IIFYM or just stick to eating clean? | One Good Question

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we have a war boy Wonder and
his question is thoughts Oni f y m

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if it fits your macros or sticking
to proper healthy foods during a cut.

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This question to me feels like almost
like a six year flashback. So when

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I began fitness in whatever two thousand
and eight ish, doing all my own

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research, it was a very strict
meal plan world. You're eating talapia or

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chicken breast, broccoli or asparagus,
and you're eating rice or potatoes. Morning

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is oatmeal and egg whites. And
that's just the only way people talked about

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getting jacked. Twenty ten, twenty
eleven, twenty twelve, something started to

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rumble, and I think it actually
was invented in the Bodybuilt dot com forums

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with some of our friends Matt Ogus, Alberto Nunez, all these guys and

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kind of the Lane. Yeah,
Lane was definitely involved talking about uh if

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it fits your macros, basically just
calculating how you eat and not. Then

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to make a point, that smaller
group would do videos and content showing that

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they can eat, you know,
what would be considered unhealthy food, something

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like a pop tart, and a
pop tart almost became the fucking flag for

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if it fits your macros for a
bit exactly because it's like like it was

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on the diet, no for real, because because it was like the most

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like a processed thing you think of. Right, it's not a you don't

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even know what it is, right, it's some kind of flour sugar concoction.

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Yeah, it's a it's a it's
a very basic pastry. Yeah.

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Yeah, it's like a cookie fake
pastry. Yeah, And so it made

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sense. Or doughnuts were another one
that became very popular, basically showing that

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you could eat these things that were
so highly processed and sugar and fat and

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known to be so bad for you, you could eat them and actually get

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shredded. And that's just you know, kind of basic science. Now.

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Then fast forward you know, another
five years, twenty sixteen, seventeen eighteen,

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and the world, I mean,
I remember having crossfitters who are very

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keto, very uh paleo at the
time on our podcast, and I would

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try to describe macros. I would
even try to describe them to other hosts

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we may have had another podcast,
and they were just dumbfounded that that just

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won't work. I'm like, no, like, you can have a cookie,

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and if we're in these bounds,
we're probably going to be alright're like,

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well, sugar, Sugar's so bad
for you, inflammation, all this

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stuff, right. Yeah. Fast
forward twenty fifteen, sixteen, seventeen eighteen,

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and it seemed like the world kind
of got a handle, like okay,

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we get it. Then maybe twenty
seventeen to twenty twenty, it seemed

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like the real balance started, okay, because then it went overboard, as

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the pendulum always swings, like all
motherfuckers are eating cookies all day and they're

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just chugging protein shakes and hitting their
calories and getting jacked. Like yeah,

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like hypothetically you can get jacked.
But I just literally tweeted it that looking

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fit and being healthy aren't the same, and so obviously some kind of balances

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there, and that's where, if
it fits, your macros really works.

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And the most basic case is something
like fitting ketchup or mayo into a meal.

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Right old bodybuilding stuff, you can't
have anything but mustard and salt and

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pepper. But allowing yourself to track
a little bit of sugar in your ketchup

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to have with your meat probably is
not going to crush you. And even

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beyond that, you know, besides
prep, if you're a pro bodybuilder,

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you can probably have a cookie on
the weekends or a brito from Chipotle.

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Matdoak Is made Chipotle very popular in
that way, making it very trackable.

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Then again, twenty seventeen to twenty
twenty one, twenty twenty two, even

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to now, I would say that
people got a handle of that and the

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world knows what if it fits your
maca crows in. I'm actually surprised how

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many content creators talk about it.
Every single one didn't because back in the

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day they didn't. They were literally
lost on the topic. And I thought,

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and I still think, the gist
is, you know, the eighty

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twenty law people to bring into everything
in life. But the eighty twenty does

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work pretty good when you're talking about
dieting. You know, if we get

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eighty percent single ingredient ish style foods, what's in a potato, just fucking

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potato, right. What's in rice? Just rice? What's in chicken?

