THE FOLLOWING PASSAGE is an extract from ‘The Keane Edge’ by Brian Keane.

Losing weight is a lot like baking a cake.

Yes, you read that right. I’m starting this ‘healthy eating’ book talking about baking a cake. As you’ll see over the coming chapters, this book is unlike anything you have ever read before. I’m not going to be preaching the fat-burning capabilities of some random food found deep in the Amazon jungle, or selling you on some quick-fix solution that massively reduces your calorie intake by eliminating an entire food group. Nope, you won’t get that here. What you are going to get in the following pages is a mindset shift.

You’re likely going to hear some uncomfortable truths about the sole contributing factor as to why you don’t look the way you want to look. I’ll give you a clue. When it comes to every single diet or nutritional plan you’ve followed unsuccessfully over the years, what has been the common denominator? Have you been too restrictive and then pressed the ‘f*ck it button’ and binged on everything in sight? Possibly. Have you eliminated entire food groups in your desire to lose weight, e.g. six weeks gluten free, no dairy? Yeah, you might have.

But none of those is the common denominator. Want to know what is? It’s YOU! Yes, you, or more accurately your mindset and how you approach the diet or nutritional plan. But don’t worry, we’re going to fix that. But first, back to my cake.

Surely cake is off-limits if you’re trying to lose weight or reduce your body fat? Well, yes and no. Yes in the sense that in Part One of the book you’ll see that calories do matter and food portion sizes are important. Eating a whole cake is unlikely to support your weight-loss goal.

Equally though, one slice a few times a week probably has the opposite effect. It gives you the psychological and metabolic boost you need to stick to your nutritional plan over the space of a week, a month or even a year. But that’s not why I bring up cake. The reason I bring it up, apart from the fact that cake is delicious, is the baking element.

If you’ve ever baked a cake (or any other oven treat), you know that you have to follow a recipe. You need to do things in the right order, following a step-by-step process to end up with an appetising baked good. But you also need the ingredient list.

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