IIFYM - Counting Your Macros Is F*CKING Up Your Health!! | Nutrition Facts + Advice (Jason Phillips)

IIFYM. Counting Your Macros Is F*cking Up Your Health. Nutrition Facts and Advice with Jason Phillips for Mind Pump TV. IIFYM Full Day of Eating, Flexible Dieting and Intuitive Eating explained with Nutrition Expert Jason Phillips and Mind Pump's Sal Di Stefano.

#IIFYM

If It Fits Your Macros

What is it? Is it great? Or is it crap??

Macros:
Proteins
Carbs
Fats

IIFYM Bros

Fucked up things:

1 nutrient that’s never talked about is Fiber
Fiber is not sexy

Bodybuilding crowd.
Bodybuilding.com
Bunch of college kids bored out of their minds

Here’s the thing that NOBODY talks about:
Really shredded and look really good on stage
Does NOT equate to optimal health or optimal performance

Yet to see anyone who has yet to break a world record Olympic lifting or powerlifting eating pop tarts and donuts

As your health declines, your appearance gets worse as well
You’re going to look awful
Oxidative stress
Glycation

Do their show, then disappear

Leads to developing a poor relationship with food
Restricted calorie setting
ALL their focused on is what food they’re going to eat
Training takes a back seat
Social life takes a back seat
Health takes a back seat

IIFYM Instagram Pages
Bodies or Food
Donuts, Pizza, Ice Cream
NOT balanced
The key to success and long term success with dieting is sustainability
Emphasis on sugar is going to mess with you long term and reduce longevity
NOT disputing the fat loss argument of that you can look the way you want eating any food
At some point your goals do shift

Prioritize nutrient density

IIFYM for competitors vs nutrient density foods
Look better when you avoid processed foods
Broccoli
Macros with high food quality
Doug Miller - one of the best natural physiques

One of the first thing to teach your clients:
Macros and calories; then progress from their
Can become very obsessive
Intuitive Eating
Best intuitive eaters started with a macros prescription

How do you eat when you travel?
It’s not as hard as people make it
Most people try and justify their cravings

Hyperpalatability = something that tastes really really good

These foods trigger opioid receptors
Food addiction is a very real thing
These companies know that
It will still elicit the same response in your brain

When you avoid processed foods and eat a strawberry or apple, it’s delicious

Just because you can do something doesn’t mean you should

You physically can put anything you want in your macros
Understand there will be ramifications; long term physically & emotionally

Macros are important
Calories are important
BUT they’re not everything
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