October 7, 2025 • 22 mins
Welcome to the "You’re Not Gonna Make It" podcast, where I discuss topics that make you feel like humanity’s not gonna make it.
This episode: Plan D(eez nuts).
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Kevin Tejada:
Meal plans, the way that they are. (00:28):
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Speaker1: Do more harm than good. (00:30):
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Kevin Tejada: Now, the concept of planning your meal is obviously fucking awesome. (00:32):
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Kevin Tejada: But what I'm talking about is those restrictive meal plans. You have this whole (00:37):
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Kevin Tejada: list of things that someone else gave you saying, hey, eat 120 grams of salmon, 100 blah, blah, blah. (00:41):
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Kevin Tejada: Basically, it's a shopping list, a recipe list, all in one. You would think, (00:47):
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Kevin Tejada: oh my God, that's so awesome. I just follow this and I'm good. (00:52):
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Kevin Tejada: But I hope if you take about five seconds, you can see the issue with that. (00:56):
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Kevin Tejada: Let's say you wanted to become a marathon runner. You just talk to a guy who (01:00):
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Kevin Tejada: runs marathons. He'll give you a list of everything he does. (01:06):
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Kevin Tejada: And you're like, oh, I just do this and I'll be good. (01:08):
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Kevin Tejada: Yeah, maybe. But that's not going to be fun. It's not going to be your style. (01:11):
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Kevin Tejada: It's not going to be enjoyable for you as a person necessarily. (01:15):
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Kevin Tejada: This is what worked for that person. And yes, it might work for most people, (01:19):
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Kevin Tejada: but most people do not behave the same way or eat the same. (01:23):
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Kevin Tejada: As you can guess here, meal plans as an idea, I think are fine, (01:27):
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Kevin Tejada: but the way that they are in terms of how restrictive they are, (01:33):
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Kevin Tejada: I am not a fan of. I think that will mess you up more than help you. (01:37):
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Kevin Tejada: Now, if you go to my website, sign up for my newsletter, there's (01:40):
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Kevin Tejada: a free meal prep guide there and I (01:44):
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Kevin Tejada: call it meal prep guide not meal plan because gives (01:47):
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Kevin Tejada: you a bunch of stuff and you can kind of mix and match as you want it's more (01:50):
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Kevin Tejada: like a flexible meal suggestion sheet I personally think this is much better (01:55):
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Kevin Tejada: and I'm biased of course but if you give someone a a definitive meal they must match. (02:00):
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Kevin Tejada: It might be tough. Hey, I couldn't get fish today. Hey, I had 90 grams of oatmeal (02:10):
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Kevin Tejada: instead of the 112 that was set on the guide or the plan. (02:15):
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Kevin Tejada: If things are perfect down to the number, it can be easy to kind of fall off, (02:21):
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Kevin Tejada: especially when it's something as scientific as cooking. (02:26):
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Kevin Tejada: And some people say cooking is an art, but that's only partly true. (02:30):
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Kevin Tejada: It's mostly a science. It's literally chemistry. (02:34):
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Kevin Tejada: What I'm saying is if you need, if you're saying, oh, you need to these exact (02:37):
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Kevin Tejada: ingredients for this exact thing, that's just, it's not going to happen for most people. (02:40):
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Kevin Tejada: It is way too rigid. And yes, some meal plans, they have options and blah, (02:44):
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Kevin Tejada: blah, blah. Those can be much better. (02:49):
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Speaker1: Of course. But if you give (02:51):
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Kevin Tejada: Someone a list of saying, hey, you want to lose weight, gain weight, (02:53):
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Kevin Tejada: muscle, whatever, follow this exact thing, buy these exact foods, (02:56):
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Kevin Tejada: cooking this exact way with these exact portions (03:00):
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Kevin Tejada: that's fucked up now i'll (03:04):
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Kevin Tejada: admit for some people they eat like complete dog (03:07):
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Kevin Tejada: shit and if they can follow the instructions this can be a humongous help for (03:10):
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Kevin Tejada: them but most people are not like that they're used to eating however they eat (03:14):
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Kevin Tejada: and they see this list and they're like oh this is homework are you kidding (03:18):
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Kevin Tejada: me and they're just not going to follow it perfectly anyway so what's the point (03:22):
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Kevin Tejada: of that granular detail if it's not going to be follow. (03:26):
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Kevin Tejada: That defeats the purpose of the plan, depending how rigid it is. (03:29):
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Speaker1: To me, hopping on a meal plan (03:33):
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Kevin Tejada: Is almost the exact, it is the exact same thing as hopping on a diet, usually a fad diet. (03:36):
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Kevin Tejada: And by that, I mean, you're taking a person who has this life, (03:41):
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Kevin Tejada: who has this preference, who has this background with food. (03:45):
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Speaker1: Whatever it is. (03:49):
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Kevin Tejada: You're saying, hey, fuck all that. Look at this list of stuff that I say is (03:50):
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Kevin Tejada: good, even though you can accomplish a lot of good stuff in terms of health (03:54):
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Kevin Tejada: and weight loss with a bunch of different options. (03:58):
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Kevin Tejada: Here's what you need to do. And they look at it and they're like, (04:00):
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Kevin Tejada: I don't fucking like pork chops. I guess I'm fucked. (04:03):
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Kevin Tejada: If a person who has a perfectionist problem gets a meal plan, (04:08):
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Kevin Tejada: they're either going to follow it to the T and it could be cool or they're going (04:12):
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Kevin Tejada: to be like, I can't do this part. (04:17):
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Kevin Tejada: So, you know what? I'm just not going to follow it, which is fine. (04:18):
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Kevin Tejada: They can adjust as they want, but it's not going to follow the plan. (04:21):
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Kevin Tejada: It's not going to get the results that they wanted because you're not following the exact plan. (04:24):
