The Impact of Processed Foods on Performance

and is there something as well that would like have a negative effect on performance and things like that if the if these quote-unquote like not clean foods or dirty foods will have on our train performance and our day-to-day and blue glucose levels and things like this what's the kind of negative effects that these get these kind of if we're having a if you see these people or see people who would like have a yes i'm eating 2000 calories a day but then you impact their diet and the quality is just really poor of eating crisps and ice cream and twinkies all day, every day of the week, but they think that their calories are in check. So they're okay with what would you say to that person now? Well, and well, here's the, I think first we need to say what the problem is. You know, if we say, okay, calories, a calorie, cool. A macro is different and different macros are different. Like not all carbs are four calories per kilo or per gram. Some of them are 3.7. Some of them are 4.3. Same thing with fatty acids and same thing with proteins. These are all approximations. Now you don't really have to worry about that. But anything that's easier to digest, like something that's already broken down, like a processed food is going to create large increases in glucose or large increases of fats. And sometimes not fats that are very beneficial. If you're eating a lot of hydrogenated oils, that's going to screw up with inflammatory processes that makes it harder to regulate inflammation and recovery and things like that. So again, and it's dose makes the poison. So it's not like you can't have it. It's that, well, we probably want to limit it a little bit. Now, we also have to understand too, that once things get into a cell, bloodstream or the cell, because a fat's not a fat and a carb's not a carb, they can all do different things. Like if you think that's not true, okay, then explain the difference between fructose metabolism and carbohydrate metabolism. They're metabolized completely differently and in different areas the body If you look at well carbs are all carbs Cool Eat all sorbitol for all your carbs When you pissing out of your ass all day now tell me that a carb is just a carb I going to have a sugar alcohol which is technically considered a carb, and I'm going to be pissing my brains out all day because I can't metabolize it. Ultimately, I think on one side, you got to agree with them because when you break things down, whether it is dextrose or whether it's fructose, galactose, If you're looking at like a disaccharide, a polysaccharide, it's all going to break down to the same inherent thing in your body. But there are repercussions. The more shit you eat, the more your body has to then do damage control against that stuff. So it's better for health optimization to try to eat as clean or beneficial as possible and limit the treats when you need them. Now, if you're an athlete, a lot of things change because sometimes the only way to get the food fuel that you need is to eat some dirty shit. I don't want people to misconstrue what I'm saying because I do eat a lot of shit and so do my clients. There's a point where it's like you get to the on the clean bandwagon soapbox too much that makes people scared to eat a fucking Skittle. I had a client one time. She played AFL and Gaelic football and she was massively starving herself. I got her eating way more. Her injuries went away. Her performance went up. she was stressing out before a match and she goes what do i eat i don't have enough food and i go okay what do you have available she goes um i'm at this store and i uh i like skittles or skittles i'm go okay grab a family bag of skittles and eat those and she was like really but what about the red dye number 40 i'm like who gives a shit eat the fucking skittles she had a fucking amazing game and every time before her match every sunday it was like what do i eat well skittles tended to work really well but what about all the dyes and just eat the fucking skittles man do you want your performance or not so and that's again the pendulum people can swing too far to clean side dirty side come on guys somewhere in the middle is really the the truth of all this stuff yeah i think that last last sentence really really summarized it and and the the fact even just you saying it there that the macro is not a macro calories the calorie calorie is a calorie but the macro is not a macro i think is is much much much more applicable and in terms of this is one thing that i did really want you to unpack and this is something that we're talking off air i did hear you discuss in a podcast before and i think that once we get to a certain stage in a dieting phase and where we've let's say we've already done 12 let's set up a scenario an average joe is set up i've done 12 weeks 12 13 weeks of dieting at this stage so food is going to be low more than likely cardio is probably going to be a little bit higher than usual and then we've plateaued and we drop food 100 calories training on train day no movement maybe we drop another 100 calories training on train day no movement maybe we add next day cardio no movement we then think the two options then for us is one to push much harder in that pedal or two potentially move away from a diet and phase so what's your thought process about this kind of stuff and what's the negative effect or can you actually move through that fat loss plateau?