A new podcast: Fit 2 Fat

I've discovered a new podcast. Fit 2 Fat radio is a podcast that champions slow and maintainable weight loss by 'eating like a thin person' I've been listening to a few episodes and am really liking the message that the guys are putting across.

It's the antithesis of crash dieting; the yo-yoing of rapid weight loss, followed by gain, followed by loss again. It basically shortcuts the whole dieting process and gets you to calculate the maintenance calories of 'the thinner you' and start eating them now - basically introducing a moderate calorie deficit and exercise routine with view to slot and long term weightloss. This has a few benefits:

• It's not a Diet. You are eating like the thinner you, and will be for the rest of your life regardless whether you've reached your goal and become that person or not. Once you wrap your head around this, and if you can accept and get used to this, there will be no rebound once you reach goal weight. 
• You lose weight slowly and at a safe rate (<1% of weight per week)
• It avoids the metabolic suppression affect of unhealthy/rapid weight loss
• Suggests switching focus to body composition when near goal, a much healthier approach then a scale obsession (which I maaay just have right now)

I find most interesting people's resistance to increasing calories once they plateau or get near goal, and their need for 'quick fix' all-or-nothing approach to weight loss that is the cause of yo-yo dieting woes. It's definitely a behaviour I recognise from my, albeit brief, yo-yo dieting past.

Definitely recommend checking it out. Also try out the Fit 2 Fat tools. They've got some great calculators on there.

> Visit Fit 2 Fat radio

> Try out the Fit 2 Fat tools