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Stay Under 10% Body Fat: 8‑Step System

Implement Thomas DeLauer's exact daily habits to stay lean year‑round without suffering or obsessing.

Based on: I Study Fat Loss for a Living - Here's What I do to Stay Under 10% by Thomas DeLauer

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Why You Need This Checklist

What if staying under 10% body fat had nothing to do with suffering, weighing your food, or spending hours in the gym? Thomas DeLauer has studied fat loss professionally for over 14 years and personally maintains around 9% body fat year-round. His secret isn't what most people expect — and that's exactly what makes it worth knowing.

Most people trying to get lean are grinding out daily calorie deficits, snacking on 'healthy' foods every two hours, doing endless zone-2 cardio, and wondering why the scale won't budge. The frustrating truth is that many of the habits marketed as fat-loss strategies are actually working against your body's own fat-burning hormones. You're interrupting glucagon, tanking metabolic flexibility, and burning willpower you don't have to spare — all while getting diminishing returns.

Now picture this: eating foods you genuinely enjoy 80% of the time, training for under an hour, fasting just once or twice a week instead of every day, and letting your body's own hormones do the heavy lifting. That's the lifestyle Thomas actually lives. No exotic superfoods, no hundred-supplement stack, no misery. Just eight smart, sustainable habits that work with your biology instead of against it.

Thomas brings serious credibility here. He doesn't just talk about fat loss theory — he references leading researchers like Dr. Bill Campbell, explains the science behind glucagon and metabolic flexibility, and has stayed lean through a decade of fatherhood, a demanding career, and real life. This isn't bro-science. It's a refined, personally tested system built on 14 years of deep study and daily application.

This checklist translates everything Thomas covers in this video into a clean, actionable step-by-step guide you can start using today. You'll know exactly what to eat, when to fast, how to structure your training, which supplements to rotate and when, and the one snacking habit to drop immediately. No guesswork, no rewatching the video. Just open the checklist and follow the steps.

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Every checklist item comes with actionable notes to guide you — things like "Don't forget to do this before you start," "Avoid this common mistake," or "Set a reminder for 30 days out." Nothing vague, just clear next steps.

PLAN Build your 80/20 diet foundation using Thomas's core staple foods
DECIDE Define your personal 20% flexibility rules and non-negotiable exclusions
DO Train fasted 50-70% of the time, and use pure whey protein pre-workout 30-50% of the time
DO Eat collagen daily from whole food sources, not just supplements
PLAN Rotate your supplements in groups of 4-6 based on your current goal phase

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