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Kevin Tejada: By the way, have you ever looked at most meal plans? It's all basically the same shit. (04:27):
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Kevin Tejada: I mean, that is to say a lot of the stuff on meal plans is what's good for most (04:32):
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Kevin Tejada: people, but it's kind of all the same shit. (04:37):
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Kevin Tejada: Oh, here, I have a chicken breast, have a cup of broccoli, have some oatmeal (04:38):
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Kevin Tejada: in the morning with a little bit of granola and honey. (04:43):
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Kevin Tejada: And later in the day, have some whole wheat bread with organic peanut butter, (04:46):
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Kevin Tejada: a side of salmon. Like, it's the same shit every time. (04:51):
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Kevin Tejada: Except they attach numbers to them and get the way all that shit out which is (04:55):
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Kevin Tejada: annoying for a person who is just hopping on a meal plan now i personally think (04:59):
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Kevin Tejada: weighing stuff out is fucking great tracking food is fucking awesome that's (05:03):
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Kevin Tejada: how you prepare yourself to actually accomplish your goal you keep track of things, (05:07):
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Kevin Tejada: But in my opinion. (05:13):
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Speaker1: Hopping on a meal (05:15):
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Kevin Tejada: Plan is way tougher than just starting to track your calories to begin with. (05:15):
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Kevin Tejada: Because think about it. If you're asking someone who's a complete newbie to, (05:21):
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Kevin Tejada: let's say, weight loss or caring about their food to track their calories, (05:24):
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Kevin Tejada: they think, OK, I'm just going to keep eating what I'm eating. (05:28):
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Kevin Tejada: And then I just scan this thing, measure this thing, and then I keep a log of (05:31):
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Kevin Tejada: this and then I can see what's going on. (05:35):
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Speaker1: Cool. (05:38):
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Kevin Tejada: And then they can make adjustments based on that because they're like, (05:38):
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Kevin Tejada: oh, my God, the way I eat, I'm going to gain two pounds per month. (05:41):
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Kevin Tejada: That's, oh, you know, maybe I can change this. This is a big number here. (05:45):
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Kevin Tejada: And I don't, you know, this, I know this isn't very healthy. (05:49):
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Kevin Tejada: I can probably reduce this or swap it with something else. (05:51):
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Kevin Tejada: You know, it basically lets people learn what about their diet or what their (05:54):
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Kevin Tejada: current eating patterns is doing for them in terms of their goal, (05:59):
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Kevin Tejada: whether it's pushing them towards their goal or pushing them away. (06:04):
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Speaker1: But if you hop (06:07):
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Kevin Tejada: On a meal plan first of all i notice (06:08):
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Kevin Tejada: with a lot of meal plans i know some do but a lot of them don't even include (06:11):
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Kevin Tejada: the calorie amount on there which is fucking crazy if you're gonna measure shit (06:14):
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Kevin Tejada: out and you don't even include the calories like what the fuck is i know i know (06:17):
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Kevin Tejada: a bunch do but most don't i've seen a bunch and i'm surprised they don't mention (06:21):
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Kevin Tejada: the calories at all just meal stuff which i guess the intention is to not overwhelm (06:26):
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Kevin Tejada: a person but you're telling them exactly what to buy, what to cook, what to eat, (06:31):
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Kevin Tejada: when to eat it. So you're long past that point. (06:34):
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Kevin Tejada: Anyway, with the calorie stuff, the person doesn't really have to change what (06:37):
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Kevin Tejada: they're doing or change what they're eating right away. (06:41):
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Kevin Tejada: Just they kind of observe what's going on and they can make. (06:44):
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Speaker1: Changes from there, right? Now with the meal plan stuff, (06:47):
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Kevin Tejada: They're changing everything and tracking their food. (06:50):
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Speaker1: God forbid you (06:54):
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Kevin Tejada: Tell them to track their fucking calories while they're on the meal plan too. (06:55):
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Kevin Tejada: That's going to overwhelm the hell out of them. (06:58):
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Kevin Tejada: It would be ideal probably if for some reason you understand this exact person's (06:59):
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Kevin Tejada: preferences needs and goals and all that there are probably some nutritionists (07:03):
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Kevin Tejada: listening right now saying yeah that's what the point is yes. (07:09):
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Speaker1: Fair enough. (07:13):
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Kevin Tejada: If you've spoken to this person, you understand what they like, (07:14):
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Kevin Tejada: understand what they need, understand their habits or patterns, whatever. (07:18):
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Kevin Tejada: You know them food-wise. (07:21):
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Kevin Tejada: Yeah, you could probably come up with a decent meal plan for them. (07:24):
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Kevin Tejada: I still prefer just kind of having meal suggestions instead because I believe (07:27):
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Kevin Tejada: flexibility is incredibly important when you're making life changes. (07:33):
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Kevin Tejada: And I consider food a life change because you eat multiple times a day if you (07:38):
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Kevin Tejada: change that you're making a huge change to your life, (07:43):
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Kevin Tejada: for me i have kind of a a building blocks mindset when it comes to my eating and. (07:46):
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Speaker1: Like i said on (07:54):
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Kevin Tejada: My website you know check in the link in the description you can go there sign (07:55):
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Kevin Tejada: up and then you'll get a meal prep guide along with other stuff i name it in (07:58):
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Kevin Tejada: there like the building blocks type thing where it's like this is like the this (08:02):
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Kevin Tejada: is this is a food group that's pretty good high protein, whatever. (08:05):
