Nick Bare

You have your fibrous veggies.

Awesome.

Not saying fat is bad, but when you're putting butter and oil and all these things to cook them or saute them, those oils, those fats add up.

If you ever consumed nuts and if you've ever weighed out a serving of nuts, it will depress you.

I eat a serving of macadamia nuts every day in the afternoon.

I do a protein shake, some fruit, macadamia nuts.

If you weigh out one serving of nuts on a scale, which is about one ounce, 28 to 30 grams, it's like nothing.

Nothing.

Granola, not necessarily a fat, but weigh out one serving of granola next time you eat some granola and you realize how small these servings are.

We have multiple food scales sitting around the house, multiple food scales around the office.

I travel with a food scale occasionally just for portion control.

And I think you'd be surprised

how much fat most people are consuming on a daily basis and how little carbohydrates most people are consuming on a daily basis.

Especially if you're trying to keep your carbohydrate sources cleaner and leaner.

Fruit, veggies, oatmeal, rice, potatoes, those are higher volume foods, sometimes lower carbohydrate foods.

You can easily crush 150 grams of carbohydrates in a bag of candy.

But try eating 150 grams of carbohydrates from rice or oatmeal and you're going to be pretty stuffed and uncomfortably full.

So I like to adjust my carbohydrate intake based off of how I'm training for the day.

If I'm training for a particular race or event and the volume and intensity that I'm experiencing daily, weekly, monthly.

There are certain days where I'm not training really hard.