Stop Dieting & "FAT Burning" Exercise
The MEDIA is going NUTS. Their favorite topic—YOUR BODY—now tells everyone that they MADE YOU FAT. HOW did this happen? Even the Pharmaceutical Companies like Eli Lilly & Nova Nordisk tell you to do “diet and exercise.” Are they DUMB or DISHONEST? Do they know that “eating healthy” whatever that is today—and doing HIIT will retard weight loss! Both parts of their precious Wellness Mantra are WRONG. Why?
The “eat healthy + exercise hard” mantra sounds airtight because it treats your body like a simple math problem: Calories in − calories out = fat loss.
But bodies aren’t calculators. They’re adaptive hormone machines that respond to scarcity, stress, and routine—and they fight back when you push the wrong levers.
Why “diet + vigorous exercise” is NOT a weight-loss strategy
1) “Eating healthy” usually means FEWER calories, and typically bigger “portions” aka number of BITES; quantity is the focus.
People don’t eat less food—they eat more volume – MORE BITES--with fewer calories:
giant salads
“clean” bowls
lean protein + veggies
endless “healthy snacks”
So the stomach keeps getting trained for big intake.
Result: you’re still practicing increase capacity—just with “approved” foods.
2) Vigorous exercise raises the one thing fat loss does not love: stress signaling
Hard workouts are a stressor. Stress isn’t “bad”—but it’s a signal:
“We’re under load.”
“Protect energy.”
“Refill stores.”
So you get:
more hunger later (often delayed)
stronger cravings (especially at night)
more food focus (“I earned this.”)
Not because you’re weak—because your body is doing its job.
3) The body compensates: you “torch” calories… then unknowingly replace them
After hard workouts, people unconsciously:
eat more bites
snack more often
pour bigger portions
move less the rest of the day (“recovery mode”)
So the “calories burned” becomes a receipt you cash in with extra eating events.
4) Vigorous Exercise is fantastic for those who are not carrying extra pounds but terrible as a lever for fat loss
Exercise builds for bodies with waistlines under 35inches for men and 32 for women
strength
heart health
mood
insulin sensitivity
But it also builds particularly for the big waisted:
huge appetite
Permission to eat.
Compensation because you were “good”
So as a weight-loss plan, “torch it off” is a trap: you can out-eat a workout in minutes—especially with too many bites which alerts your stomach—the small container under your left breast—to STRETCH!
5) What actually changes fat storage long-term is what you practice daily:
Not the food label. Not the workout.
The repeated behavior that trains your stomach and appetite.
And that behavior is quantity.
The strategy that works: eat what you want, reduce QUANTITY
The rule: You can eat anything.
But you must stop training your stomach for “big.”
So you do two things:
Fewer bites per meal (80Bites.com)
Ideal target: under ~30 bites per meal
You stop before the “full” signal clicks because it won’t until your “full” has been trained! This is a trained setting.
Reduce the number of times you shove food in your mouth and EAT only meals.
3–4 eating events per day
No grazing. No “just a little.” No “healthy snacking.”
Because frequency is training too. Every extra eating event is another lesson to your body: “We eat all day.” We want to eat!!
The punchline
Diet + vigorous exercise is a strategy to feel virtuous and stay busy.
It is good for cardio and muscle development —but it doesn’t reduce fat because it doesn’t stop the real driver of too much quantity and too much activity.
Stomach training needs to reduce quantity and frequency.
So the fix isn’t “eat clean and burn it off.
The fix is: Eat whatever you want—don’t do “fat burning exercise.”
Gentle movements and mobility focus.
Fewer bites. Fewer meals. Smaller stomach expectation.
Of course as this TRUTH gets out there more the MEDIA will totally lose it because it comes at the same time as JAMA and hundreds of health institutions such as major hospitals and the American Heart Association etc. agree that the BMI is a fraud!! The BMI that was substituted for the Hamwi in 1985 so Americans could eat MORE. So this JAMA study that was published October 15, 2025 the mainstream media like the New York Times and the Washington Post have suppressed because what it says is we’re not 40% obese—we are 70% OBESE. There’s no way the media can spin this figure which is 75% greater than the figure they love. If they said the BMI is not adequate and you need to add waistline measurement and when you do that we’re not 40% BUT really 50% the media could probably keep publishing their regular wellness crap. But this is too dramatic a number The correct statistics means that America is in trouble. So bye bye diet culture. Today people hate the universally accepted MANTRA for weight loss—the beloved wellness formula!! They figured out that for some reason it doesn’t work. But it’s horrible to think of how many people—particularly women—have lost weight regained it and then dieted some more and done what they call FAD diets and then they went back to the Mother—the Church of Dieting—Weight Watchers—now WW!!
The body is smarter than you are. It’s way smarter than any diet creator or doctor. The body figured out that playing with food and exercise is not good and so it responds by NOT releasing FAT. The GUT hormones—Leptin; ghrelin; insulin; cortiso—see calories dropping and fat burning exercise and it signals TROUBLE. Cortisol rises and it won’t drop. It’s OK for the cortisol to rise, but it has to go back to 10-15. It stays at 30 and then that’s a disaster for insulin. Nobody is going to understand this unless they’re an endocrinologist, but did anybody really understand the calories in/calories out?? It just was a cute mantra that you could torture yourself with every time you took the stairs rather than the elevator.
The truth will set you free and enable your body to feel better so it will let go of FAT but not with an exercise and diet. Reduce the number of bites which may NOT reduce the number of calories. Are 5 bites of avocado the same as five bites of Kale?? Get it, now?



I always enjoy your passionate articles! I have recently shifted to time-restricted eating (TRE) as a way to simplify my life in perimenopause. With a heavy load of caregiving, child rearing, full-time work and my hormones shifting, this has been very helpful for me so far. I tried following all that lift heavy plus HIIT advice from famous wellness influencers, and like you say in this article - my cortisol rose even higher, I was exhausted all the time, and lost zero weight. My intuition tells me that pilates, walking, cutting out snacking, and limiting the time I eat is what will work best for me. I know that I could probaly drop the TRE and eat only 3 meals a day, but for me it's easier to deal with my obsession about food by following TRE for now. I am losing visceral fat and my clothing fits better now, even though the scale has not moved much. I am glad you continue to write about this issue, as most of us have been hoodwinked for decades. As an RN and someone who has eaten whole foods and had an interest in "alternative health" for 25 years, it's great to connect with people like yourself on this platform! Thank you!