21/03/2026
You can out train a bad diet but…
Fitness Coaches using the term… you can’t out train a bad diet
Well actually You can… but there’s nuance
When it comes purely to WEIGHT LOSS… YOU CAN!
If for example you spent 90 days eating 1000 calories from doughnuts, and 1 glass of 200 calories wine every single day for 90 days, you would lose a considerable amount of weight
Most people BMR is more than that
A female who weighs 62kg, is aged 40, and is 170cm in height…
Their BMR is 1,322 cals per day…
Without any movement at all, or exercise.
What that means?
Energy balance is what matters for fat loss bar none!
But for everything else…
How you look, change shape, feel, perform, recover, your health long term
The quality of the food and the exercise MATTERS
A super low calorie diet like this from low quality nutrients you’ll get from Donuts and Wine alone…
These two things are awful for nutrition value, everything else will suffer
But there’s a positive message in here somewhere. It means you don’t have to live like a Nunn or a Monk in abstinence from the foods you enjoy.
You CAN plan your favourite foods within your day, week, month and still achieve results.
So fitness trainers are absolutely right to suggest you can’t out train a bad diet, but that means for overall health, how you feel, look, and perform.
I love coaching people out of thinking a transformation has to be HARD, PAINFUL, INTENSE, TOO MUCH SACRIFICE.
The beauty of the transformation game is there’s literally millions of ways to get people into a calorie deficit.
Instead of having a one size fits all approach like Carnivore, Paleo, Slimming World, Juicing, No Carb before Marbs restrictive process, I love the fact I get to give people the understanding they can choose approaches they’d be most on board with, and all I help do as a coach is facilitate everything to make it work for the clients to get results…
Bring ALL aspects of health and fitness, and body composition to their results, while also giving clients the best adherence because they’re on board with an approach that suits them for their life!
