Redefining Calories and Macros

but we we take the focus and put the focus where it really matters which is let's work on getting stronger let's focus on your waist and your hips going down and let's focus on you know your calves and your arms going up and i'm like oh that's weird i'm like yeah but that's that's showing us the building muscle and let's focus on the fact that you could barely do a seated cable row of 12 and a half kilos for 12 reps and now you're doing it 15 reps for 30 kilos so we change their mindset about what's most important. And then we can start working on the calories later. But I like what Dr. Lauren Fannick says about calories. We don't eat calories. We eat food. And, you know, one of the things I teach in our courses is calories don't actually exist. And when I say it, people are like, oh, that's beautiful as shit. I mean, think about it. What is a calorie? It's a unit of measurement, right? Now, there's a certain amount of energy stored in the food, but there's no such thing as an actual calorie that you can hold and see. Just like if I look at a foot or a meter or a yard or a mile or a kilometer, I can't actually see that. It's just some way I measure things. So we talked to our clients that we are measuring calories as how much total volume of food we're eating, and then we focus on macros of what that food is now constructed of, right? And that some food has more of a calories out than others. So we prioritize protein and we leverage a lot of dietary and just thermogenesis. And then we focus on carbs and fats, depending on if they're more or less insulin resistant or depending on how heavy they are. They're really low with low carbs. Yeah, I love that. You're kind of two steps ahead in regards to the mental relationship people have with losing fat, which is just a lot of restriction. and a lot of fucking disappointment and you're putting different metrics on that when when you hit okay everything else will take care of itself your focus on waist measurements circumference eating for performance train as hard as you can recover and you know the body's gonna be in a better state to probably inherently eat less calories anyway because you're hungry and appetite will regulate itself and then and I hope you're gonna mean the whole different

and psychological mindset from that. Yeah, we try to teach that food is fuel, right? And we have to eat more if they want to train more and get better. And that, you know, food can be fuel or it can be pleasure. And we need to disassociate our emotion and understand the difference between those two things. And it's okay to eat for pleasure, but you have to first get a foundation of eating to support bodily structures. And then we layer on pleasure foods after that. Um, but I think too, like one thing is when you pump their protein up, they end up, they end up realizing they're snacking more than they thought. And a good number of the ladies that we train here, once you pump their protein up and they're eating like 150 to 180 grams of protein, they realize that for a couple of weeks, they're not snacking anymore. And they're actually having a hard time getting their food in. That's when I know that they're struggling with success because if I'm not that hungry, then there's a good chance that I'm supporting that calorie deficit and body fat. And that's the key is that you can't really be, if you think about it, you can't really be in a calorie deficit. You either get it from food you're eating or food you've eaten previously. If you're in a true calorie deficit, you're starving and you're going to die, right? And if you want to see what that looks like, look up pictures of All Switch or look up pictures of like the Minnesota Starvation Study. Like that's at a point where you're in a true calorie deficit, but your body will make it up either with exogenous food or stored food. It just depends on how you play the bioenergetics to get the body to tap into that.