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Kevin Tejada: This is this, this is this, is this swap them in, whatever, whatever you want to do. (08:09):
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Kevin Tejada: Now that one is obviously more specific because I'm not just, (08:13):
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Kevin Tejada: I'm not just going to say, Hey, eat, eat, eat a bunch of protein here. (08:16):
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Kevin Tejada: This is a block, put this next to a bunch of vegetable like that. (08:20):
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Kevin Tejada: That's completely useless. (08:23):
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Kevin Tejada: So it's a bit more specific, but what I just said is kind of how I do it. (08:25):
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Kevin Tejada: I think, okay, I got to get a bunch of protein in that can either be, (08:29):
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Kevin Tejada: you know, a bunch of chicken, the fish or protein shake or something, get that in. (08:32):
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Kevin Tejada: Now you're going to get some fats in. That's going to be through some nuts, (08:37):
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Kevin Tejada: olive oil, ghee, something like that. (08:42):
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Kevin Tejada: Carbohydrates are very plentiful. Vegetables are carbs and you can just get (08:44):
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Kevin Tejada: that from fucking anywhere. (08:49):
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Kevin Tejada: So the carbs are the stuff I worry about the least because you can, (08:50):
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Kevin Tejada: you can get that in pretty easily, probably without trying. (08:53):
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Kevin Tejada: And again, just to remind you, most foods have a mix of proteins, (08:56):
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Kevin Tejada: fats, and carbohydrates. So don't just separate foods out like that. (09:00):
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Kevin Tejada: That's not what I'm saying. I'm saying foods that are primarily a certain macronutrient, (09:03):
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Kevin Tejada: then, you know, I kind of, (09:08):
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Kevin Tejada: mix and match what I want for that day for that meal. (09:10):
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Kevin Tejada: For example, I'm not going to have a meal that's just all fast or whatever. (09:14):
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Kevin Tejada: Like I'm not going to have a, like a mug of nuts with a side of olive oil. (09:17):
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Speaker1: Like obviously something (09:22):
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Kevin Tejada: Should change there. Unless I actually just thought about this, (09:24):
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Kevin Tejada: this would be an interesting experiment. You had three meals a day. (09:27):
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Kevin Tejada: Each meal is a macronutrient. So one meal is like full on insane amounts of (09:31):
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Kevin Tejada: protein. The other one is just all carbohydrates. The other one's just all fats. (09:36):
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Kevin Tejada: You have it in the correct ratio. I mean, that would work, I guess. (09:39):
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Kevin Tejada: It'd be fucking weird, but that'd be interesting to try out. (09:43):
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Kevin Tejada: Anyway, I wouldn't do that, but it could be a fun, be a fun experiment. (09:46):
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Kevin Tejada: But imagine I did that, right? I'm like, hey, here's my meal plan. (09:51):
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Kevin Tejada: First meal, shit ton of protein. Second meal, bunch of carbohydrates. (09:54):
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Kevin Tejada: Last meal. Here's some fats. That way the proteins help you keep full then the (09:59):
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Kevin Tejada: carbohydrates that get you the energy boost throughout the day and then at the (10:05):
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Kevin Tejada: end you get the fats to help you last till night time, (10:07):
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Kevin Tejada: and usually the exact foods blah blah blah imagine I said that and you're like (10:10):
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Kevin Tejada: fuck I don't want to do that, (10:14):
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Kevin Tejada: I'm not eating a whole ass salmon in the morning what the fuck, (10:16):
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Kevin Tejada: I mean I would but a lot of people they have the whole oh breakfast is for breakfast (10:20):
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Kevin Tejada: foods so and again it's a preference thing so it wouldn't work for everyone (10:24):
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Kevin Tejada: that's why I'm not really a fan of the meal prep stuff I've been going way off (10:28):
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Kevin Tejada: fucking format for this episode I'm just complaining about. (10:31):
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Speaker1: Meal plan and stuff. (10:35):
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Kevin Tejada: But yeah, if you hop on a meal plan, the same thing if you hop on a diet. (10:36):
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Kevin Tejada: At the beginning, if you follow it even halfway, compared to the shit way you (10:39):
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Kevin Tejada: were probably eating before, you're going to see some quick changes. (10:43):
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Kevin Tejada: A lot of those changes, however, will be due to water weight. (10:47):
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Kevin Tejada: You lose maybe a bit of muscle or because of the carbohydrates you're not, (10:51):
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Kevin Tejada: consuming again that comes to the water weight part as well and the hunger aspect (10:55):
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Kevin Tejada: is going to be changed up depending on the ratio of stuff you're eating blah (10:59):
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Kevin Tejada: blah blah and just a reminder if you stop eating like carbohydrates are great (11:03):
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Kevin Tejada: but if you reduce them because of this fucking meal plan shit or a diet yeah (11:07):
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Kevin Tejada: you'll lose a bunch of weight kind of quickly because carbohydrates. (11:11):
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Kevin Tejada: Are responsible for a lot of the water you have in your body so (11:15):
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Kevin Tejada: you cut those out you have less water in your body you (11:19):
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Kevin Tejada: have less water weight less weight you can see (11:22):
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Kevin Tejada: the connection here right but you need carbohydrates to fucking hydrate your (11:25):
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Kevin Tejada: body because it should be like two-thirds 70 percent water so (11:27):
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Kevin Tejada: don't get crazy i'm gonna play (11:30):
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Kevin Tejada: devil's advocate here strict plans are the only way that i can lose weight flexibility (11:33):
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Kevin Tejada: just means excuses this isn't interesting come on because this person sounds (11:40):
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Kevin Tejada: very self-aware they're thinking hey yeah if i don't follow a complete list, (11:46):
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Kevin Tejada: I'm going to go way off track. So yeah, I got to follow a strict plan. (11:51):
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Kevin Tejada: You know what, man, if you're this self-aware, this could actually be helpful for you. (11:54):
