Intuitive Eating vs. Informed Competence

for me, it is a lower-carb diet. And then maybe like some cyclical refeeds and things like that works really well for me. And, you know, like you were saying, Dean, earlier about like how people feel. Like I can feel because I use performance as a factor. So if I'm doing Brazilian jujitsu, which is kind of my new love, if I go low carb for a few days, I know that on about day four, I know I'm going to start doing the Ricky Bobby thing. Like, I don't know what to do with my hands thing. And I can tell because I'm on the mat and I'm like, I'm getting destroyed and I have no wind. That's when I know I need a refeed. Like, and so it, but to be able to, to be able to eat like that means that you have a very high level of subconscious competence and you have a very high intuition towards eating. This is what drives me crazy with all these intuitive eaters these days, the anti-diet culture. It's all intuitive eating. It's like, listen, motherfucker, if you don't know how food works, you can't be intuitive. Like, because if you're intuitive, you intuitively want to put a fucking hamburger and a pizza down your fucking gullet, you know? So you have to go for a period of time somehow tracking something, whether that's taking pictures for your coach, whether that's using your hands, whether that's using a scale, and then learning how to balance out a plate, that type of thing. I mean, it's very true. The intuitive eating and all the rest of it is still the same now as like every other strategy of food management or food psychological management is a misalignment with the true roots of where it comes from, which is actually why we coined the term informed because we do come from a tracking background and then we're saying consciously be aware and be intentional in your decisions. And you're doing that through the education and through the learning that you've gone through to know about food. Whereas actual intuitive eating, trademarked version, very different, but we have a bunch of people out there that are, again, just taking what they see as a protocol and going, this is what you should do, and fucking it up for everybody. Well, intuitive eating, I think, is very confused because people think it's another way to digest

whereas intuitive eating is actually weight neutral. If you happen to lose weight when you do it, then so be it. If you gain weight, then so be it. But with every other form of, like, nutrition approach generally, you do have a weight goal in mind, whether that's weight gain or weight loss or weight maintenance, like whatever. So it is kind of standing alone there. Not to say it's good or bad. I think it's misunderstood. It is wrong, and people just need to fucking realise that they need to read from the front of the cover to the back of the cover before they start to implement the strategies that they don't understand. Yeah, 100%.