If you have tried to lose weight without having success, you likely have been doing all the wrong things correctly: three balanced meals a day, eating small healthy snacks throughout the day, eating less than 2000 calories a day, cutting out fat, cutting out added sugar, switching to whole grains, and exercising more.

You made sure not to cheat and you said “no” to food temptations, wiggled your way out of peer pressure, and you did this for weeks and weeks, but after all the sacrifice, it wasn’t really worth it.

Why does all this effort not work for fat loss? It’s because at no point did your body get a chance to access your fat storages. Sadly, no combination of wrong things are going to work.

How do you give your body a chance then?

First we have to accept that evolutionarily speaking, humans are hardwired to store fat efficiently and to live off that fat for days on end. We are still hardwired like that.

Just like our ancestors we don’t need to eat every time we need energy. The energy is already there in our fat-storage but it is not readily available. It takes at least half a day of not eating to switch to fat-storage burning mode. For most people, not eating for that long is only feasible during sleep. There will be no fat-storage burning otherwise.

If you don’t break your fast after sleeping, you will finally begin to burn fat from your fat storage. So just skip your breakfast.

You can still enjoy your unadulterated morning coffee and tea.