Outsmart your metabolism Make getting lean sustainable
Chris CiprianNutritional consultant specializing in fat loss
The hardest part comes after
Eight in ten gain it back within two years.
Twelve months — how long hunger hormones can stay elevated.
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There is no one size fits all or cookie cutter approach when it comes to losing fat and getting lean. Yes, the standard concepts will work for a while, but eventually everyone plateaus, and your results will come to a standstill. You are doing everything right, but it’s been weeks and the scale hasn’t budged.
That is where most people fail. The momentum is gone, you start questioning yourself, you lose motivation, and eventually you end up gaining it all back.
But it’s not your fault. You just didn’t know how to make the adjustments to keep that momentum going.
Everybody’s body is different. Our metabolism is dynamic, it is constantly adjusting. You are fighting against hundreds of thousands of years of human evolution. Your body doesn’t see your chronic calorie deficit as a diet, it sees it as a threat, a famine, starvation. And it fights back.
That’s where I come in, with over 25 years experience of fat loss strategies. I’ve learned through trial and error what works and what doesn’t work. I know when to pull the levers, and when to back off.
The key is not to force fat loss, but to outsmart your metabolism, so the fat comes off and stays off.
The offer
I am currently all booked up.
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Fifteen chapters in a deliberate order. Build the body first, then what to eat, then when to eat it, then how to make the whole thing survive real life.
The book is the mechanism. Coaching is the mechanism applied to you.
In development
My own strategies, working for you every day. It analyzes the trends, makes the adjustments, and keeps you accountable.
It is being built now. The coaching does not wait for it.
The build
Same food, different sequence, different result. What you put on the plate matters. So does what you reach for first.
A blueprint diagram of a dinner plate holding steak, broccoli and a potato, labelled in eating order: protein first, then non-starchy vegetables, then carbohydrate last.
Proof of concept
These are my own progress photos, not a client's. Same person, same method, adjusted layer by layer. Results that stay.
Estimated body fat
30% 12%
Estimated lean muscle
+18 lb
Where you start
What works for one person may not work for the next. Activity, calorie needs, training and your own metabolic response all change what you need. Body type is the quickest way to show that the differences are real.
Now the part everyone skips. Everybody’s dietary requirements are different. Some “mesomorph” fitness influencer on YouTube telling you — the endomorph — that you need to eat carbs six times a day to ignite your metabolism is not giving good advice to someone struggling just to keep the fat off, or to someone with insulin resistance. There is no one-size-fits-all, cookie-cutter approach. A good coach evaluates the individual client’s needs, takes their history into consideration, and works out where their metabolism currently sits before making the appropriate adjustments.
About
I struggled with my weight when I was young. Back then we didn’t know what we know today. Commercials on TV showed sugary cereals and claimed they were part of a well-balanced breakfast. Fast forward to my early twenties: I started resistance training regularly, and I never stopped — until I had to.
I injured my spine, was diagnosed with “degenerative disc disease” and was disabled for a while. Barely able to stand up straight or walk, I spent most of my days in bed, sedentary. I lost a great deal of muscle and gained a significant amount of unhealthy fat. Losing what I had spent most of my life working for put me into a depression.
After a few years of feeling sorry for myself, insecure about what my body had become, I knew it was time to start over. I was 217 pounds, completely untrained with zero muscle. In one year, applying all of my accumulated fitness and nutrition knowledge, I transformed to 165 pounds with single-digit body fat and plenty of lean muscle. That is a 40-something-year-old man breaking through plateaus, not some young twenty-something.
I am living proof that my system works, and the before and after photos of my most recent full body recomposition will attest to that. It also inspired me to help others who have struggled with their weight.
I understand that it is not your fault that you struggle with your weight — the deck is stacked against you. Foods in this day and age are not natural. They are designed by food scientists in a laboratory with the main objective to make you over-consume their product for profit. They analyzed the psychology behind food triggers and dopamine responses to get you hooked. The human body is not designed to eat highly refined processed foods and insulin-spiking sugary beverages.
That is where I come in. I’m not gonna give you a meal plan. I am going to teach you how to make the right choices. I am going to teach you how to substitute certain foods into your life that will create sustainability and calm that subconscious urge that the evil food scientists are trying to hook you with. I’m going to teach you how to eat your food so that it satisfies you and you are not hungry an hour later. I am going to teach you portion sizes so that you know how to judge and regulate your food intake instinctively.
I have spent half my life hands-on with fitness and nutrition. While most men over 50 try to cover up their gray, I wear mine as a badge of honor. They are the stripes on my shoulder, a symbol of wisdom — something that can’t be taught, only experienced through the hard lessons of success and failure.
In my time I have seen it all: fad diets, 30-day challenges and miracle fat burners. Through all of the outdated science and social media influencers I have found, by trial and error, which systems work and which ones are hype. I will analyze your data, recognize the trends and strategically pull the appropriate levers at the right time to not only break through fat loss plateaus, but to make sure that they never happen in the first place.
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