a change in eating habits that can help you reach your goals. For long-term fat loss, you want a diet you can actually follow without starving yourself or giving up your favorite foods.

How Does Dieting 101 Work?

Where most fat-loss diets tend to be extreme in terms of cutting calories or crossing foods off your menu, Dieting 101 focuses instead on the macronutrients—protein, fats, and carbohydrates—which are where the calories in food come from.

Why focus on macros? Because metabolism is about more than just calories in vs. calories out. The composition of your meals, i.e. how much of each macro you’re getting, plays a huge role in how your body handles those calories. Dieting 101 will teach you how to hack those variables by manipulating macro targets to spur your metabolism and lead to faster, more effective fat loss.