Now I think most of my audience and followers know Kitty Blomfield.  She’s my no BS metabolic bestie who rants on and on about getting off the restrictive diet hamster wheel, so you can build a body you love.  Well, Kitty and her super duper business partner and life partner, Craigh McDonald, have coached hundreds of people through their win at life program.   Now if you listened to my interview with nutritionist, Kira Sutherland and how to apply nutrition research into practice, you will know that most research studies are done for only 6 weeks and for us practitioners who have worked with clients over long periods of time and poured over months of food logs, we would argue that the data we have collected on sustainable weight loss is definitively more relative. Craigh and Kitty have coached hundreds of women through their program.  Hundreds of women have put in their weekly data of food and subjective measures, not just weight loss, but health measures and they have achieved phenomenal weight loss transformations.  And so I had to have Kitty and Craig on the show to get the low down on healthy sustainable weight loss and what it takes to get off the diet merry go round and build a body you love. Now, Kitty and Craig have their next break free challenge coming up and enrolments close 27th of September.  So if you would like to have the amazing experience of working with them on your food and exercise for four weeks, so that you can break free from restrictive diets and build a body you love, please click here to join the waitlist. https://www.nustrength.com.au/bfc-waitlist   And if you got something out of this episode, please let us know.  Share your thoughts on instagram and tag me at @leilalutz as well as @kittyblomfield and @iamcraigmcdonald.   In this episode we discuss: Why 12 week challenges on extreme caloric deficits appears to work at the time but are not sustainable Metabolic Adaptation and what it happens The difference between surviving and thriving Weightloss vs Optimisation How to get back to eating a healthy amount of food The importance of a food diary and data What your body down regulates Measuring your worth and success by a number on the scale Binge eating  How Kitty and Craig work out BMR using the data from their clients What about science studies? Being your own scientific study. The importance of consistency, tracking, testing and measuring. How long do you have to track for? Intuitive Eating and why it doesn’t work for a lot of people. Fat loss is stressful Why you have to go so low in calories to lose weight? You have to earn the right to do a caloric deficit The importance of meal planning, food prep and logging See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.