Odyssey Coaching Systems

Cut hard. Train harder. It works, until it doesn't anymore.

Here's what I wish more coaches would teach you.

Metabolic slowdown is real (read the slides), and no matter how bad you want to lose that weight, the body needs to feel safe and nourished first.

Years of dieting-dieting-dieting leads to muscle loss, nutrient deficiencies, a poor relationship with food, and metabolic adaptation.

And while that last word sounds big, it's just a normal process.
Every time you cut calories aggressively, your body adapts.

Do that for 10-15 years and you've got a body that's brilliant at surviving and terrible at letting go of fat.

And no diet is going to fix that.
The first phase in my OCS Process will, though.

I don't put new clients in a deficit on day one. I feed themup. Properly. For at least 2-4 weeks or months depending on the individual of course.

Then when we get to the fat loss part,
With solid routines and habits,
And with a body that actually has capacity to respond,
Fat loss becomes predictable.

It takes longer to set up. It works 10x better once it's set up.

DM me "QUIZ" if you want to know where you're stuck.

"17 Mai ruined my week. I was doing so well."

It didn't. The day didn't ruin anything.

Celebrations like 17 Mai, Christmas, Easter, birthdays...
These are all part of your Odyssey.

So I teach my clients how to include these good times with friends and family, without restricting themselves, and also without derailing after what's just supposed to be a fun day.

What ruins it for people is the 5 days of overcorrecting after.

Skipping meals.
Doubling cardio.
"Being good" to make up for it.

Then crashing into a binge by Friday because they're starving.

Before coaching, many clients used to do this exact thing around every Christmas, every birthday, every weekend out.

But now they know better.

Because it's never the day that adds fat.
It's the week of panic-restriction.

Here's the thing, though.

The scale being up the next morning is biology. Glycogen and water from the carbs. Salt from the food. Alcohol slowing digestion and causing some inflammation.

95% of the time it normalizes in 2-3 days if you just go back to your routine.

My clients who hold their results long-term aren't the ones with the best discipline on 17 Mai. They're the ones with the most casual week after.

If you do one thing next week, do this:
Live your days like any other.
And that scale will drop again.

Save this and read it again Sunday morning ;)

Your liver accounts for 15-20% of your Resting Metabolic Rate. But, what does it do?

- Fat burning (mobilizing stored fat for energy)
- Hormone clearance (getting old estrogen out of your body)
- Toxin clearance

And no one's talking about this stuff?

You can't train your way out of this.
You can't diet your way out of this.
You have to support digestion and detox pathways.

When digestion's off, and the liver sluggish, then I'd start there.

Because the inside needs to be in a good spot,
for the outside results (fat loss, muscle gain) to show.

She thought she was weak. Snacking at 9 PM, craving sugar by 3 PM, losing control every weekend. Always spiralling.

But only 3 days into her food diary, I messaged her; 'Is this all accurately tracked, and is this roughly how you've been eating recently?'

Because, when I looked at what she was actually eating during the day, it showed 1000-1200 calories.

Skipping breakfast. Tiny lunch. Protein bar on her afternoon break.
Of course her body was screaming for food by the time she got home.

Cravings are just a symptom.
A signal of what your body lacks.

Protein, fiber, overall calories, micronutrients, stress, sleep, structure...
All of this gets addressed first with my clients.

And even those who felt like they couldn't control their cravings, no matter what... Finally feel energized and satisfied throughout the day, literally within weeks.

We fix the plate. Daily routines.
And the cravings are gone.
Every time.

Reply 'MEALS' to get my free meal plan training.

If I were stuck right now, I wouldn't rush to change the plan.

New diet. New workout.. More fasting. Different macros. Anything that feels like "doing something", but that's really unnecessary if you don't ask yourself these questions.

First off, did you actually do the work, consistently, for long enough?

Nine times out of ten, the answer is no. The plan didn't fail. The ex*****on did. Or not enough time has passed yet for the plan to actually show its results.

If you can honestly say yes, you did the work, you were consistent, you gave it enough time, and you're still stuck?

Then something else is in the way. And from what I've seen coaching hundreds of people through this, it's almost always one of three things.

Knowledge.
You don't understand the why behind what you're doing, so you can't trust the process. Good news: it can be learned.

Skills.
You know what to do but not how to actually do it when life gets messy. Good news: they can be taught.

Experience.
You just haven't been through enough reps yet. Enough tough weeks, vacations, stressful seasons to build the instincts that make this feel automatic. Good news: that comes with time.

Next time you feel stuck, don't rush to change your meals or macros.

Ask yourself the first question. Then figure out if it's knowledge, skills, or experience that's the actual problem.

Then based on those answers, you'll know exactly what to do next.

Save this post for a rainy day ;)

Fermented foods can backfire when your gut is dysbiotic.

Your gut is home to trillions of bacteria. And when that balance shifts, you might have:

A) Too many opportunistic bacteria (the microbes you don't want too many of)
B) Not enough protective species.
or C) Both

That's dysbiosis.

If you jump straight to probiotics and fermented foods when your gut is inflamed and dysbiotic...

You're also feeding the bacteria which are already high.
So your symptoms get worse.

This is why I created a new guide for you, my Gut Repair Blueprint, that comes with a symptoms quiz that helps you get super clear on what area needs most focus. Plus, it gives you actual steps to take today to improve your gut health.

DM me 'GUT'
to get it for free.

Monday morning after a big weekend. Up 1.5 kg.
And the spiral starts before your coffee.

"I did so good, why's it STILL up?!"
"F #$%, gotta start over again"
"This isn't worth it"

Every week there's at least one client who has a little scale meltdown. And hey, I don't blame them.

We're all human, and I had plenty of those moments myself back in 2012 when I was overweight, trying to lose 30kg...

Here's what that 1.5 kg actually is, based on how the body responds after a weekend of higher carbs, more sodium, more food, and (let's be real) probably a few glasses of wine too.

Water retention.
Glycogen stores.
Digestion's off.
Food mass.
Different macro intake.

The actual fat gain?
Minimal, if any.

The rest is just your body doing exactly what it's supposed to do. Carbs pull water. Sodium holds it. Every gram of glycogen pulls 3-4 grams of water into the cells. Food is still moving through.

So while you're worried about that scale being up,
understand it's just biology doing it's job.

What I wouldn't do though, is allowing myself to turn this into a panic spiral.

Fluctuations are normal. They only become a problem if you change what you do based off a brief emotional moment where you saw the opposite what you hoped to see on the scale.

I've told this same thing to 400+ clients:
Don't change anything, it'll drop again.
And 95% of the time, it does within 2-3 days.

Save this post.
Next time the scale freaks you out after a big weekend, read this again ;)

If I could've told 22 year old Johan these things...