NLP688 - Why You’re Struggling with Fat Loss: A Conversation with Andres Ayesta
The Next Level Health & Fitness Podcast (Formerly The Key Nutrition Podcast)
Brad Jensen
4.9 • 766 Ratings
🗓️ 4 July 2025
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
In this insightful episode, we’re joined by Andres Ayesta — RD, fat loss coach, and founder of Planos Nutrition — who has helped over 600 clients achieve lasting fat loss with expert-built systems. With more than 12 years of coaching experience, Andres shares why so many people fail in their fitness and fat loss journeys, and what it actually takes to succeed.
Andres breaks down his powerful “rocks, pebbles, and sand” analogy, helping you understand what’s truly important in your health journey — and what’s just noise. We unpack why foundational habits like daily movement, strength training, and protein intake are your “rocks,” while debates over seed oils or supplements are more like “sand.”
You’ll hear practical tips on prioritizing what matters most, plus examples of how clients get caught up in distractions that don’t drive real progress. Andres shares actionable strategies to simplify your approach and finally see results.
Key Topics Discussed:
- Why most people fail to make lasting changes in fitness and nutrition.
- The “rocks, pebbles, and sand” framework for setting health priorities.
- Common distractions like seed oils vs. foundational habits like walking more.
- How to simplify your diet approach for sustainable fat loss.
- Coaching insights from working with 35+ men and women over 12+ years.
About Our Guest:
Andres Ayesta is a Registered Dietitian and Fat Loss Coach with 12+ years of experience helping men and women 35 and up achieve fat loss that sticks. He has served over 600 clients through his evidence-based, habit-focused systems. Based in Tampa, Florida, Andres shares practical nutrition and lifestyle strategies to help people transform their health for good.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | What's up, everybody? This is Brad Jensen and you are listening to The Next Level podcast. |
| 0:26.8 | Welcome back to the Next Level Fitness podcast, your tips and tools to help you get to your next level. |
| 0:30.6 | Today I'm joined on the podcast by Andreas Aista. |
| 0:33.9 | He is a registered dietitian, a fat loss coach. He helps particularly 30 men 30 and above achieve fat loss that sticks with |
| 0:39.4 | expert built systems he's been doing this for 12 plus years over 600 clients served and uh |
| 0:46.2 | I've been seeing them around for quite some time I don't remember when that was but uh welcome |
| 0:51.1 | to the show man thanks for coming on dude it's uh it's a pleasure i think it's |
| 0:55.7 | in 2019 i think is when i ran into you and we maybe connected a little bit on social media |
| 1:02.2 | so it's been a while yeah yeah it was a long time ago we've been around yeah that is very |
| 1:07.8 | true um yeah remember um i remember seeing I was like, oh, because, you know, well, maybe a little |
| 1:18.7 | before then, before that, any registered dietitians I met were like working in the medical, |
| 1:24.8 | like they were working at like, like in the medical side of things. |
| 1:29.4 | And, uh, you were on the first that I saw him like, oh, he's like actually using it for fat loss |
| 1:35.6 | and helping people achieve great aesthetic results and inside, outside the whole works. |
| 1:41.8 | Um, do you feel like a lot of people that go to school to become a registered dietitian |
| 1:45.8 | are going more that path now than like the more traditional route? |
| 1:50.7 | Yeah, because it can I cuss in this podcast? |
| 1:54.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:54.6 | Okay. |
| 1:55.0 | Just because he pays shit when you go on a clinical route. |
| 1:58.4 | I mean, you dietitians on a clinical setting get like, you know, |
| 2:02.9 | depending on the hospital your workout, it's like 50 to 60 grand a year, like if you're lucky, |
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