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Kevin Tejada: So I'm not even going to go against this, but I will suggest for this person, (11:58):
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Kevin Tejada: please have some more flexibility in your life. (12:02):
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Kevin Tejada: But until you get there, I mean, Hey, you understand what's going on. (12:06):
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Kevin Tejada: So I'm not even going to, I'm. (12:09):
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Speaker1: Not even going (12:11):
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Kevin Tejada: To talk shit about this one. That's a, that's fair for that specific kind of (12:11):
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Kevin Tejada: person. Cutting out food groups is healthy if those foods are bad for you. (12:14):
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Kevin Tejada: Depends what you mean by food group if you can if you can group together like (12:19):
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Kevin Tejada: whatever the fuck pop tarts and oreos are if that's a food group then i would (12:23):
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Kevin Tejada: i would mostly agree with you but in general food groups can't really be bad it's. (12:28):
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Speaker1: More about the (12:34):
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Kevin Tejada: Quality of the food itself personally and i've probably said this before that (12:34):
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Kevin Tejada: there are bad foods shit foods whatever that's for that's you know just to make a statement Amen. (12:39):
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Kevin Tejada: In black and white to just make the point that some foods are not great for you. (12:46):
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Kevin Tejada: But to add some nuance to this, I don't actually think that there are foods (12:49):
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Kevin Tejada: that are bad, just foods that are a bad bang for buck. (12:53):
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Kevin Tejada: For example, Oreos, like I like to bring up, tastes great, but you know, (12:58):
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Kevin Tejada: that little cookie is like 65, 70 calories, doesn't fill you up for shit, makes you want more. (13:02):
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Kevin Tejada: It's completely devoid of nutrition in any way. (13:08):
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Kevin Tejada: So yeah, you get a bit of you get a bit of nice taste right but then (13:13):
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Kevin Tejada: there's just nothing good about at all it's a (13:16):
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Kevin Tejada: bad bang for buck and this can apply to a (13:19):
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Kevin Tejada: lot of other foods too so i don't you know i don't think (13:22):
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Kevin Tejada: food groups are unhealthy necessarily unless you're (13:25):
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Kevin Tejada: able to group it in as like junk food then (13:28):
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Kevin Tejada: maybe but even then those can (13:31):
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Kevin Tejada: serve a purpose if you're starving right like if you if you're literally (13:34):
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Kevin Tejada: coming out of the desert you've been starving and the (13:36):
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Kevin Tejada: only thing you can ease a pack of oreos that's going to be fucking fantastic (13:39):
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Kevin Tejada: for your for your body in that moment because it's going to get a bunch of fucking (13:43):
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Kevin Tejada: energy so it can't be bad it's depending on the situation and what you're trying (13:46):
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Kevin Tejada: to do discipline builds resilience cheat days are a lack of willpower discipline does build resilience. (13:51):
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Speaker1: Cheat days are lack of willpower. (14:00):
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Kevin Tejada: I never really got into the whole cheat day, cheat meal thing. (14:01):
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Kevin Tejada: Because that implies that you're on a very strict diet or whatever. (14:04):
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Kevin Tejada: And then you're just like, eh, I'm going to eat like shit right now. (14:08):
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Kevin Tejada: I just kind of eat what I want to. (14:13):
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Kevin Tejada: But at this point in my life, I eat mostly things that are pretty good for me and go towards my goals. (14:16):
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Kevin Tejada: So if I want to eat, you know, a pastry or whatever, it's not going to be, (14:22):
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Kevin Tejada: oh, it's a cheat meal. It's just this is a thing that I want to eat. (14:27):
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Kevin Tejada: This, this one in particular is not fantastic for, you know, (14:30):
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Kevin Tejada: my, my goal or today's energy, but I'm just going to eat it because it'll be (14:34):
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Kevin Tejada: pretty, it'll be pretty, it'll be fine, you know, for today. That's fine. (14:39):
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Kevin Tejada: I don't really consider that. I mean, people think that's like a cheap meal thing. (14:42):
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Kevin Tejada: I just think it's eating something that's not a hundred percent aligned with (14:46):
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Kevin Tejada: what you want to do, but it's for a different reason. (14:49):
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Kevin Tejada: Maybe it's fun. Maybe it tastes good. I don't know. (14:52):
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Kevin Tejada: Maybe it's the same thing. just semantics here honestly but. (14:55):
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Speaker1: Cheat days are (14:58):
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Kevin Tejada: Weird like what I just said I guess you could say (15:00):
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Kevin Tejada: for me like cheat meals are a fine thing (15:03):
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Kevin Tejada: but cheat days like what does that mean like literally the whole day you're (15:06):
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Kevin Tejada: eating complete dog shit you're eating pizza with chips on it or something I (15:09):
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Kevin Tejada: have no idea what necessarily that is the closest I have is when I go play board (15:13):
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Kevin Tejada: games with my buddies and we eat a shit ton of snacks but there's some good (15:18):
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Kevin Tejada: stuff there you know like a lot of vegetables and other stuff but uh, (15:22):
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Kevin Tejada: yeah maybe the amount of chips that uh exist there would consider it would make (15:26):
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Kevin Tejada: that a whole cheat day but i don't think i don't think in those ways the lack (15:31):
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Kevin Tejada: of willpower i mean if you're, (15:35):
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Kevin Tejada: eating foods that don't 100 align with your goal i mean that's just gonna happen (15:38):
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Kevin Tejada: that's fucking life you unless you eat astronaut food that's specifically made (15:42):
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Kevin Tejada: for your stuff all the time it's just gonna happen whether you like it or not (15:46):
