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The Flexible Dieting Lifestyle Podcast

Macro Friendly Vs "Real Thing"

The Flexible Dieting Lifestyle Podcast

The Flexible Dieting Lifestyle

Health & Fitness, Nutrition, Flexibledieting, Fitness

5635 Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2019

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

In today’s episode, we discuss the debate between “macro friendly” foods and the “real thing.” Once you align yourself to one viewpoint, not only do you see every other perspective as wrong but you’re also not willing to listen to what the other side has to say. After being on and experiencing both sides (3:20) though, I’ve come to realize that the magic is in the middle (5:55). What it comes down to is you making a rational decision based on where you’re currently at. For example, are you going through a dieting phase and looking for more low calorie, macro friendly foods to help satisfy your cravings while hitting your macros? If you are, then it’s okay to go for those foods. However, if you can be a little more flexible and eat the “real thing” then do that - if you want to. At the end of the day, it’s about what’s going to help you reach your goals while living a sustainable lifestyle.

Now that we’ve heard my thoughts, Miguel talks about his (7:02) and what to take into consideration when making a decision. A lot of times, it comes down to taste vs. food volume, so ask yourself how much of a difference there is between the two sides and how important one factor is over the other. At the end of the day, remember that the decision is yours and is all about balance. Moving on, we touch on tracking your macros while eating out (11:55). When you’re out at a restaurant, you can’t focus on eating until you’re full like you would if you were eating the macro friendly version. Instead, you want to eat until you’re satisfied and your craving is crushed. And to wrap up this episode, we emphasize the point that you and your goals are more important than the opinions of others (14:02).

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0:00.0

Welcome to the flexible dotting lifestyle podcast.

0:12.3

I'm your host Zach Rushlow.

0:13.7

I'm with my co-host, Miguel Blakut.

0:15.9

And today we have an interesting topic.

0:18.9

Today we're going to be talking about the idea of there's a religion that has kind of happened

0:25.0

and I've, to be honest, contributed to it.

0:28.7

I've kind of helped create a new category in this fitness space.

0:34.9

I know it's been there, but I've helped it evolve over time. Miguel has seen

0:39.3

it as well. And it's like more of a personal story from me, but something I've seen in the

0:45.7

industry. And me and Miguel talked a lot about this. And it's the idea of the religions that have

0:51.8

happened between eating locale versions of foods, macro-friendly

0:57.0

versions, versus the real thing. And it's become like this debate, this war. It's like,

1:04.0

I only eat the macro-friendly version. Oh, I only eat the real version. Eat the real version.

1:10.0

The macro-friendly version is stupid're you're tricking yourself and it's a weird a weird thing

1:16.9

anything when something anytime when something is put into perspective of it's like a

1:22.2

religion you blind yourself to other things like say for example you align to one religion

1:29.3

all the other religions are wrong you don't take any type of feedback from other

1:37.0

sources it's like my way or the highway and that's kind of how I've seen it and

1:43.0

I've been there.

1:45.0

I remember this 100%.

1:48.2

I remember when I started, actually,

1:51.6

before I go any deeper into the actual topic,

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