All dieting advice is useless, but this one

Alexei Sorokin
4 min readJan 3, 2022

This is damn simple. Stop complicating it and misleading others just because you’re excited about having found a method that makes you happy, and maybe even works for you. Your keto diet, your intermittent fasting, your no-meat, no-sugar, your gluten-free diet — it only works to the extent it helps you achieve this one simple goal — not overeating.

Not overeating is the single, simplest, unambiguous truth about weight management. If you consume more than you spend, you’re at risk of putting on weight, period. Whether you exercise or not, overeating is a…

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Alexei Sorokin

A Russian immigrant in America, father of 4, Cambridge and Harvard Business School alum. I run and write every day. https://runningwritingliving.substack.com/