As you may or may not know, I’ve been involved in fitness for the past 10 years or so and I get emails each week for specific fat loss nutrition answers. I enjoy your email and it’s a highlight of my day to chat with you but I also get EXTREMELY FRUSTRATED with many emails I receive. Just yesterday I got an email from someone who asked if they should cut their carbs in order to lose more fat.

I didn’t answer…almost.

I usually DO NOT answer these emails and instead direct you to one of my articles or posts here on my blog so you can answer the question yourself (which will also test how serious you are ). To be honest, unless I know this person personally, I usually don’t answer these types of emails BECAUSE unless you are MEASURING what you are doing nutritionally, there is NO ONE-MINUTE CHANGE THAT WILL MAKE A DIFFERENCE.

My advice would be useless because none of the other nutrition variables in your program are CONSTANT so you would have no way of measuring if this one-minute change actually worked or not. Answering your question becomes a waste of time for me and asking your question becomes a waste of time for you.

I really do want want to see you build your best body so I do answer them but in a way that is more helpful because this person is asking the wrong question! Unless you show me EXACTLY what you have been eating EVERY DAY for the past month and unless you have a way of controlling EVERY VARIABLE for the next month or so (to a realistic compliancy) then we have no way to determine if “dropping carbs” actually made a difference or not.

Here’s The Simple Truth

Simple truth: you probably have no idea what you’re eating. You’re not alone, 98% (or more) of the population is in the same boat. That leaves only 1-2% of the population that actually have desirable, attractive and healthy physiques. I’m assuming you want to be one of them since you’re still with me?

You may be applying “nutrition health tips” found in magazines like eat more protein, eat more frequently, get more fiber, eat veggies with every meal and all those other great tips. And if you’re getting the results you’re after and look and feel the way you want then you don’t have a problem.

Keep doing what you’re doing and rock on! If you ARE NOT, however, this is a major problem we can solve TODAY.

Here’s Why Meal Plans WORK

Let’s say you follow a meal plan 80% of the time. So if there are 5 meals per day, 7 days a week, then you have 35 meals to adhere to. You follow it 80% of the time meaning you eat 28 of the 35 meals. Not bad at all.

But what do you do if step on the scale after one week and nothing changed?

Maybe you need a new diet plan? Maybe you need to drop the calories? Maybe there is something wrong with the plans? Surely, this must be the case.

Wrong! The solution is simple.

***Follow the meal plans better than you did last week.***

Aim for 85% compliancy.

Just like you try to lift an extra 5 pounds with your weights or do an extra rep, you should be applying the same principle of PROGRESSION to your nutrition. When you start getting closer to 90% compliancy, I promise you’ll be standing out in EVERY crowd.

Without following the plan and knowing what you are eating you have no way of making improvements and are a victim of winging your nutrition and hoping the fat might magically come off.

Following A Meal Plan Is NOT For Everyone

There is no shame in admitting if this sounds too intense for you. Not everyone is meant to have a perfect body and not everyone is as committed to their health and fitness as others. I’m the last one to point the finger here! The only shame is believing that you’re doing “everything right” when you’re clearly not even coming close.

The reality is that if you are not following any sort of meal plan right now and were to FOLLOW the Empowered Nutrition meal plans just 20% of the time and gradually complied more and more, you would easily and quickly start losing that next 10, 20 and 30 pounds of stubborn fat.

Your body will be in better HORMONAL BALANCE which will boost the fat burning hormones within your body so you can get into the best shape of your life – inside and out.

I think you know what you need to. You need to take advantage of the most powerful resource you can ever invest in. Here’s what you’re going to do now:

1. Download the meal plans:
–> http://BellyFatBurning.com/Recommends/Empowered

2. Use the calculator to figure out which plan to start with.

3. Print off the first week and start your first healthy meal TODAY. Not tomorrow, not next week, not in a few months. Today. Now is the time. Go get started and I can’t wait to hear about your results!