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Depending on your goals, it is important to look at both macronutrients and micronutrients. If you only look at one variable, you won’t be able to achieve healthy, sustainable weight loss. In today’s episode, co-hosts Vince and Erica discuss the dangers of focusing too heavily on macros, micros, or calories and how getting healthy requires a more rounded approach.
The issue with the conventional weight loss approach is the huge focus on calorie counting and creating caloric deficits. Vince explains that food is medicine and by cutting calories, you are essentially cutting medicine. Vince and Erica discuss the difficulties functional medicine has with meeting people’s goals. People tend to want to focus on improving their appearance and think getting healthy means changing themselves aesthetically. However, oftentimes getting healthy does not equate to losing weight.
Tune into this week’s episode of the E3 Podcast to learn more about the differences between macros and micros and the pitfalls of many popular dieting styles. Today’s food for thought from co-host Vince: “A little bit of everything is okay. At first, as you’re learning, any effort is good effort.”
Quotes
• “The important thing to understand here…is that no one is technically wrong and no one’s technically all right…It has a lot more to do with what your goals are.” (15:37-15:54 | Vince)
• “While calories do make a difference, everybody understands that they do make an impact…When people talk about caloric deficit…the only camp that’s talking about calorie deficit is your doctor which is eat less, move more…they’re only looking at one variable, which is weight loss. And that’s the major problem. So when we have the macro, micro conversations we’re trying to look at a pros/cons of all the variables that exist psychologically, physiologically, aesthetically…so we’re saying with Erica’s program…she looks amazing, she looks better than ever. That is true. We have to add some things to make sure that we don’t lose her health in the process.” (18:50-20:23 | Vince)
• “What you’re looking at is a timeline of society turning to manufactured foods and resting their family’s health on it, not knowing that that’s what they were doing. They were thinking of all sell points. The sell points were to them it was nutritious, inexpensive, and it was quick…Families legitimately didn’t know the dangers of those kinds of foods. And to a certain degree, it’s okay to eat some of those foods. A little bit of everything is okay…At first, as you’re learning, any effort is good effort.” (25:48-26:43 | Vince)
• “You learn as you go, so don’t feel like you have to be the gluten and dairy and this and that right now as a beginner.” (27:25-27:32 | Erica)
• “How many proteins, carbs and fat do I eat based on my output. So that’s where the macro family comes in. But then, I don’t want to be eating all these toxins. I want to have good hormones. I want to feel healthy and be healthy. Well that’s a micro conversation.” (29:19-29:35 | Vince)
• “I always say, I feel like I had less health issues overweight versus what I did when I lost all the weight because of what I did to my body to lose the weight.” (30:30-30:42 | Erica)
• “Sometimes healing somebody is not losing weight. In fact, many times it’s not…(skip to 37:38) The problem that exists in the functional space is they’re not accurate enough to an individual’s needs…so they fail to recognize variation, carb cycling that has to happen, macronutrient needs based on activity. You can’t hand everybody a keto sheet and say here go train resistance six days a week or here eat keto but only eat 1,000 calories, because then you’re not eating enough of the medicine that’s in the keto. Every food is a medicine. So when you deplete calories, you deplete medicine. Remember that. (37:13-38:23 | Vince)
Links
Follow Erica on IG: https://instagram.com/ericafitlove?utm_medium=copy_link
Follow Vince on IG: https://instagram.com/vince_pitstick?utm_medium=copy_link
Learn more about the E3 Podcast: https://instagram.com/e3_podcast?utm_medium=copy_link
Check out our YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/BtZjWT9VYv8
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By Vince Pitstick & Erica LugoDepending on your goals, it is important to look at both macronutrients and micronutrients. If you only look at one variable, you won’t be able to achieve healthy, sustainable weight loss. In today’s episode, co-hosts Vince and Erica discuss the dangers of focusing too heavily on macros, micros, or calories and how getting healthy requires a more rounded approach.
The issue with the conventional weight loss approach is the huge focus on calorie counting and creating caloric deficits. Vince explains that food is medicine and by cutting calories, you are essentially cutting medicine. Vince and Erica discuss the difficulties functional medicine has with meeting people’s goals. People tend to want to focus on improving their appearance and think getting healthy means changing themselves aesthetically. However, oftentimes getting healthy does not equate to losing weight.
Tune into this week’s episode of the E3 Podcast to learn more about the differences between macros and micros and the pitfalls of many popular dieting styles. Today’s food for thought from co-host Vince: “A little bit of everything is okay. At first, as you’re learning, any effort is good effort.”
Quotes
• “The important thing to understand here…is that no one is technically wrong and no one’s technically all right…It has a lot more to do with what your goals are.” (15:37-15:54 | Vince)
• “While calories do make a difference, everybody understands that they do make an impact…When people talk about caloric deficit…the only camp that’s talking about calorie deficit is your doctor which is eat less, move more…they’re only looking at one variable, which is weight loss. And that’s the major problem. So when we have the macro, micro conversations we’re trying to look at a pros/cons of all the variables that exist psychologically, physiologically, aesthetically…so we’re saying with Erica’s program…she looks amazing, she looks better than ever. That is true. We have to add some things to make sure that we don’t lose her health in the process.” (18:50-20:23 | Vince)
• “What you’re looking at is a timeline of society turning to manufactured foods and resting their family’s health on it, not knowing that that’s what they were doing. They were thinking of all sell points. The sell points were to them it was nutritious, inexpensive, and it was quick…Families legitimately didn’t know the dangers of those kinds of foods. And to a certain degree, it’s okay to eat some of those foods. A little bit of everything is okay…At first, as you’re learning, any effort is good effort.” (25:48-26:43 | Vince)
• “You learn as you go, so don’t feel like you have to be the gluten and dairy and this and that right now as a beginner.” (27:25-27:32 | Erica)
• “How many proteins, carbs and fat do I eat based on my output. So that’s where the macro family comes in. But then, I don’t want to be eating all these toxins. I want to have good hormones. I want to feel healthy and be healthy. Well that’s a micro conversation.” (29:19-29:35 | Vince)
• “I always say, I feel like I had less health issues overweight versus what I did when I lost all the weight because of what I did to my body to lose the weight.” (30:30-30:42 | Erica)
• “Sometimes healing somebody is not losing weight. In fact, many times it’s not…(skip to 37:38) The problem that exists in the functional space is they’re not accurate enough to an individual’s needs…so they fail to recognize variation, carb cycling that has to happen, macronutrient needs based on activity. You can’t hand everybody a keto sheet and say here go train resistance six days a week or here eat keto but only eat 1,000 calories, because then you’re not eating enough of the medicine that’s in the keto. Every food is a medicine. So when you deplete calories, you deplete medicine. Remember that. (37:13-38:23 | Vince)
Links
Follow Erica on IG: https://instagram.com/ericafitlove?utm_medium=copy_link
Follow Vince on IG: https://instagram.com/vince_pitstick?utm_medium=copy_link
Learn more about the E3 Podcast: https://instagram.com/e3_podcast?utm_medium=copy_link
Check out our YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/BtZjWT9VYv8