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Just chicken? What's in broccoli?
Right? We get whole foods free,

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you know, seventy eighty eighty five
ninety percent of our meals or what's going

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into our fat faces, and then
the other you know, twenty ten to

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twenty percent getting stuff in, whether
that be condiments I catch up barbecue sauce,

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whether that be a sugary coffee drink
every once in a while, whether

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that be a full dessert at a
birthday party or a piece of pizza or

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two. And I think the bigger
topic at hand really is, and this

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is something I've said for a long
time, is that as strict as your

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goals are, is as strict as
your plan needs to be. So eighty

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twenty for the majority of people that
just want to feel pretty good, be

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healthy, and look pretty good is
probably a great target. If you're trying

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to be mister Olympia, that might
go down to ninety nine to one,

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you know, or one hundred zero. You can eat cookies has mister Olympia

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for sure, especially in your off
season. But if you're really trying to

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tap into every single thing. The
chances are that you track it accurately just

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start to go away when it's processed. That's kind of the main goal,

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right, because we can guesstimate how
much sugar and whatever's in this cookie that

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we're eating, but nothing's perfectly evenly
distributed when you're mixing a shit ton of

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ingredients, where chicken breast is pretty
evenly distributed with the macro nutrients involved.

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So I don't even know what the
actual question is. It was best it

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was thoughts on if it fits your
macros or versus. I think it's the

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word that should be there, ye, sticking to a proper healthy foods during

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and cut. So basically, do
you cheat a little bit constantly as long

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as you're accounting for it in your
macros? Or do you just eat clean?

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Yeah? Because then the third one
would be people ate so clean but

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didn't even track or know what's going
on and then have a full binger day.

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Yeah, they'd have a full cheat
day cheat meal, yeah, which

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I think mentally and physically probably is
not the healthiest there. So let's eliminate

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that one. And I think Jim's
right, your question is like or,

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but it should be like and or
and or yeah, And it really comes

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down from my perspective to what works
for you, Like if sticking to your

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diet means that every once in a
while you're having or even the every day

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or whatever something that you think of
as a treat that you're accounting for,

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yep, then then you know,
rock on if that works for you.

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If it doesn't work for you because
it causes you to go into eight like

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a crave spiral about about a particular
thing, like you need a whole sleeve

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of oreos and oreo guilty, you
know, things like that. If that,

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if that's gonna if it's gonna take
you in that road, it's gonna

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take you off the path that you
want to be on in terms of your

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diet, then then don't do that, you know, unless unless you need

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it to make your life normal every
once in a while because you're at a

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party or whatever and you need to, like you need to have a piece

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of the birthday cake. You can
have the small one and you can just

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sort of guesstimate because you know,
I think that you know, looking at

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if it fits your macros. These
days, the smarter move might be if

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it fits your calories, which is
kind of a throwback as long as you're

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hitting your protein. Yeah, a
lot of studies have agreed with that.

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I think it's again depending on your
goals. But let's say we're not competitive

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athletes here or pro athletes. Our
life doesn't depend on it. Carbs and

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fat are pretty much replaceable with each
other. So if you're hitting your calories,

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you're hitting your protein, you can
definitely feed yourself towards whatever goal it

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is, and you can get really
fucking jacked that way and really fucking lean

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that way. If you're a marathon
runner, if you're a pro MMA fighter,

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NBA, something like that, we
probably want to dial in our carbs

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in fat. Again, that's points
erro Zeros are a one percent of the

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world is dependent on their performances to
live, So I agree one percent with

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Jim. I think, uh,
I think there are trigger foods that because

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that was another trend like if it
fits your macro's came about and then people

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are saying fit this stuff in,
and then and then the other world got

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so obsessed with the mental aspect of
dieting and how you can't if you have

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a single I swear to god,
I've read hundreds of Instagram posts and articles

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this way that if if a singler
food bite or look of it triggers an

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emotion in you, then you gotta
eaty, you gotta eating disorder. And

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I'm just like, wow, you
know, I'm human. You know things

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bring emotion, you know, and
that if you can't have one bite of

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something and let it go, that
you have an eating disorder. And I'm

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like, fuck, man, I
think we're all fucked, but I do.

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And then and then it flipped and
people have a little bit more average

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or moderate view on that, and
I do believe in that as well,

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that I think at least you need
to be aware of those feelings. And

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then even for me, I mean
there is stuff I just eliminate from my

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diet. They would say that if
you had to eliminate something from your diet

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to find progress that you have an
eating disorder, then maybe I do.

