"Bryant, I want to know YOUR SECRET" 

How do you keep beer/wine/snacks in your diet and still have the body you do?

I know you enjoy your beer and chips, I just want to know how you do it so I can do it too. 

Anyone else ever feel like this?
Wanting your cake and being able to eat it too?

Of course, we all do...

Yesterday I met up with a friend who asked me this exact question...

To him and many others,  It makes no sense!

What is your SECRET I need to know!!

When I was training to compete on American Ninja Warrior I was young, cocky, thought I knew it all, and thought I was preparing in all the right ways to be at the top of my game for the show. 

I had all the energy in the world to train, my body was getting stronger and more agile (or so I thought), and I was eating healthy foods on top of not drinking ANY alcohol. 

I was doing all the things we are told are smart, healthy, and the right way to improve our fitness and yet something crazy happened... 

I hit a plateau and my results started going the opposite direction. 

Something that didn't make sense to me because I was doing all the right things. Wasn't I? 

A lot of my clients, who are in the prime years of their life, experience the same thing and can't seem to figure out what's going on either.

Sounds familiar, right? 

Fortunately as a fitness professional, I was able to take a step back...

Yo-yo dieting:  
A cycle of short-term changes in eating and activity. That leads to only short term benefits of weight loss or strength gains and results in landing in the same place or worse than when you started. 

Have you ever experience that with your diet or your workouts?

The first experience I had with Yo-Yo'ing results, was when I first started really working out in with Jay a friend/colleague/coach in High School. 

We'd meet up before lifeguarding every morning at 6am. 

He was older and more experienced with workouts than I was so I would follow the routines he had in place.

And I can remember being annoyed at how much stronger he was than me. 

Which of course means I pushed through the times I was at the gym with him, and then avoided certain exercises when I wasn't with him because I was embarrassed with how light the weight was that I was putting up by myself. 

Doing that led him to getting stronger and me staying the same or going...