What is going on everybody? Welcome back to the Mind Over Macrows Podcast as always. I'm your

host Mike Milner in today's episode I was reminded of something and I want to

share that reminder and it's a really important reminder because

sometimes I forget that I take certain things for granted having done this for a very long time and one of those things that I take for granted is the idea that

most people look at macro tracking, dieting, their nutrition plan as some kind of temporary thing, something that they're on or off,

something that they start and stop and the path from going from that perspective to the this is just something that I do.

This is my forever plan. Now in particular I want to talk about macros because macro tracking is something that a lot of us use as a tool to make changes.

But if we continue to rely purely on that tool, then do we actually know, like, let me give you an example first.

A frequent question that I get asked is do you do meal plans and I say no and then the person inevitably says why and I say because it doesn't teach you anything what do you do without the meal plan? What do you do with real life? What do you do in all these different scenarios where a meal plan can't save you? And like all that following a meal plan taught you how to do was how to eat foods off of a piece of paper or

you know PDF or whatever like cool you can follow instructions that doesn't mean

that you can live your life sustainably and have a healthy lifestyle and achieve your goals and live

happily ever after. It just means you can follow a set of instructions. Now, macros are slightly

different, but you could make the argument that macros are kind of the same thing.

Like what do you do when you're not, like, do you want to track macros for the rest of your life?

Do you want to be in social situations and always be tracking?

And you know a lot of times coaches will say, well no, you just take a day off.

But like even still, do you want to be tracking six, seven days a week?

Do you only want to take a certain, like,

I only stop tracking when I'm on vacation.

I only stop tracking when I go out with friends.

Like, is that, did you learn anything in that scenario?

Or are you still dependent on the tool just like being dependent on a meal plan?

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