How to eat intuitively without losing your mind

How I stay in shape year round

Most weight management strategies are ass because they aren’t built with you in mind. You a unique, 1 of 1 specimen with your own biology, schedule, circumstances, and history. You have your own pitfalls, strengths, preferences, and levels of activity.

Most of the time, you are trying to force a hotdog into an auxiliary jack, which is surprisingly, useless.

As you go down the self-improvement rabbit hole, you’ll hear the same thing over and over. “You need to find what works for you.” Which is true (although not particularly helpful).

Think about it like this. Yes, you need to build your own plan, do your own research, and find something you can personally sustain. But I’d almost guarantee that this roadmap won’t come from one single source, which is exactly what everyone wants. Unfortunately, one person’s (complete) playbook cannot be another’s.

But that doesn’t mean pieces of their plan won’t work for you, which is exactly why I’m writing this.

Fear not, all of these little things you’re doing to learn and educate yourself are not useless. You simply need to stop treating the podcast, the YouTube video, the book, the article, as scripture. It won’t be. Individually, in the short term, each of these does nothing.

But over time, something interesting happens. These little nuggets of information compound. They combine to form something meaningful. A piece here, a piece there. Get rid of this, add that. Over and over and over, like a little thief.

You try a weight loss strategy, it doesn’t quite work, but you keep one thing you liked. You try something new, it fails, but again, you keep a piece. You keep pulling rubber bands from the metaphorical self-help bag and adding them to your personalized rubber band ball.

And eventually, all those little nuggets form a beautiful amalgamation that’s yours. Your system. Your protocol. Your “what works for you.”

This essay is my rubber band ball. Simply what works for me. My hope is that somewhere in here is a rubber band that belongs in yours.

This is how I manage my weight. How I gain weight (muscle), maintain it, and lose it all without counting calories.

Shall we?