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And so today we have a boy war boy wonder and his question is thoughts on I I

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

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

So when I began fitness in whatever, 2008-ish, doing all my own research, it was a very strict meal plan world.

You're eating tilapia or chicken breast, broccoli or asparagus, and you're eating rice or

potatoes.

Morning is oatmeal and egg whites, and that's just the only way people talked about getting

truly jacked.

2010, 2011, 2012, something started to rumble and I think it actually was invented in the

bodybuilding.com forums with some of our friends, Mad Ogis, Alberto Nunez, all these guys, kind of the Lane.

Yeah, Lane was definitely involved talking about if it fits your macros, basically just calculating how you eat and not.

Then to make a point, that smaller group would do videos and content showing that they can eat you know what would be considered

unhealthy food something like a pop tart and a pop tart almost became the

fucking flag for if it fits your macros for a bit.

Exactly.

Because it's like like it was on the diet.

No, for real.

Because it was like the most like a process thing you think of, right?

It's not a cook, you don't even know what it is, right?

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