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Kevin Tejada: but if you choose to do to eat something that's not completely aligned, (15:51):
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Kevin Tejada: I think it should be because you chose to do it. (15:55):
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Kevin Tejada: If a lack of willpower is an issue, and I would recommend keeping different (15:58):
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Kevin Tejada: food in your home, to be honest. (16:02):
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Kevin Tejada: Quick results keep you motivated. Moderation always fails for me. (16:04):
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Kevin Tejada: Well, this person's fucking stupid. (16:08):
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Kevin Tejada: What do you mean quick results always keep you motivated? (16:10):
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Kevin Tejada: What the fuck does that mean? You constantly swap methods so that you're constantly (16:14):
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Kevin Tejada: changing and making results. You hop from fad diet to fad diet or something. (16:20):
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Kevin Tejada: I don't know what the fuck. I don't know who exists in this way. (16:24):
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Kevin Tejada: Moderation always fails for me. It sounds like an addict or something. (16:27):
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Kevin Tejada: That's a different problem than quick results. (16:29):
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Kevin Tejada: Anyway, this person is stupid. Let me give you some numbers. (16:33):
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Speaker1: As of 2018, (16:37):
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Kevin Tejada: About 17% of Americans were on a special diet. (16:39):
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Kevin Tejada: And rates were higher amongst women (16:43):
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Kevin Tejada: and as people got older that rate (16:46):
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Kevin Tejada: also increased again because women are targeted often and (16:50):
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Kevin Tejada: increase with age i guess people are getting more desperate with (16:54):
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Kevin Tejada: age or they're being told hey you're old you can't do shit now you (16:56):
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Kevin Tejada: must follow this exact plan oh this was interesting in one study up to 85 of (16:59):
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Kevin Tejada: women with restrictive eating like these kinds of meal plans developed osteopenia (17:06):
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Kevin Tejada: or osteoporosis which are bone loss and fracture risk so basically your bones (17:11):
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Kevin Tejada: become weak and brittle probably. (17:17):
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Kevin Tejada: Meal plans they were restricting things that would help with bone growth this (17:20):
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Kevin Tejada: that is super interesting to me adults who followed an eight-hour eating window (17:25):
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Kevin Tejada: time-restricted eating had a 91 higher 91 percent higher risk of cardiovascular (17:29):
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Kevin Tejada: death compared to typical 12 to six hour eaters, (17:35):
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Kevin Tejada: according to a recent American Heart Association analysis of 20,000 people. (17:39):
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Kevin Tejada: So this is implying that intermittent fasting is not good. (17:43):
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Kevin Tejada: Now, I was just going to make a guess, but I decided to look into this article (17:47):
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Kevin Tejada: more because it's crazy. (17:52):
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Kevin Tejada: And it turns out that my guess was kind of right. But. (17:54):
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Speaker1: Basically, a lot (17:58):
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Kevin Tejada: Of the reasons for this was for things outside of just literally the time eating, (17:59):
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Kevin Tejada: like whether they ate in eight hours or 16 hours, it was for other kind of reasons (18:04):
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Kevin Tejada: outside of the actual food timing. (18:10):
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Kevin Tejada: For example, some people were squeezing their food in so they didn't get enough nutrients. (18:13):
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Kevin Tejada: Some people who were partaking in something like this are already kind of stressed (18:18):
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Kevin Tejada: to begin with or open to stressing themselves out more. (18:21):
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Kevin Tejada: And just the physical stress of rapidly, rapidly and taking calories in a short (18:26):
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Kevin Tejada: burst could stress the cardiovascular system, whatever. (18:30):
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Kevin Tejada: Basically, the people who died from this are fucked up and have other problems (18:33):
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Kevin Tejada: because the actual time that you're eating is not great. But this kind of relates to what I was saying. (18:39):
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Kevin Tejada: If you are going about it in this way, in a restrictive way, (18:45):
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Kevin Tejada: there are going to be other issues associated with it that are not necessarily tied to the food. (18:48):
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Kevin Tejada: Because if you follow the food plan exactly as it is, and you're a robot, (18:52):
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Kevin Tejada: It can work out pretty fine, but we're humans and things need to change and (18:55):
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Kevin Tejada: adjust and all this kind of stuff, (19:00):
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Kevin Tejada: which means following a set directive can have negative side effects because (19:01):
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Kevin Tejada: we're not necessarily built to follow programming in that way. (19:06):
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Kevin Tejada: Time-instricted eating is totally fine, by the way, if you're not stupid. (19:10):
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Kevin Tejada: I remember when I was in college, when I was losing my hundred pounds, (19:13):
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Kevin Tejada: I think I was in my second half of this, like the last 50 pounds. (19:18):
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Kevin Tejada: I believe I was eating between Like 1pm And 4pm So about a 3 Sometimes a 4 hour (19:21):
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Kevin Tejada: eating window I would basically wake up late Because I was a fucking college student. (19:30):
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Kevin Tejada: Head to the gym, exercise, go back home. It would be, you know, (19:35):
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Kevin Tejada: noon or 1 p.m. Then I would basically eat for three hours. (19:39):
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Kevin Tejada: And then I'd be done. What I mean is not, I wouldn't be eating for the straight (19:44):
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Kevin Tejada: three hours, but just like in that period, I'd be like, oh yeah, (19:47):
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Kevin Tejada: I want some more. I want some more food. I'm getting this, blah, blah, blah. (19:49):
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Speaker1: And then after that, (19:53):
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Kevin Tejada: I'd be like, well, I'm done. And it was fun. Anyway, that's that. (19:53):
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Kevin Tejada: Pulled me on a tangent here. (19:58):
