Adam Schafer

No, I'm the same.

And this happens a lot when...

you have clients that are only eating 1,500 to 1,900 calories.

Because fat is high calorie, and they're trying to stay within their calorie budget, they end up going lower.

This is another reason why I like focusing on macros a lot of times with clients more so than getting hyper-focused on the calories.

A lot of times you have a client that's hyper-focused on that number with their calories, and they quickly put together like, oh, when I eat these

high-fat meals or fat foods, my calories go away really fast.

And so they steer to the really lean cuts of meat and skip out on the butter, skip out on the olive oil.

They skip out on a lot of these things that are actually really good for us just to keep their calories where they want to.

And you'd be far better off

going over your 1,500-calorie budget to 1,600 to 1,800 calories and hitting your fat targets, then you are trying to get in your calorie range.

Good point.

And I find that the fitness space is so much messaging around, oh, it's all about calorie balance.

And if you eat low enough calories or less than you burn every day, you'll lose weight.

And so you get people that get hyper-focused on that.

And they neglect to hitting a good place of healthy fats for their body.

And here they are trying to cut 200, 300 calories just to hit this calorie budget.

And then they're starving their body of optimal levels of fat, which their body would run so much better.

They would build muscle better.

They would burn body fat better.