1435 - 1 Powerful Health Awareness You May Not Know Yet

One powerful health awareness you may not know yet , as I've mentioned , at what is it at ? Not at nausea ? At nauseam when you say something very , very often in a short period of time . I have no idea . I need to know that , as a speaker , something I have really beaten to the ground over the last I don't know Year is I am back on my fitness grind .

I am training like a bodybuilder , I am doing mobility . Every day , I'm consuming bodybuilding content , fitness content , nutrition content , and that really was the inspiration for this episode . There is a young man who I've been following for a long time , back in my bodybuilder days . His name is Jeff Nippard and Jeff my man Jeff . We actually met his girlfriend .

In Florida , oh yeah at the supermarket for some reason , and I don't even know how we knew . Are they still together , I believe ? So yeah , at the supermarket .

Alan , I believe you used to follow him back in the day . Mm-hmm , he is yeah , he's very data driven . He makes his decisions and he does his coaching and he makes his content based on data , so actual studies of what works best and what doesn't work best .

And I came across a Video that just hit different for me because I was thinking of the audience , I was thinking of our community , I was thinking of the NLU family and it was Understanding the importance of your maintenance calories . Now , trigger warning , we're gonna talk about calories and tracking calories and Weight and weight loss and that type of stuff .

This isn't gonna be a super in-depth episode on that . It's not gonna be super long , but I know many of our audience members , many of our community , have had negative associations with the scale , with tracking calories , maybe with fitness in general . So I want to throw that that trigger warning , out there .

But After he was talking about maintenance calories and how to find them and all these different things , I went online and I typed Something in about calories . I typed in Does Eating in a deficit cause weight loss ?

Right ? So , for those who don't know , there's an energy balance . The theory and the science for the most part proves that if you eat less calories than you need , you will lose weight if you eat more calories than you need , you will gain weight .

So , just as a simple understanding and you wouldn't believe how many things popped up that were unreasonably confusing Unreasonably confusing from very reputable websites Harvard , harvard was one of them where it said and it's hard because the fine print is there , but it pretty much said that Tracking calories is not as good as eating whole foods .

Pretty much , and the thought behind that is well , if you're eating chicken and you're eating broccoli and you're eating Whole foods , it's harder to consume more calories because you're not eating junk food like pizza and all that stuff . So that's a little bit of a tangent .

The importance and the the reason I wanted to do this episode and the importance of it is , at the end of the day , many of us don't feel like we're in control of our weight , we're in control of our fitness , we're in control of our nutrition .

One of the simplest places for you to start even if you don't want to track calories Obsessively is to understand what is your basic Necessary level of maintenance calories . What is the number where you could eat for the rest of your life and never gain a pound or lose a pound .

That is my goal in this episode is to have an open conversation about that , maybe demystify some of the stuff around it and maybe make it more accessible and realistic . If you whether you're watching or listening imagine a world where you knew Exactly how many calories to eat and what would happen to your body .

Now things do get confusing because when you lose weight , your metabolism changes and your maintenance calories change . There's a lot of intricacies , but that's why I think the layer one is just saying okay , we spend $1,500 a month . We make $1,500 a month . We're not saving any money . We make $100,000 a month . We only spend $5,000 a month .

We're saving $95,000 a month . We think about that when it comes to money and I know our bodies aren't exactly that way , but that's really my thought in this episode . Alan , you did a lot more fitness coaching , nutrition coaching , than I did . Thoughts .

What I've found fascinating in my coaching and in my life is that every decision I make is data-driven and even if I'm wrong on the data , I still am using a lot of data . Layer one , I think , is actually just thinking numbers . When it comes to calories , just start getting in the habit of thinking in numbers . So a banana 120 calories .

An apple is 90 calories . One cup of rice cooked is 170 calories . Again , it's plus or minus a percent error

, so you don't have to be perfect . The first layer is just start thinking in numbers . For Emilia , that has been brand new Emilia and I . Ever since we first met she's been teaching me a lot in the therapy realm , in the inner work realm , in the internal family systems and acceptance and commitment therapy and all the different psychology stuff she's studied .

I'm teaching her math . We simply just do probabilities . She says , well , what's the probability that we get this client ? I say probably like 65% . She said , okay , how do we bump that probability up ? I said let's send them a video .

And so she never used to think in numbers and I used to be so ignorant I didn't think anyone didn't think in numbers because I've never thought any other way . And so I think that's layer one is just practice thinking in numbers .

And if I was starting at a base level of not really having the knowledge I have now and I Googled is eating in a deficit necessary for weight loss ? And what I saw come up , I would be so confused . One of the things said counting calories is not worth it because a lot of the packages are mislabeled .

I understand what you're saying , but then what do you go off of ? Even if the numbers are wrong , at least you get a trend on . Even if you track the same way every single time . It doesn't really matter if the numbers are wrong , because then you can just figure out okay , when I eat 2,400 calories , I gain weight . Okay , let me try 2,300 calories .

What happens ? Even if it's not actually 2,400 calories because the measurement's wrong , you'll still be tracking .

I believe it would be very , very , very empowering to at least understand how something affects you the way it does . That's my thought .

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I'm just saying I do believe the empowerment comes with understanding .

Today I had four ounces of chicken and I had this much rice , and then I had a wrap for lunch and and you know what I want to do breakfast or dinner , I'm gonna have eggs and sausage and a couple pieces of toast , and you know that you have the freedom and flexibility to do that because it makes sense with the numbers .

I'm not telling you to have pup tarts and ice cream every day . That's not what I'm saying . I just want you to have in life , health , wealth and love . Health , wealth and love . There's a recipe . There's a recipe to improve all of those . This is a very early-stage piece to that recipe . This is one of the first ingredients .

If you can start practicing it , I do believe it would be beneficial and it is the fundamental reason you and I can eat a lot of the things we do . And still , I mean , if we're not exercising and we're not exercising hard . We might be in trouble , but we have a lot of certainty around gaining weight .

I'm already thinking when I go to Belgium I'm gonna gain weight 100% . I'm not gonna really track my calories there . Intuitively I'm gonna have an idea , you know a lot of food .

I don't want to be really , really starving myself , and my body's trying to repair itself .

But I do want to share a tool that I think would be really empowering . So that was my goal in this episode . Hopefully we did it . Next up a nation , as we have been mentioning over the last several weeks , alan is still doing free calls with the wonderful NLU community .

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