TDP #66 - Billy Craig

The Thermo Diet Podcast

In this episode of The Thermo Diet Podcast Jayton Miller sits down with one of the original gangsters of metabolic nutrition Billy Craig. Billy Craig is a UK based Independent Health & Nutrition Researcher. The focus of his work and research is currently on the Psychology of Dieting and Metabolism amongst other related topics. In this episode they talk about Billy’s story, The no diet -diet, why diet and exercise might not be what you need to slim up and feel good, why you should not cut calories, and how to deal with some of the psychological barriers that come our way when adopting the "eat more and exercise less" approach. Check it out and let us know what you think!

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Full Transcript:

Jayton Miller:
Welcome back to the Thermo Diet Podcast. I'm your host, Jayton Miller, and today I have on podcast one of the OGs, Billy Craig. Billy Craig is the author of Consistent Eating. He is a UK-based independent health and nutrition researcher with a focus around the psychology of dieting and metabolism, among other related topics.
Jayton Miller:
In this episode, we talk about Billy's story. We talk about the no-diet diet, why diet and exercise might not be what you need to slim up and feel good, why you really shouldn't count calories in most cases and be cutting calories whenever you're trying to heal your body. And why this is a common misconception in some cases. So there's a lot of golden nuggets in this episode and I'm really excited for you all to be able to listen to it. Every once in a while the audio is a bit funky, but he is in the UK. So outside of that, it is relatively decent. So I hope you all enjoy this episode. Let's get into it.
Jayton Miller:
How's it going today, guys? I am here with none other than Billy Craig. How you doing today, Billy?
Billy Craig:
Very well, thank you. You?
Jayton Miller:
I'm doing very well. So for the listeners out there who might not know who you are, do you mind telling them a little bit of your background and where you came from?
Billy Craig:
I started off as a cyclist, so riding for Team Great Britain. Got injured, ended up working for Rolls-Royce, which I think most people think is the car company, but it's the aero engines. Wasn't massively interested in it, so I was looking for a way back into sport or some sort of health thing. And then fell into, like most people, personal training. And then my background in engineering never really made dieting make much sense to me. I could never understand why people were trying to eat less.
Billy Craig:
It was very mechanistic at the time and it just didn't make any sense. So, I probably should have gone straight to uni. But I ended up in a gym and pretty much got in arguments with everyone because I didn't do what I was supposed to do. So, yeah. That was where the "What would Billy say?" tagline, because I was a