Weight loss isn’t easy. If it was, you wouldn’t be here yet here you are! Hello. This is a safe space. Relax, I’ve got you. First thing’s first, why do you want to lose weight? Is it because:

• You want to improve your health?
• You no longer feel comfortable in your own skin and want to regain a former or better self?
• You’re always tired and worried about what the future holds, unable to climb the stairs without being out of breath, unable to keep up with the kids and grandkids?
• You want to love yourself again.

Now, let me ask, do you really want to lose weight? Or would you rather lose body fat, improve your strength, become healthier and all of this WITHOUT cutting out the foods you love? It really is possible and I make it easy. But I have to be blunt with you, what I say might cut deep initially but it comes from a place of love. I want you to succeed and I believe that to be honest with ourselves, we have to be honest with each other and that means telling each other things we don’t want to hear.

I’m going to take care of your weight management journey, help you to lose weight easily, burn body fat effortlessly and learn how to do this without feeling rubbish and it’s so, so easy. I can’t stress how easy it is. But it means forgetting everything you’ve learned about weight loss so far. Poof. Is it gone? Don’t worry about it.

There’s just 6 steps to effortless weight loss and it all starts with you. You have to be ready and willing to make a change.

1. First, you need to get a picture of your current diet right now. This will let you know how far away you are from where you need to be, diet wise.
2. Next, you need to understand where you need to be to maintain a healthy, varied and balanced diet that’s an appropriate number of calories to maintain a healthy weight. For men, the recommended caloric intake is 2500 per day, and for women, its just 2000 calories per day and you already know, that’s not a huge amount of food!
3. Now, this is the MOST IMPORTANT bit. You must gradually reduce your caloric intake over time until you’re at your recommended caloric intake to maintain your weight. Trust me, if you are obese (per your BMI, with a high percentage of body fat), this alone will be enough to start losing weight but the weight loss won’t last forever. The reason why you lose weight as an obese person when you’re eating the recommended intake is because the heavier you are, the more calories you burn at rest to sustain the additional weight, the rate you burn calories at rest will reduce as your weight declines but there is a way to prevent this from occurring. We will talk about metabolism in other posts but it is crucial to fat loss to maintain an high metabolism; I’ll teach you exactly how to do this, just sign up to our newsletter at https://kickstart.andrewhillpt.co.uk.
4. You need to sustain this recommended daily intake of calories for men and women for at least a month or longer, until the cravings to overeat become easily manageable, this will enable you to form a positive habit.
5. Once you’ve formed the habit of eating only as much as you need to eat, you can now enter a controlled calorie deficit. This means you gradually reduce your caloric intake in exactly the same way as you did in step 3. You’ll maintain this deficit until you decide you no longer want to restrict your calories, and then you will start to eat normally again, in the same portions as you were in step 4.
6. When you decide to go again, you just do. And you do this every time you feel the need to until you’re at your target weight and body fat percent. If you find your weight creeping back up, you can simply start the process again, as many times as is necessary.

That’s the theory, but how do we apply it? The LEAF Method teaches you how to apply these six steps and takes it all the way back to basics. It gives you the tools you need, which we will share in upcoming posts, to lose weight and eliminate fat easily, sometimes in as little as 12 weeks!