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Kevin Tejada: Yeah, blah, this, yeah, it's fucking, it's fad diet shit. It's the same thing. (20:00):
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Kevin Tejada: Meal plans. It's just, I guess not a fad, it's just some diet that you get on. (20:04):
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Kevin Tejada: From someone else though, someone else's opinion, someone else's preferences, (20:08):
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Kevin Tejada: blah, blah, blah. Even if it's science backed, doesn't matter if you don't follow it. (20:11):
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Kevin Tejada: We know all the science for fucking weight loss and fitness, (20:15):
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Kevin Tejada: but everyone's fat and weak. So the science doesn't matter. It's about what (20:17):
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Kevin Tejada: actually works with your life. (20:21):
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Kevin Tejada: That's the thing most people don't understand. We have all fucking knowledge (20:23):
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Kevin Tejada: in the world in our pockets. (20:27):
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Kevin Tejada: You can ask AI, make me a meal plan. I want to do this, make me a meal plan. (20:28):
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Kevin Tejada: Are you going to follow it? Probably the fuck not. (20:32):
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Speaker1: Let's be real. (20:34):
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Kevin Tejada: What would be way better is for you to understand what it means to actually (20:35):
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Kevin Tejada: lose weight, gain weight, whatever you're trying to do. (20:39):
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Kevin Tejada: Make some observations about what you already do and then make changes here (20:42):
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Kevin Tejada: and there to make it more likely that you will actually head towards your goal. (20:46):
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Kevin Tejada: So just fuck the meal plan shit. Definitely check out my meal prep guide though. (20:53):
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Kevin Tejada: I love mixing and matching. For me, I'm a person who, if you give me all the (20:58):
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Kevin Tejada: freedom in the world, I'm just going to not do anything. That's why I never (21:03):
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Kevin Tejada: got into Minecraft or whatever. (21:06):
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Kevin Tejada: Because it's like, hey, you can do anything. I'm like, okay, (21:07):
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Kevin Tejada: I'm going to build a hill, I guess. I don't know. (21:10):
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Kevin Tejada: Give me full creative control. I don't know what the fuck to do. (21:14):
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Kevin Tejada: You give me an exact list, like a script. (21:16):
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Kevin Tejada: I'm like, well, I'm not a fan of this specific part. I wish I could change it, (21:18):
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Kevin Tejada: but this sucks. I'm not a fan of that either. (21:22):
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Speaker1: But if you give me guidelines, (21:26):
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Kevin Tejada: Guide rails, suggestions, I'd be like, okay, yeah, I want to do this, (21:29):
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Kevin Tejada: this, this, and then this will work a bit better. Okay, yeah, I got it. Here it goes. (21:32):
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Kevin Tejada: That's me personally. That's what I find to work best for most people. (21:35):
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Kevin Tejada: So what I suggest is you make your own meal plan. And by that, (21:40):
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Kevin Tejada: I mean your own meal suggestions. Find out what you're into. (21:44):
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Kevin Tejada: Find out how well they align with your actual goals. Then make some swaps, (21:47):
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Kevin Tejada: some cuts, some changes here and there over time your meal plan will be pretty (21:51):
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Kevin Tejada: good it'll just be called your fucking diet because you're just eating with (21:57):
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Kevin Tejada: common sense for what you want very badass, (22:01):
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Kevin Tejada: so yeah don't don't be like these these people who eat restrict their eating (22:05):
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Kevin Tejada: and then get a fucking heart attack however the hell that happens don't do that (22:10):
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Kevin Tejada: just be flexible if you're not you're not going to make it. (22:14):
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Kevin Tejada: Leave a comment telling me the silliest meal plan you've ever seen. (22:18):
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Kevin Tejada: For me, the silliest ones are the ones that give you all the measurements possible, (22:22):
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Kevin Tejada: but no calories. It's like, dude, you have all the information right there. (22:25):
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Kevin Tejada: Anyway, see you next time. (22:28):
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Kevin Tejada: Now, the concept of planning your meal is obviously fucking awesome. (00:32):
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Kevin Tejada: But what I'm talking about is those restrictive meal plans. You have this whole (00:37):
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Kevin Tejada: list of things that someone else gave you saying, hey, eat 120 grams of salmon, 100 blah, blah, blah. (00:41):
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Kevin Tejada: Basically, it's a shopping list, a recipe list, all in one. You would think, (00:47):
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Kevin Tejada: oh my God, that's so awesome. I just follow this and I'm good. (00:52):
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Kevin Tejada: But I hope if you take about five seconds, you can see the issue with that. (00:56):
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Kevin Tejada: Let's say you wanted to become a marathon runner. You just talk to a guy who (01:00):
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Kevin Tejada: runs marathons. He'll give you a list of everything he does. (01:06):
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Kevin Tejada: And you're like, oh, I just do this and I'll be good. (01:08):
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Kevin Tejada: Yeah, maybe. But that's not going to be fun. It's not going to be your style. (01:11):
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Kevin Tejada: It's not going to be enjoyable for you as a person necessarily. (01:15):
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Kevin Tejada: This is what worked for that person. And yes, it might work for most people, (01:19):
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Kevin Tejada: but most people do not behave the same way or eat the same. (01:23):
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Kevin Tejada: As you can guess here, meal plans as an idea, I think are fine, (01:27):
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Kevin Tejada: but the way that they are in terms of how restrictive they are, (01:33):
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Kevin Tejada: I am not a fan of. I think that will mess you up more than help you. (01:37):
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Kevin Tejada: Now, if you go to my website, sign up for my newsletter, there's (01:40):
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Kevin Tejada: a free meal prep guide there and I (01:44):
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Kevin Tejada: call it meal prep guide not meal plan because gives (01:47):
