To Lose Weight, Focus on Eating More Fat
Ask most people how to lose weight, and they’ll start listing off foods they ‘need to cut out.’ No more chocolate. No pizza. No carbs. It’s a mindset that can turn dieting into a battle of willpower, one that, statistically speaking, most people lose. But on a recent episode of the Men’s Health podcast, bestselling nutrition author and coach, Ben Carpenter, offered up a different approach – one that makes weight loss feel less like a restrictive slog and more like a sustainable shift.
Instead of focusing on restriction, Carpenter, whose new book Fat Loss Habits focuses on sustainable weight loss strategies, suggests flipping the script. ‘A lot of people view diets from a very restrictive perspective – I need to abstain from this, I need to cut out that,’ he says. ‘But for some people, that approach backfires. The moment they “break” their rule, they go all in. I call it the “screw it” mentality: one cookie turns into the whole packet.
Excerpted from Men’s Health
