
I won't gatekeep: The secret to fast fat loss is to go slow. 🤓
Slow Is Fast: Why Chasing Quick Results Keeps You Stuck
You’ve been taught to white-knuckle it for 12 weeks, step on the scale, and pray. Hard pass.
In this episode I make the counterintuitive case that slow, easy, sustainable fat loss is actually the fastest way to get and keep (!) the body changes you want.
We’ll unhook from the weekly weigh-in panic, ditch the “kickstart” chaos, and reorient around a boring-on-purpose process that slides into your real life and compounds over seasons.
I’ll walk you through how to detach from outcome (without giving up your goals). Why adherence, not heroics, wins. And how to build an imperceptible energy deficit by eating satisfying meals, sleeping like you mean it, and refusing to make food your full-time job.
Expect mindset rewires, practical guardrails, and a few spicy rants about scales, macros, and “just do another Whole30.”
If you’re tired of starting over, this is the episode that helps you quit quitting.
The paradox: why slow = fast (and fast usually backfires)
How obsessing over results nukes adherence and stalls progress
A better scoreboard than the bathroom scale
The case for seasons, not weeks, and what “on the path” looks like day-to-day
How to create a small, comfortable, imperceptible calorie deficit without tracking
Why “quick wins” are water weight (useful for morale, not a plan)
The only real “hack”: patience (and how to train it)
Timestamps:
00:00 Intro: Slow vs. fast fat loss
00:55 Why obsessing over results keeps you stuck
01:44 The myth of fast fat loss
03:25 Building the easy, sustainable approach
04:42 What most programs get wrong
05:40 Adherence and time horizons
07:13 Outdated diet rules we need to retire
14:34 The truth about quick wins (and water weight)
17:46 Why the scale is a terrible tool
23:30 The jacket that didn’t fit—then did
24:26 What “slow and steady” looks like in real life
24:52 Belief change > diet change
26:13 Patience as the only hack
27:42 Macro coaching and the hamster wheel
28:35 Eating for life, not for a phase
30:02 Rethinking expectations and measurements
30:50 Playing the long game (years, not weeks)
37:25 Dopamine: desire vs. control
39:12 Permanent results, measured backward
45:48 About The Metabolic Mentorship and Metabolic Reboot