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Kevin Tejada: you a bunch of stuff and you can kind of mix and match as you want it's more (01:50):
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Kevin Tejada: like a flexible meal suggestion sheet I personally think this is much better (01:55):
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Kevin Tejada: and I'm biased of course but if you give someone a a definitive meal they must match. (02:00):
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Kevin Tejada: It might be tough. Hey, I couldn't get fish today. Hey, I had 90 grams of oatmeal (02:10):
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Kevin Tejada: instead of the 112 that was set on the guide or the plan. (02:15):
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Kevin Tejada: If things are perfect down to the number, it can be easy to kind of fall off, (02:21):
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Kevin Tejada: especially when it's something as scientific as cooking. (02:26):
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Kevin Tejada: And some people say cooking is an art, but that's only partly true. (02:30):
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Kevin Tejada: It's mostly a science. It's literally chemistry. (02:34):
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Kevin Tejada: What I'm saying is if you need, if you're saying, oh, you need to these exact (02:37):
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Kevin Tejada: ingredients for this exact thing, that's just, it's not going to happen for most people. (02:40):
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Kevin Tejada: It is way too rigid. And yes, some meal plans, they have options and blah, (02:44):
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Kevin Tejada: blah, blah. Those can be much better. (02:49):
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Speaker1: Of course. But if you give (02:51):
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Kevin Tejada: Someone a list of saying, hey, you want to lose weight, gain weight, (02:53):
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Kevin Tejada: muscle, whatever, follow this exact thing, buy these exact foods, (02:56):
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Kevin Tejada: cooking this exact way with these exact portions (03:00):
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Kevin Tejada: that's fucked up now i'll (03:04):
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Kevin Tejada: admit for some people they eat like complete dog (03:07):
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Kevin Tejada: shit and if they can follow the instructions this can be a humongous help for (03:10):
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Kevin Tejada: them but most people are not like that they're used to eating however they eat (03:14):
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Kevin Tejada: and they see this list and they're like oh this is homework are you kidding (03:18):
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Kevin Tejada: me and they're just not going to follow it perfectly anyway so what's the point (03:22):
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Kevin Tejada: of that granular detail if it's not going to be follow. (03:26):
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Kevin Tejada: That defeats the purpose of the plan, depending how rigid it is. (03:29):
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Speaker1: To me, hopping on a meal plan (03:33):
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Kevin Tejada: Is almost the exact, it is the exact same thing as hopping on a diet, usually a fad diet. (03:36):
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Kevin Tejada: And by that, I mean, you're taking a person who has this life, (03:41):
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Kevin Tejada: who has this preference, who has this background with food. (03:45):
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Speaker1: Whatever it is. (03:49):
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Kevin Tejada: You're saying, hey, fuck all that. Look at this list of stuff that I say is (03:50):
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Kevin Tejada: good, even though you can accomplish a lot of good stuff in terms of health (03:54):
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Kevin Tejada: and weight loss with a bunch of different options. (03:58):
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Kevin Tejada: Here's what you need to do. And they look at it and they're like, (04:00):
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Kevin Tejada: I don't fucking like pork chops. I guess I'm fucked. (04:03):
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Kevin Tejada: If a person who has a perfectionist problem gets a meal plan, (04:08):
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Kevin Tejada: they're either going to follow it to the T and it could be cool or they're going (04:12):
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Kevin Tejada: to be like, I can't do this part. (04:17):
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Kevin Tejada: So, you know what? I'm just not going to follow it, which is fine. (04:18):
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Kevin Tejada: They can adjust as they want, but it's not going to follow the plan. (04:21):
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Kevin Tejada: It's not going to get the results that they wanted because you're not following the exact plan. (04:24):
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Kevin Tejada: By the way, have you ever looked at most meal plans? It's all basically the same shit. (04:27):
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Kevin Tejada: I mean, that is to say a lot of the stuff on meal plans is what's good for most (04:32):
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Kevin Tejada: people, but it's kind of all the same shit. (04:37):
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Kevin Tejada: Oh, here, I have a chicken breast, have a cup of broccoli, have some oatmeal (04:38):
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Kevin Tejada: in the morning with a little bit of granola and honey. (04:43):
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Kevin Tejada: And later in the day, have some whole wheat bread with organic peanut butter, (04:46):
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Kevin Tejada: a side of salmon. Like, it's the same shit every time. (04:51):
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Kevin Tejada: Except they attach numbers to them and get the way all that shit out which is (04:55):
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Kevin Tejada: annoying for a person who is just hopping on a meal plan now i personally think (04:59):
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Kevin Tejada: weighing stuff out is fucking great tracking food is fucking awesome that's (05:03):
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Kevin Tejada: how you prepare yourself to actually accomplish your goal you keep track of things, (05:07):
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Kevin Tejada: But in my opinion. (05:13):
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Speaker1: Hopping on a meal (05:15):
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Kevin Tejada: Plan is way tougher than just starting to track your calories to begin with. (05:15):
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Kevin Tejada: Because think about it. If you're asking someone who's a complete newbie to, (05:21):
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Kevin Tejada: let's say, weight loss or caring about their food to track their calories, (05:24):
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Kevin Tejada: they think, OK, I'm just going to keep eating what I'm eating. (05:28):
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Kevin Tejada: And then I just scan this thing, measure this thing, and then I keep a log of (05:31):
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Kevin Tejada: this and then I can see what's going on. (05:35):
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Speaker1: Cool. (05:38):
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Kevin Tejada: And then they can make adjustments based on that because they're like, (05:38):
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Kevin Tejada: oh, my God, the way I eat, I'm going to gain two pounds per month. (05:41):
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Kevin Tejada: That's, oh, you know, maybe I can change this. This is a big number here. (05:45):
