When losing weight, you've got to stick to the rules and follow the program. But once you get to maintenance, it’s all about finding what works for you over the long term. 

People often come to think there's only one way to eat for everybody - that is just simply not true. Now, we do believe that there's never really a place for processed Frankenfood crap. Talking of having Slurpees from a 7-Eleven every day, and having Ding Dongs and Ho Hos every day, there's not a place for that, but other than those foods, there really isn't just one way to eat for every single person.

There's just not one right way, and that's how Code Red was born. The program was born because I got heavy and fat. I put on quite a bit of weight even though I was exercising three to five hours a day. When I realized that it was all diet-related, and that exercise had nothing to do with losing weight, I created Code Red as a mixture of many different programs. It is a mixture of Atkins, paleo, Mediterranean, keto - lots of different things. I mixed them all and came up with Code Red, so you're going to see things that they allow on keto, that we don't allow on Code Red.

Once you lose your weight on Code Red, we transition you to a maintenance group, and we encourage our rebels to find what works for them because they might be a little different. We're really strict during weight loss, but during maintenance, although we still have our core values and rules in place, we do want you to mess with the formula, just in case you think you are missing something or you think you want to try something else out.

You need to have the right plan for you to match your goals and to whatever is going on in your life, right then. For instance, if you are training for a marathon, and you are in our maintenance group, we are going to change your diet a bit. We’re going to help you determine what carbs you need to help fuel you for that marathon.

If your goal is to get super shredded and super lean, we're going to keep you on Code Red. I might even put you on a carnivorous diet, I don't know. And so we're really going to adjust you down, but you have to find what works for you. 

In the short term, we want you to eat according to Code Red. We want you to stay strict. I want you to stick to the food list. Do not deviate from your custom program plan. You do exactly what I say until every last drop is gone, and then, I switch to playing the long game - What can we do for you long term, that is going to keep this weight off for the rest of your life. Weight loss and maintenance modes are not that different, but there are going to be some shifts. To know more, stay tuned as Cari and I explain to you how one size just does not fit everybody.

Key Points of Discussion:

• He's able to build muscle on veganism; not everybody is that way (6:28)
• Code Red was born as a mixture of many different programs (6:44)
• We encourage our rebels to find out what works for them in maintenance mode (7:48)
• Be wary of too much stress on your body in the fat-burning mode (8:09)
• We change people's food when they’re on maintenance as per their goal (12:05)
• What works for me, might not work for Cari (12:05)
• Different case: She's not exercising. She doesn't have a big calorie demand… (13:12)
• I don't want you coming to Code Red just for short-term ends (15:48)
• I don't want to see you add certain foods back in, but there are some foods you can, if it works for you (16:32)
• What are you eating now and how is that working? (17:25)
• We have a very strategic protocol to transitioning you into maintenance. And it's only adding one thing at a time (18:27)
• What is working for you right now may not be what works down the road (20:12)
• Being a “nutrivore”, meaning picking the best quality you can, of your food, and finding the eating style that works for you (26:38)
• It’s about accountability, and long-term sustainability (28:01)
• You can’t take Phentermine every day for the rest of your life and expect it not to hurt your body, but you can do Code Red every day for the rest of your life (28:18)
• If you clean up your diet, you can find out what is going to work for you (30:05)
• We only want what you can keep up with for the rest of your life - for you to keep your weight down and still feel good (32:25)

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