Is This Actually Food for Humans? | Shawn Stevenson EP 533

The Daily Motivation

Lewis Howes

Education, Self-improvement

4.8 • 893 Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2024

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Shawn Stevenson explains that by focusing on adequate protein intake, we prompt more calorie burning because protein digestion utilizes the most energy. He advises against isolating macros, saying we evolved eating whole foods not calories; real ingredients build better tissues and gene expression. Stevenson notes calorie counts are rough estimates, not precise lab measurements, so quality matters more than quantity for metabolic health. Though calories can loosely guide appropriate intake, he stresses we should ultimately judge food as human fuel versus processed non-food.

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0:00.0	Hi my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.
0:07.0	I'm done 25 pounds and you're like what are you doing? I said well I've just been
0:14.4	consistently on my lifting program and consistently on my nutrition program.
0:19.0	Really being intentional about the consumption of food. I'm trying to stick around 2,000 calories
0:26.2	a day, trying to get about 150 to 200 grams of protein a day, trying to get as much vegetables as I can in there and stay
0:34.4	under 2,000 calories. Stay around 2,000 calories. And by doing that I'm down 25
0:40.0	pounds in 13 weeks. But I'm really consistent with the lifting program that I'm on. I'm also
0:47.5	consistent with getting my steps in, just moving my body, walking more, about 10,000
0:52.1	steps a day.
0:53.2	And I'm really consistent with the nutrition
0:55.0	and optimizing that.
0:56.8	Do you think counting calories is a powerful thing
1:00.6	for optimizing metabolic health and weight loss or should we be thinking
1:06.7	about counting something else? What you just shared right there and something so
1:10.4	powerful that we can miss is the fact that your calories you've shifted
1:14.5	that focus on the protein yes right and there's a lot of infighting has been for
1:19.2	years with fats and carbohydrates and kind of like protein has been like right in the bench
1:23.5	basically you know but in reality why does this matter well proteins are needed to
1:28.1	build your tissues when we talk about hormones where are they they're proteins
1:32.4	when we're talking about enzymes When we talk about hormones, where are they? They're proteins.
1:32.8	When we're talking about enzymes and breaking things down and repairing and things like that,
1:37.9	they're made from proteins. We need to provide that fuel.
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