What is going on, everyone? Welcome to another episode of the fit, healthy, and most of all,

happy podcast. I'm your coach and host Josh here with his co-host and co-coach, Kyle Joseph

Grandin. And I'm having a, you know, calorie-free energy drink right now. I might need to remember

to talk a little slower. I think I'm a little too fired up, but the good news is I'm going to

be teaching

you how to eat to stack on muscle without putting on fat. These are just eight high level tips that

you can implement to really kind of revolutionize your approach to eating, muscle gain, fitness in

general. And these are just eight tips you're definitely going to want to keep to heart because

these are tips that have not only helped me get in great shape, but stay in great shape and do this for thousands of people at this

point which is absolutely fantastic so number one is to evaluate your relationship with food so we're

going to start kind of by looking at a total top down approach here if you will so what I mean by

this is everyone is so different like what is your approach to food? First and foremost, do you love food? What's interesting is like myself, I always say I could probably eat 7,000 calories every day. I love food. I really do love it. I'll just eat, eat, and eat and eat. But I know people that go, I don't care for food. I don't like eating much of it. And they struggle to get in calories, right? Like there are different types of people. There's people that don't like eating a ton, but maybe they like eating a ton on the weekend. Or Kyle, I know has a huge sweet tooth, but he is a lot more self-control when it comes to like pauses and things like that than me. But we're all different. And what I mean by this is when you can acknowledge what are my strengths, what are my

weaknesses, you can kind of adjust.

So even me, I know I love to eat good whole foods.

I really love salty foods, burgers, pasta, pizzas, all these things.

So for me, if this is something I want to have, you know, I need to make sure I'm logging

in advance. I'm logging in advance.

I'm utilizing other tools. Maybe because I like eating more of this, I don't eat dessert. Like there's different ways you can kind of look and say, how am I with food? How can I alter my life to where I can still have success while doing what I like? And this is kind of a higher level tip, I know. but if you really just spend some time thinking about how you are, you can make little adjustments that can really move the needle and help you advance forward. Yeah, absolutely. That's super well said. And I think we all just kind of need to take a bit of a step back and, you know, just figure out what works best for you. Like Josh said, like there's just so many things I've had to kind of set limits on for myself as like I've you know kind of gone for a bit of a lean bulk approach trying to gain muscle like the end of the day none of us you know it is very possible we will put on a little bits of fat when we gain muscle but the goal is to minimize that because the end of the day like it's just it's not worth it I've done it many times I've seen a lot of people do it and it's just nice to keep it nice and lean um and begin as much muscle as physically possible and that brings me into

number two which is simply eliminating empty calories right and this is something that i find a lot of

people struggle with as you know if you kind of look at someone's day there may be five six even

maybe 700 calories worth of just stuff that doesn't really fill you up or add any nutritional value. So I want to kind of just challenge you to look at your eating schedule and just kind of get rid of the stuff that really isn't adding, you know, it's not going to fill you up. It's not adding any protein. You know, it's just kind of a bunch of empty stuff that just kind of goes right through you and that in turn this could be something that ends up forcing you to eat way more and causing you to eat fat while you're trying to gain muscle and i find a lot of times people have this like mindset when they're trying to put on size and muscle and you know just get a little bit um i guess you could say stronger of like oh oh, like it doesn't matter. I'm going to eat anything.

I'm going to eat everything.

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