Hello and welcome to the Consistency Project podcast.

I am Patrick Cummings.

I am here with E.C. Sinkowski every week we aim to simplify the principles and practices of nutrition, health, and fitness.

And we thank you for tuning in to this here show this week.

Hi, E.C., how are you?

Hey, great.

Just want you to know that my Fitbit says I've burned approximately a thousand calories today.

And all I've done today is sit here and for about 10 minutes, for about 10 minutes, I've wrestled with my children to get them out of bed.

So that was it for me so far.

You purposely said that to spin me up.

We are going to talk about how accurate calorie counters are, wearables, apps, etc.

As it relates to them telling you how many calories you've burned throughout the day.

Cool?

Yeah, I think so.

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The next cohort starts in January and you can can sign up at optimize mynutrition.com slash accelerator. And it used to be called the masterclass. We've spent approximately five years calling it the masterclass. So folks, if you've heard us talk about the master class, it's now the accelerator. It's better. So jump in. All right, ready?

Let's do it. Where shall we begin other than with the number of calories I've already burned today? Yeah, I mean, if you've been listening to this podcast for a bit, and especially if you've taken the master class now accelerator, you know that I don't use these calculators, apps, wearables to figure out your Fitbit to figure out your caloric needs and we've certainly talked about the process i use in other

episodes um calculators, apps, wearables to figure out your Fitbit, to figure out your caloric needs. And we've certainly talked about the process. I use in other episodes. And we'll put them in the show notes. But I'm not sure we've gone through some of the data and the evidence for my approach. So we're going to talk a little bit more about that. I just assumed you hated technologies. Right. I don't need any more data than that. That's right. I'd like to go back to 1900. You know, how accurate are these calorie trackers and wearables that tell you how many calories you're burning each day? And the short answer is not much. But the better answer here is you don't need them. So stop worrying about them. We have a better way. I think that's really kind of one of the takeaways I'd love for people to really let sink in. It's not just you don't need them. We have a better way. I think that's I think that's really kind of one of the takeaways I'd

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