Celebrity Trainer Reveals His Weight Loss Playbook And Why Cutting Carbs Might Be Hurting Your Goals with Harley Pasternak

Dhru Purohit Show

Dhru Purohit

Medicine, Health & Fitness, Alternative Health

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🗓️ 13 August 2025

⏱️ 77 minutes

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This episode is brought to you by Fatty15, Levels, and Ollie. When it comes to diet mistakes and fad diets, social media is full of trends and extreme ideas. But what works, stands the test of time, and is sustainable in the long run? Today’s guest shares his experience and top tips without leaving you feeling deprived. Today on The Dhru Purohit Show, Dhru sits down with celebrity trainer and evidence-based educator Harley Pasternak to discuss the biggest diet mistakes he’s seen with his clients. Harley shares his controversial take on cutting out entire food groups and following overly restrictive diets. He also breaks down the top reasons why people overeat, introduces his PATH protocol, and explains the success his clients have experienced using it. Plus, Harley reflects on how his views have evolved over the years and highlights the research that now supports his current beliefs on sustainable weight loss and healthy living. Harley Pasternak is the author of six popular diet and fitness books, including the New York Times bestsellers The Body Reset Diet and The 5-Factor Diet. He holds a Master of Science degree in exercise physiology and nutritional sciences from the University of Toronto and an honors degree in kinesiology from the University of Western Ontario. He is an adjunct professor at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto. Harley Pasternak lives with his wife and two children in Los Angeles. In this episode, Dhru and Harley dive into: Breaking down the biggest diet mistakes (00:24) Why removing carbs from our diet is detrimental to our health (2:31) The PATH protocol (20:35) Excess fat consumption and how to balance calories in and out (25:05) Why are we overeating? (37:41) Harley's carb hierarchy (47:36) Things Harley changed his mind on (56:15) Harley’s perspective on health: the art of moderation (1:05:59) Toxin exposure, social media, and living an active lifestyle (1:09:09) Final thoughts and takeaways (1:14:18) Also mentioned in this episode: THE CARB RESET: Store Less Fat, Burn the Rest, and Harness the Power of Carbs to Lose Weight For more on Harley, follow him on Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn, or visit his Website. This episode is brought to you by Fatty15, Ollie, and Levels. Fatty15 is offering an additional 15% off its 90-day subscription Starter Kit. Go to fatty15.com/dhru and use code DHRU to replenish your C15 levels for long-term health. Right now, Levels is offering my listeners an additional 2 FREE months of the Levels annual Membership when you use my link, levels.link/DHRU. Make moves on your metabolic health with Levels today. Want to give your dog the best in clean eating? Take the online quiz and introduce Ollie to your pet. Right now, Ollie is offering 60% off your first box of meals when you subscribe today! Just head to Ollie.com, use the code DHRU and you’ll get 60% off your first box of meals in your subscription. Sign up for Dhru’s Try This Newsletter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Harley, welcome to the podcast, brother.
0:02.3	Thanks for having me.
0:03.2	I want to start off with something that I think will be super helpful for our audience.
0:08.3	You have some pretty nuanced and maybe for some people some controversial takes when it comes
0:15.4	to the topic of diet and especially weight loss.
0:19.6	I'd love to start there by asking you, give us a few of your biggest diet mistakes that you
0:26.9	regularly see as a celebrity trainer and evidence-based educator that's in this space.
0:33.3	I would say short-term goals that have long-term compromise.
0:38.0	So doing something that's not sustainable where you remove entire food groups or a food group
0:42.4	for hopes of short-term gains that are going to give you long-term negatives.
0:48.3	What's an example?
0:48.9	An example is cutting out carbs as one,
0:51.7	cutting out entire food groups like grains or certain fruits or you'll see books
0:58.2	written where you have to, half the vegetables are toxic and they're bad for you without
1:02.4	any scientific basis. So I think that's one thing I see where people are a little extreme in a way
1:07.5	where they're doing something short term, whether it be a fast or a cleanse or
1:12.3	something that is really, really short form. I think that's a big one for me. Another one is
1:17.9	over dependence on a certain ingredient or supplement. So, you know, people will lean too hard on a
1:24.7	one powder or a pill or a capsule or one food thinking that there's
1:28.9	such a thing as a superfood. I think that's a challenge. And I think overcomplicated meal plans
1:37.1	where there's, you know, I remember reading South Beach diet when it came out. And if you lived in
1:43.2	South Beach and had access to all those restaurants
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