Getting "pool ready" for summer has a formula, and it's not what you think...

Hey what’s up my friends,

Every year, this is about the time that people who hadn’t thought much about being seen in a swim suit, start panicking and trying to think of all the ways they can crush some fat loss for the Memorial Day party. Let me help you make sense of all the nonsense you’ll see out there.

Yes, you can take a GLP to help manage hunger while you essentially starve yourself. That will work. You’ll be smaller for sure, but you’ll look pretty much the same, only smaller. You’ll lose some muscle and some fat. Most recent research I saw today was 40% muscle loss (unless you’re actively lifting weights like you’re trying to put on muscle mass, and eating more than enough protein to support that endeavor). This will crush your metabolism, too. GLPs are a good tool, they are not the whole answer.

What works is swapping your saturated, land animal fat, for unsaturated plant & fish fats. Why does the type of fat matter? I’m so glad you asked. Unsaturated fats do a couple of things that saturated fats don’t. Keep in mind, I’m not referring to industrial seed oils, but natural oils like olive and avocado oils, nuts, etc.

1) They are a little more easy to burn than saturated fat. Because of their physical structure, they behave differently inside the body. This is why calories in, calories out is not the whole story.

2) They make you more insulin sensitive. Yes, you read that right. They help with metabolic repair.

3) If you overeat the oils themselves they will likely get flushed through your gut without being broken down at all, so they’re pretty safe to enjoy while you shred for the beach.

4) They are the only fat a body builder will consume during a “cut” for the stage. I would know, I’ve done in more than once.

The added benefit is that they will raise your HDL, and lower your triglycerides, which is the best indicator we have right now for how well your metabolism is doing. Take your triglyceride number, divide it by your HDL number. Ideally, we want that as close to 1 as we can get it. Any number over 2 and we have work to do. The further from 1 we are, the more of an emergent issue it is to fix.

All of our issues from aging are downstream of metabolic dysfunction and muscular decline. Both are fixable.

Reply to this email and let me know what questions you have about anything I’ve written here.

Until next week,

Alli 💋