Celebrity chef reveals No. 1 mistake sabotaging your weight loss: ‘Fuzzy math’

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Eating healthy doesn’t have to be complicated, according tocelebrity chef Rocco DiSpirito.

�s new Bar Rocco – whose philosophy and cookbooks are rooted in health-conscious dieting – shared a few misconceptions about healthy eating, especially when the end goal is weight loss.

“There is no one fix, there’s no one cure for everyone,” he said.“Everyone has different needs and theirweight-loss journeyis going to be different.So, you really have to figure out what your problem is.”

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This could be abody compositionimbalance, a lack of exercise or a generally poor diet, DiSpirito mentioned.“Figure out what will help you address those issues most quickly,” he advised.

Rocco DiSpirito poses in front of his dishes at Bar Rocco

Rocco DiSpirito recently opened Bar Rocco in New York City.The Rockefeller Center location offers breakfast, lunch and dinner.(Eric Medsker)

“Even if you’re working out, unless you’reLeBron Jamesand burning 8,000 calories a game, there’s no way to out-train a bad diet, so at some point in our lives, we have to come to a reckoning with what we consume.”

DiSpirito says it’s “always a good idea” to start with the basics, including consumingless sugar, less alcohol, fewer processed foods and fewer processed carbs, as well as eating more protein.

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The chef revealed that the No.1 issue he’s witnessed is that people have “no idea how many calories they’re consuming.”

“We’re all consuming two to three times more than we realize,” he noted.“And even when we count and use the apps, there’s a lot of fuzzy math going on.”

“So, getting a handle on how much you’re consuming, even the little picking that you do while you’re cooking and cleaning, all that counts and adds up quickly.”

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As the healthy eating movement gains traction, DiSpirito called it “very important” for most of the U.S., as the country faces an “obesity issue.”

“Restaurantsare definitely thinking about it as well,” he said.“[But] I wouldn’t say restaurants are making it their [top] priority.”

man and woman with forks in pasta dishes at restaurant

As the healthy eating movement gains traction, DiSpirito called it “very important” for most of the U.S., as the country faces an “obesity issue.”(iStock)

Privately, DiSpirito said he has focused on providinghealthy mealplans for clients.

“But for restaurants to approach healthy eating is a little difficult, because it’s a whole different kind of cooking and a [different] kind of energy,” he said.

Celebrity chef Rocco DiSpirito says other countries, like Italy, “don’t allow a lot of messing around with food that we allow in the United States.”(Jonathan Pushnik)

“If you go to Italy, for example, and just eat everything they eat, it feels indulgent … and it’s also very healthy,” he said.“And the key is thefood supplyis still natural.It’s still organic.”

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“There aren’t lots of sprayed food [or] sprayed vegetables in Italy,” DiSpirito went on.“They don’t allow a lot of messing around with food that we allow in the United States, the GMO-ing, the modifying.”

“So healthy and indulgent are not mutually exclusive, but in [our] food supply system … it’s very difficult.”