Rebel Weight Loss & Lifestyle

When I first started Code Red fourteen years ago, people lost weight much more slowly, and that's for two reasons: I was still learning, so the program wasn't as good as it is now I allowed people to eat one cheat meal a week I come from a bodybuilding background, and one cheat meal a week is what bodybuilders often do. But many average Americans don't work out consistently (or at all), and most are metabolically broken. (More importantly, you cannot out-train a bad diet, no matter how much you exercise.) What I eventually figured out is that a healthy, super fit bodybuilder eating one cheat meal a week is a completely different situation than an obese grandmother who can't get out of her recliner without help eating one cheat meal a week. It also became crystal clear that cheat meals led my clients to take one step forward and TWO steps back. Plus, once they started cheating, they couldn't contain it to just one meal. It turned into going off the rails completely. In this week’s new podcast, I’ll reveal ho