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Alcohol has become such a social item. It’s hard to not go to a dinner with friends, hit up a happy hour after work, or enjoy a romantic night out without alcohol involved. And let’s not get started on the barbecues during the summer and holiday parties in the winter! But can you still consume alcohol in social settings and meet your goals? How does it impact your general lifestyle, or competition athletes? Let’s find out!

It can be easy on the hunt for a fitness-minded lifestyle to adopt the ‘more is better’ mentality. More lifting, more cardio, more restriction… but sometimes, and not to be cliche, less IS more. It can be very easy to get caught up in the #nodaysoff mentality but that can also quickly cause burnout and frustration. The reason for this is our body actually needs time away from the physical strain in order to heal, build, and grow. So finding the balance between activity and recovery is imperative to making fitness a sustainable lifestyle, and what that looks like can vary from person to person. So let’s go ahead and break the myth that #nodaysoff is sustainable and doable and get some perspective on what a long-term sustainable lifestyle can look like.

It may be cliche, but it’s true: If you fail to plan, plan to fail! Meal prepping is a lifestyle habit that lends itself to a lot of success with flexible dieting. Tyler, Lee Ann and myself discuss various methods of meal prepping and offer various scenarios and lifestyle tips to make meal prepping work for you and your journey.

On today’s episode we talk about Macro Budgeting. Similar to balancing your checkbook, it’s helpful to take a look at your daily macros totals and balance them through the day. It’s helpful to be aware of some kind of structure throughout the day or a plan for your food, in order to create a higher level of food nutrient awareness. This awareness will help you to make informed decisions on your food choices for the long-term.

Here at Macro Hack Radio we LOVE carbs. Carbs are friends. Carbs are a necessity. With all of the ‘low carb’ fads that float around seemingly endlessly, we want to debunk the myth that you HAVE to eat low carbs, talk about why carbs are important, and present some situations in which low carbs may temporarily be beneficial but certainly not meant to be a sustainable way of eating.

The word ‘diet’ has become a hot button word that generally signifies suffering, punishing yourself for enjoying food, something that happens for a specific period of time, and is something you turn on and off. Before we delve into more specific topics down the road, we want to break down the word diet to a much broader and simpler concept and remove the potential negative connotations, and present to you OUR definition of the word ‘DIET’

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Meet Tyler and Lee Ann! The voices behind Macro Hack Radio, Coaches at Tyler’s Nutrition Training (Team TNT), and founders of FlexibleDieting.com. Discover their background, experiences, histories, and their WHY behind sharing their knowledge with the world!