Animal vs. Plant Protein, Calorie Tracker Inaccuracies (Apple Watch, Whoop, etc.), and More
Fitness Stuff (for normal people)
Tony and Marianna
4.9 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 11 August 2025
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
It’s Micro-Dose Monday on Fitness Stuff for Normal People where instead of diving deep on just one topic we’re serving up four quick hits you’ve been asking for. Today Marianna and Tony are talking about why you can’t trust calorie trackers and the research that proves it, the truth about plant vs. animal protein quality and why Marianna’s opinion has shifted, the FDA’s new rules for what can legally be labeled “healthy,” and the recent Chobani class action lawsuit that has Marianna rethinking her yogurt habit.
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Timestamps:
(3:26) Why You Can’t Trust Calorie Trackers (and why that’s actually totally okay)
(13:20) “Healthy” Food Label
(25:05) Plant vs. Animal Protein
(37:27) Chobani lawsuit
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | What day is it? |
| 0:01.7 | It's microdose Monday. |
| 0:03.2 | Or where instead of just one focus for the entire length of the episode, we get a little |
| 0:07.3 | microdose of four different topics that you guys have asked us for. |
| 0:11.7 | Specifically today, breaking down why you can't trust calorie trackers and the research |
| 0:16.4 | on just how inaccurate they really are. |
| 0:18.9 | Plant-based versus animal-based protein quality, something I've recently actually changed my |
| 0:23.1 | mind on quite a bit. |
| 0:25.0 | New FDA labeling regulations for quote-unquote healthy foods and a look into the recent |
| 0:30.0 | Chobani class action lawsuit that I have not looked into myself yet. |
| 0:34.3 | Mariana brought this to the table. |
| 0:36.0 | Scared me a little bit because I live off |
| 0:37.8 | those little Oikos Greek yogurt protein bags. But before that, if you haven't joined FS Premium, |
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| 1:02.6 | We'll leave a link for that in our show notes down below this episode. |
| 1:05.2 | And if you are on Spotify, you can comment on these episodes and we can comment back now, |
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| 1:12.3 | question if there's a topic you want us to cover in our next microdose Monday you could leave that |
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