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Protein First

Fix runaway hunger without counting a single calorie.

Most people eating less are fighting hunger with willpower. That is a fight they have scheduled several times a day, every day, forever.

Protein is generally more filling per calorie than carbohydrate or fat, and it is the thing people skip when meals get thrown together. It is not the only lever — food high in water and fibre fills you up too — but choosing the protein first changes the shape of the plate before the rest fills the space, and you eat less without holding back at the table.

  1. 01

    Decide the protein first

    Every meal starts with what the protein is. Everything else gets built around that answer, not before it.

  2. 02

    Use your palm, not a scale

    One or two palm-sized portions a meal is close enough for almost everyone. Being precise here costs a lot of compliance and buys very little.

  3. 03

    Eat it first

    The order inside the meal matters more than people expect. Starting with the protein reliably cuts how much of the rest you want.

  4. 04

    Fix breakfast before anything else

    It is the meal most likely to be nearly all carbohydrate, and the one you feel for the next six hours.

Go deeper

What the paid version adds to this one.

  • How much you need, based on your weight and training, and why

  • Fifteen meals at three time budgets, including a five-minute set

  • The plant-based version, which is a genuinely different problem

  • How this works alongside lifting, filmed across a training block