Alex Solomin

I was 365 pounds and pre-diabetic. Yesterday I spent 90 minutes with a room full of people who are eating less than I ever did and getting nowhere.

Somewhere in the middle of it, one person said this:

“It's not me. I've hurt myself by not eating.”

One woman wrote that she feels like her metabolism is broken now, something snapped and it's her fault.

Here's what I told them, and it's the thing almost NOBODY says out loud.

Your metabolism isn't broken...it adapted.

You spent years eating less and less and moving more and more, and your body did exactly what it's built to do. It slowed down. It held on to everything you gave it. That's not a malfunction, that's survival, and it means it's fixable.

And the fix isn't another restriction. It's finding the floor you should be eating every day instead of the ceiling you've been scared to go over. Protein first. Walk instead of grinding out cardio you hate. And when a bad day happens, get back on track within 24 hours instead of deleting the whole week

One person on the call has been down 44 pounds doing that. Another came in a type 2 diabetic and is practically off his medication completely

I recorded the whole thing. If you want the replay, comment RESTART and I'll send it over. 👇

Your metabolism didn't break.

It adapted to exactly what you gave it.

Underfeed your body for years and it does the same thing your phone does at 10 percent.

It starts rationing what's left.

It slows everything down to survive on what little you're giving it.

That's why your energy is gone before the day is half over.

That's why the things that worked before have stopped working.

Nobody looks at a phone on 10 percent and decides to use it harder.

They plug it in.

On Sunday, August 9 I'm walking through how we bring a body back out of that mode, step by step.

It's live at 3PM ET and runs about 90 minutes.

Reply 'ME' below and I'll send you the link to save your seat.

For years, every time the scale stopped moving, I did the same thing.

I ate less.

Cut a meal. Drop the carbs. Add another hour of cardio. Whatever it took to lower that number.

So I kept eating less and less. I was hungry all the time. Cold. Exhausted. Dragging through the day on almost nothing.

And the scale barely moved. Then it stopped completely.

So I figured I just needed to cut even more. That's the logic, right? Eat less, lose more.

I was 365 pounds and I genuinely believed the problem was me. That I didn't have enough discipline. That something was broken in my body that wasn't broken in everyone else's.

Then I found out the truth, and it made me angry it took so long.

My metabolism wasn't broken... it was protecting me.

Years of eating next to nothing had trained it to slow down and hold onto everything I gave it. The less I ate, the tighter it held on.

I wasn't eating too much. I'd been eating too little, for too long.

The day I started eating more, the right way, was the day the weight finally started coming off. I lost 135 pounds doing the opposite of what I'd forced myself to do for years.

I'm sharing exactly how in a free live workshop this Sunday. I'm showing you exactly why eating so little backfires, and how eating more is what finally gets the scale moving again.

It's happening this Sunday 3pm ET, live on Zoom. 90 minutes.

If any of this felt familiar, you should be in the room.

Reply 'ME' below and I'll send you the link to save your seat 👇