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Chapter 12 · 100% Real With Ruby; nutrition, strength, fat loss, muscle, macros - without the fluff

Metabolic Testing and Increasing Calories

February 11, 2023

and i can tell you um for a lot of the especially the women listening to this it's like whether you whether you've been chronically dieting or not um even though it's scary i i i i would say that almost 100 of the time the first thing you should do is start increasing your calories Um, you know, I don't always do this. Sometimes I work out people's TV with all my calculations and stuff, and then I'll put them on, put them on a nutritional protocol and then I'll see what happens after a couple of weeks. And then I've got it down to a, down to a system now where I pretty much nail it so good every time that they can stay on the same calories and barely have to tweak anything. Um, but you know, if you're already under eating, you may consider, um, or if you aren't sure if you're overeating or not, you may consider just saying, hey, maybe we pump the calories up and see where we're truly overfeeding. When you see your weights consistently every three or four days, it consistently jumps up, jumps up. Now you actually know that you have exceeded the amount of calories you need. That gives you a really good position of leverage. Now you know you're overeating. Before, you thought you were dieting you may not have actually been dieting or you may still been eating a surplus but you don't know it's better to raise the calories a bit see what makes you actually gain weight then bring it down so i actually just use that on one of my afl girls um she wanted to go into a re-comp and i'm like okay let me look at your calories i go and i didn't realize she was she's and she's training she's doing crazy i've got her doing crazy contrast training olympic training jumps and sprints runs and all this shit really high up and stuff she's eating like 1200 calories And I going holy are you really just eating 1 Yeah OK first thing we going to do is pump you up to 17 Pumped her up to 17 she barely after eight weeks barely gained a kilo then i pumped her up like 21 2200 same thing she gained like 500 grams so we now know where that level needs to be now i can actually bring her calories down she should just start shoving off the fat but she's going to start afl season soon so i probably won't have to i'll just let the afl train to become the deficit