New Rules of Clean Eating -- #8

New Rule #8: For successful weight control, focus on compliance to a calorie deficit, not just compliance to a food list.


Dietary compliance doesn’t just mean eating the right foods, it means eating the right amount of food. You might be doing a terrific job at eating only the foods “authorized” by your nutrition program, but if you eat too many “clean” foods, you will still get fat.

On the fat loss side of the health-body fat paradox, the quantity of food is the pivotal factor, not the quality of food. If fat loss is your goal and you’re stubbornly determined to be 100% strict about your nutrition, then be 100% strict about maintaining your calorie deficit.