Jeff Cavaliere

I really enjoy it when I have it, but I'm not depriving myself of it along the way.

If people felt deprived and didn't have it more often, I could have a piece of carrot cake once a week and probably not have anything happen to my physique.

So the fact that I don't is just really more out of habit than anything else.

But if you're in a plan where you feel so deprived that you're pulling your hair out and you're trying to, like the first chance you get to just jump off your diet and eat all the things that you really were keeping yourself away from, then you're on the wrong plan.

which are all good foods, it's just that calorically there's an impact there.

And if you're going to eat them, what I always recommend people do is, again, you could just cut back a little bit on some of the other portion sizes just to accommodate calorically for what you're doing.

But I do think that that concept of the equivalent swaps is big because if you learn to eat the way I just suggested, and there's no magic behind what I do, I've been very consistent with it.

is that you'll be able to make swaps when you go anywhere.

What's a protein I can have here today?

What's the restaurant have?

Oh, they only have pork chops?

OK, fine, I'll have a pork chop.

You're visually just replacing equivalents on the plate.

Sometimes it doesn't always work.

I just did a video where I talked about a steak and a grilled chicken breast are potentially

the same protein in terms of the protein content, but they're not the same calorically because the steak has a lot more fat than the chicken breast does.

So you might have a smaller steak to make that equivalent swap out.

But that's only going to come through your understanding and knowledge of the foods and what they contain.

So that early phase of learning what they have is important there.

But ultimately,