Jeff Cavaliere

You're eating things repetitively that are just not healthy or drinking things that are just not healthy.

And when someone asks you to log what you're eating, you become very aware of every calorie you put in your body.

So that's part of it.

The second thing is there's an education that goes into learning how many calories each food has.

I can't tell you how many people, they'll think that chicken parmesan is the same as grilled chicken just because it's chicken.

And they're very different in terms of their caloric impact.

So educating yourself about what those macronutrient profiles look like for whatever food you're having is part of the process too.

Because ultimately where you want to be able to get to is can you make equivalent swaps in your head on the fly wherever you are, right?

That would be nutritional freedom.

As far as what that day would look like, what I try to do is I try to build my base around protein.

I always have.

The reason for that is it's one of those macronutrients that I know I need to build lean muscle.

It's one that I know can provide satiety.

It's one that I know is important to everything I'm trying to pursue and what everyone really should be trying to pursue.

They were trying to be healthy.

So they should base their meal around that first.

Start with your protein.

And I use a visual way of doing that where I just say, hey, take your plate and divide one third of that plate or that meal if you're having it in separate plates or separate dishes.

One third of that meal should come from a lean source of protein.

And that could be chicken, fish, beef, whatever it is that you prefer.