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The diet industry built its own language, one that promises a lot and explains little. Here we talk about food and the body in plain words, so you can draw your own conclusions.
Diet language often uses words that promise a lot while leaving the details of daily life open. A convincing word does not yet explain what a claim means in your situation.
I chose a different path. Instead of selling with words, I first explain how a subject can be examined and let you draw your own conclusion. It is slower than a slogan, but clearer.
This is more than a style choice. It keeps observations, experiences and the limits of coaching separate.
Fat-burning and dream body are marketing language. Calorie deficit, however, is a concept about energy balance that can be discussed accurately without making it the whole explanation of a person. I don't base my coaching on calorie counting, but there is no need to deny the concept exists.
A useful question is what a claim means in ordinary life. What happens when rushing, sleep, availability and emotion affect eating? Clear language does not hide complexity in a slogan or blame a person because one formula did not hold.
Secret method, biohacking and superfood can sound like powerful words. For a reader, it is more useful to unpack what they promise and what daily life would actually require.
My way of speaking is practical here: I say what is known, what I have experienced myself and where a doctor's assessment is needed. I don't claim everyone changes in the same way or that one word can solve a relationship with food.
When a term needs a long explanation, an ordinary word may serve the reader better.
If you want to start with your own eating without the diet jargon, try the eater type quiz.
Behind the words
If you want to know who is behind these articles and where my own change began, I tell that story on my own page.