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I don't know. I'm not a
doctor, but I can't have ice cream

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in my house. I can't have
ice cream. I have one bite,

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I'm having the whole gallon. I
go out for ice cream, and then

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and then I'm gonna find ice cream
somewhere. I'm gonna make it or you

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know, something's gonna be shaking my
milk jug until it's ice cream. Like,

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I'm gonna find a way to do
that, like a fucking addict.

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Because they wouldn't make these arguments with
other addictions, right, like right,

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like, which is just crazy And
I'm no addiction specialist by any means,

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but I've watched a lot of documentaries
and I am interested in that world.

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We're like a heroin addict. They
always say you're an addict for the rest

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of your life. Yeah. Right, that's just like common protocol alcoholism.

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Right. They didn't say you're cured. They didn't say you get over it,

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So why recovering? So if I'm
if I am a food addict,

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and let's say I have an D
hypothetically I've never been diagnosed, and I'm

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not a doctor here, but hypothetically, then why would I just have to

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get over it it and be able
to do one bite of ice cream?

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Oh yeah, that's a good question, right, because you would never say,

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like, oh, Jim, you're
an alcoholic, let's teach you how

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to have one beer. Yeah,
Like, no, they go sober.

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Yeah, because there's something wrong with
the human brain that that doesn't work I

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think that if you are someone who
goes through periods of time where you really

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can't control those kinds of cravings,
and then and then periods of time where

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you can control those kinds of cravings, maybe don't have an eating disorder,

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maybe have an emotional like roller coaster
going on, for sure, and and

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the and the end result should determine
if you need help. Correct, Right,

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are you unhealthy? Is your money, family, or physical health being

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harmed by these trends. Let's go
find some help. Right, And that's

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probably the same with substances. Right, you can love fucking beer and it's

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not affecting your money, your relationships, or your own health. Is it

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an issue? Maybe not right,
and maybe it is, but a long

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story short, I think it's okay
to eliminate some foods for the majority of

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your life. Like you know,
I do better with not eating ice cream

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because I'm gonna eat a shit ton
of it, So I just don't eat

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ice cream but once every quarter.
Yeah, but that doesn't translate you to

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being keto and eating sugar or sell
them eating sugar or whatever, because I

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think that that's for sure that's got
its own like problems. Yep. And

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yeah, the basics of if it
it's your macros for me right now,

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for an example of what we're talking
about is, majority of my day,

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I'm eating some kind of vegetable and
a meat, chicken, beef, et

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cetera. And then right now I
go through rotations. Me and Subots were

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just talking about it off air.
I go through rotations of like a dessert,

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eat type dinner or the type of
meat I'm eating. And right now

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I'm on a Greek yogurt kick don't
love Greek yogurt, but I dump it

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with fruit and I put whip cream
on it. Like is whipped cream healthy?

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Is it bodybuilding? Probably not?
But like the shit in the can

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is fucking like one gram of sugar
per serving, not a whole lot there,

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And I'm a lot of air and
I'm probably putting a bunch in.

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I'm definitely not doing a serving.
But yeah, it's like it's like halo

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top and a can. Right So
I'm doing you know, berries, healthy,

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Greek yogurt quote unquote healthy, and
then whip cream to make it palatable

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for me, but again allows me
to stay on my plan and my calories

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for the day. That's probably the
good cool whip. Yeah, I touch

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you that. Yeah. Yeah.
The boys. The boys never like maybe

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it's like a nineties thing or something, but we just always grew up like

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fruit and cool whip, which is
like an easy dessert that wasn't good,

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you know again, not ice cream, not fucking cake, and even Bart

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I don't think really had it.
And we're we're on one of our trips

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to Texas I think last year,
and we're all going grocery shopping. I

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was like, oh, and I
don't know why. We're on a huge

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fruit kick. Yeah. Everyone was
just slamming fruit that trip. And I

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go through phases of that too,
Like I didn't eat fruit like regularly.

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I'll eat a apple here and there, but like right now, I'm eating

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shit tons of fruit every day.
And we were doing that. I was

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like, bro, just grab some
of this cool whip. It's just life

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changing. Pineapples and cinnamon, yeah, banging, yeah, just little stuff

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like that. Okay, yeah,
yeah, yeah, I'm not a huge

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find a flow that works for you. Again, I'll say this everywhere and

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But if your diet guide nutrition lifting
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shit, and my nutrition and my
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strategies I do and I teach and
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not marketing every single fucking step of
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