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Fit, Healthy And Happy Podcast

776: Why Your Diet Isn’t Working (And What to Do Instead)

Fit, Healthy And Happy Podcast

Colossus Fitness

Fitness, Health & Fitness

4.9572 Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2026

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

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Why does your diet keep failing, even when you feel like you’re “doing everything right”? In this episode, we break down the real reasons most diets fail, why restriction backfires, and how to build a sustainable way of eating you can actually stick to for life.


We talk about diet consistency, long-term fat loss, and why constantly jumping between keto, carnivore, fasting, and the next trendy diet is keeping you stuck in the all-or-nothing cycle. If you’re tired of starting over every Monday, binging on weekends, or feeling lost at social events, this episode is for you.


You’ll learn how to stop relying on motivation, simplify your nutrition, build repeatable habits, and create a realistic approach to healthy eating that works in real life, not just on paper.


We talk about diet consistency, long-term fat loss, and why constantly jumping between keto, carnivore, fasting, and the next trendy diet is keeping you stuck in the all-or-nothing cycle. If you’re tired of starting over every Monday, binging on weekends, or feeling lost at social events, this episode is for you.(0:00) - IntroWhy your diet is failing:1- Focusing on short-term restriction instead of long-term habits & trend hopingCutting calories too aggressively-keto, carnivore, fasting, etc2- Being obsessed with everything needing to be new and excitingYou’re better off having a bunch of great staples you can rely on consistentlyThe best ways of eating come from finding the staples and working around thatSame breakfast everyday for 3+ years3- Unsure how to navigate social eventsSome people go off the deep end and eat everythingOthers think they can’t do anything and have to say no to social events4- You haven’t asked yourself: what’s a way of eating I could stick to for the rest of my life?You go through too many different dieting phases5- You consistently feel the need to start over/have an all or nothing mindsetMonday is always a reset day after 2-3 days of binging and bad eatingTreat the weekend like the week day. Have food prepped, make good choicesIf you slip up, you tend to make it worseJust focus on being consistent and learning from mistakes/getting right back on track6- You aren’t prepared.Some weeks you grocery shop, others you don’t.You can absolutely find ways to make it work, but lack of preparation makes it 10x harder7- You don’t have supportApply for coaching www.colossusfitness.comThanks for listening! We genuinely appreciate every single one of you listening.➢Follow us on instagram @colossusfit➢Apply to get your Polished Physique: https://colossusfitness.com/

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is the time of the year where a lot of people need to hear this.

0:02.9

Some people don't like to admit it.

0:04.3

It's never fun to admit your failures.

0:06.2

It's actually not adding nutrition on top of it or dining on top of your life.

0:10.6

It's integrating it in your life.

0:12.3

Whereas those other people who are just trying to do it for a short-term thing,

0:15.4

they're starving for four weeks.

0:17.1

You're just destined to fail.

0:18.4

It's not going to work.

0:32.2

What's going on, everybody? Welcome to the fit, healthy, and most of all, happy podcast.

0:40.4

I am your coach and host Josh here with his co-host and co-coach KG and i'm in the house and we're going to be talking about why your diet isn't working and don't worry we're going to tell you what to do instead

0:45.4

this is the time of the year where a lot of people need to hear this so take it away kyle honestly

0:50.5

i find that the most amount of conversations I have and when I have these conversations

0:55.6

of the people who are just trying to get better, a lot of them just say, I tried to do something

1:00.1

and it didn't stick. I did something for a week, but I couldn't stick to it. Or last year,

1:05.2

I did this and then I just started to struggle. And some people are honest with it. Some people

1:10.5

don't like to admit it.

1:11.4

It's never fun to admit your failures, but I find that when you can see what doesn't work,

1:16.1

it allows you to figure out what does work, right? And the first and most important thing that I

1:21.3

find is like holding people back is just simply focusing on the short term, focused on short term

1:26.5

restriction and just trend hopping.

1:29.3

Now, there will always, and there have been consistently new diets that have come out day

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