Hey,
Here's a little story that will help you with all of your health and fitness goals.
I had a client once who came to me with a notebook full of the different diet plans they had tried.
Keto. Paleo. Intermittent fasting.
Carnivore.
She'd tried them all.
Some worked for a few weeks. Others didn't work at all. And after two years of jumping from one
"best" approach to another, she was right back where she started.
Frustrated, confused, and convinced her body was just broken.
But
her body wasn't the problem. The question she was asking was.
See, she kept asking: "What's the best diet?"
And here's the thing
about that question, it sounds smart. It sounds productive.
But it's actually leading you nowhere, because there is no universal "best."
There's only best for something.
Think about it like this: if I asked you, "What's the best tool?" you'd probably look at me like I'd lost it.
Best for what? Building a house? Fixing a car? Performing surgery? The answer changes completely based on what you're trying to accomplish.
Health and fitness work the same way. Yet every single day, I hear variations of the same questions:
"What's the best workout?"
"What's the best sleep strategy?"
"What should I eat?"
And every time, my answer is: Best for what? And how will you know if it's working?
That second part of my answer is where the magic truly lives.
Because when you don't define the outcome you're chasing, and more importantly, when you don't decide how you'll measure whether you're getting closer to it, every strategy starts to look equally plausible.
You're sailing without a compass. One week you're
convinced intermittent fasting is the answer. The next week, some influencer swears by eating six small meals a day, and suddenly you're second-guessing everything.
You end up confusing change with progress. And trust me, they are not the same thing.
Here's what shifts everything: asking a better question.
Instead of "What's the best diet?" try this: "What's the best approach for improving my body composition, energy levels, and blood
markers, and how will I measure whether it's working?"
See the difference? You've just moved from vague and reactive to specific and strategic. From opinion to evidence. From guessing to knowing.
Let me give you a few real examples of how this plays out.
Diet:
Don't ask what's "best." Ask
what improves your body composition, your energy throughout the day, and your health markers. Then actually measure those things. Track your weight and measurements. Notice your energy patterns. Get bloodwork done. Now you have data, not just feelings.
Training:
Stop searching for the "perfect program." Instead, ask what improves your strength, your recovery, your muscle mass, and your performance in the activities that matter to you. Then track your lifts, your soreness, your sleep quality, your readiness to train. Let the metrics tell you what's working.
Sleep:
Forget the latest biohacking trend. Ask what genuinely improves your sleep consistency, your next-day energy, and your physical recovery. Then watch the data: your sleep tracker, your morning readiness
scores, how you feel when you train.
This approach sounds simple, but it's incredibly powerful. Because once you start measuring, you stop spinning your wheels. You stop chasing trends. You stop letting some guru's opinion override your own lived experience.
You become a scientist running an experiment of one.
The people I've worked with who've made the most dramatic, lasting transformations aren't the ones who stumbled onto some secret program or
perfect protocol. They're the ones who got ruthlessly clear on what they were trying to improve, and then measured their way to what actually worked for them.
Not for their neighbour. Not for some Instagram fitness model. For them.
So here's my challenge for you this week: pick one area (diet, training, sleep, recovery, or whatever) and reframe your question. Define the outcome you want. Decide how you'll measure it. Then test, track, and adjust.
Because the truth is, there is no "best." There's only what works for you, right now, with the life you're living and the body you have.
And the only way to find that is to measure your way there.
