Today's podcast guest is Megan Featherston, who is a sports dietitian that I've worked with

in coaching an athlete that she coached on the nutrition side of things. I coached on the triathlon

training side of things. And Megan is a really, really good follow on Instagram. You can follow

her at Featherstone Nutrition. You can check out her website at

Featherstone Nutrition.com. The reason that I really like her is a couple of things. Number one is

she puts out really good, tangible, tactical advice that you can apply. She also marries that

with really well researched information. So she put up a post a little while ago about

how calorie counting is inaccurate science and cited a number of studies that are supporting

how calorie counting isn't quite accurate. That on the surface makes perfect sense and in the

short term it does work, but in the long run,

it makes us focus on an incorrect metric that is leading to, well, just an unhealthy

association with food and with your body weight.

So we want to talk a lot about that.

I really highly recommend that you go and follow her, check out her

website, and check out what she's doing because she's got such a balanced approach that I think

a lot of people need to take with their approach to nutrition. Now, today's podcast is brought to us

by two podcast sponsors. Our first partner as a product that I use literally every day. I started taking

athletic greens a number of years ago because I wanted to make sure that my base level of nutrients

was well supported. I know that it's hard for a lot of people to assimilate what we eat. It's hard for

a lot of foods to actually have the we eat. It's hard for a lot of foods to actually have

the nutritional density that we had years ago with all the foods. So it's hard for us, even if we

eat a really good diet, and especially if we're putting out big training efforts, to get

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