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Kevin Tejada: And I don't, you know, this, I know this isn't very healthy. (05:49):
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Kevin Tejada: I can probably reduce this or swap it with something else. (05:51):
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Kevin Tejada: You know, it basically lets people learn what about their diet or what their (05:54):
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Kevin Tejada: current eating patterns is doing for them in terms of their goal, (05:59):
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Kevin Tejada: whether it's pushing them towards their goal or pushing them away. (06:04):
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Speaker1: But if you hop (06:07):
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Kevin Tejada: On a meal plan first of all i notice (06:08):
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Kevin Tejada: with a lot of meal plans i know some do but a lot of them don't even include (06:11):
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Kevin Tejada: the calorie amount on there which is fucking crazy if you're gonna measure shit (06:14):
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Kevin Tejada: out and you don't even include the calories like what the fuck is i know i know (06:17):
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Kevin Tejada: a bunch do but most don't i've seen a bunch and i'm surprised they don't mention (06:21):
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Kevin Tejada: the calories at all just meal stuff which i guess the intention is to not overwhelm (06:26):
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Kevin Tejada: a person but you're telling them exactly what to buy, what to cook, what to eat, (06:31):
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Kevin Tejada: when to eat it. So you're long past that point. (06:34):
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Kevin Tejada: Anyway, with the calorie stuff, the person doesn't really have to change what (06:37):
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Kevin Tejada: they're doing or change what they're eating right away. (06:41):
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Kevin Tejada: Just they kind of observe what's going on and they can make. (06:44):
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Speaker1: Changes from there, right? Now with the meal plan stuff, (06:47):
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Kevin Tejada: They're changing everything and tracking their food. (06:50):
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Speaker1: God forbid you (06:54):
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Kevin Tejada: Tell them to track their fucking calories while they're on the meal plan too. (06:55):
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Kevin Tejada: That's going to overwhelm the hell out of them. (06:58):
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Kevin Tejada: It would be ideal probably if for some reason you understand this exact person's (06:59):
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Kevin Tejada: preferences needs and goals and all that there are probably some nutritionists (07:03):
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Kevin Tejada: listening right now saying yeah that's what the point is yes. (07:09):
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Speaker1: Fair enough. (07:13):
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Kevin Tejada: If you've spoken to this person, you understand what they like, (07:14):
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Kevin Tejada: understand what they need, understand their habits or patterns, whatever. (07:18):
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Kevin Tejada: You know them food-wise. (07:21):
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Kevin Tejada: Yeah, you could probably come up with a decent meal plan for them. (07:24):
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Kevin Tejada: I still prefer just kind of having meal suggestions instead because I believe (07:27):
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Kevin Tejada: flexibility is incredibly important when you're making life changes. (07:33):
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Kevin Tejada: And I consider food a life change because you eat multiple times a day if you (07:38):
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Kevin Tejada: change that you're making a huge change to your life, (07:43):
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Kevin Tejada: for me i have kind of a a building blocks mindset when it comes to my eating and. (07:46):
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Speaker1: Like i said on (07:54):
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Kevin Tejada: My website you know check in the link in the description you can go there sign (07:55):
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Kevin Tejada: up and then you'll get a meal prep guide along with other stuff i name it in (07:58):
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Kevin Tejada: there like the building blocks type thing where it's like this is like the this (08:02):
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Kevin Tejada: is this is a food group that's pretty good high protein, whatever. (08:05):
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Kevin Tejada: This is this, this is this, is this swap them in, whatever, whatever you want to do. (08:09):
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Kevin Tejada: Now that one is obviously more specific because I'm not just, (08:13):
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Kevin Tejada: I'm not just going to say, Hey, eat, eat, eat a bunch of protein here. (08:16):
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Kevin Tejada: This is a block, put this next to a bunch of vegetable like that. (08:20):
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Kevin Tejada: That's completely useless. (08:23):
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Kevin Tejada: So it's a bit more specific, but what I just said is kind of how I do it. (08:25):
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Kevin Tejada: I think, okay, I got to get a bunch of protein in that can either be, (08:29):
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Kevin Tejada: you know, a bunch of chicken, the fish or protein shake or something, get that in. (08:32):
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Kevin Tejada: Now you're going to get some fats in. That's going to be through some nuts, (08:37):
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Kevin Tejada: olive oil, ghee, something like that. (08:42):
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Kevin Tejada: Carbohydrates are very plentiful. Vegetables are carbs and you can just get (08:44):
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Kevin Tejada: that from fucking anywhere. (08:49):
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Kevin Tejada: So the carbs are the stuff I worry about the least because you can, (08:50):
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Kevin Tejada: you can get that in pretty easily, probably without trying. (08:53):
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Kevin Tejada: And again, just to remind you, most foods have a mix of proteins, (08:56):
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Kevin Tejada: fats, and carbohydrates. So don't just separate foods out like that. (09:00):
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Kevin Tejada: That's not what I'm saying. I'm saying foods that are primarily a certain macronutrient, (09:03):
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Kevin Tejada: then, you know, I kind of, (09:08):
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Kevin Tejada: mix and match what I want for that day for that meal. (09:10):
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Kevin Tejada: For example, I'm not going to have a meal that's just all fast or whatever. (09:14):
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Kevin Tejada: Like I'm not going to have a, like a mug of nuts with a side of olive oil. (09:17):
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Speaker1: Like obviously something (09:22):
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Kevin Tejada: Should change there. Unless I actually just thought about this, (09:24):
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Kevin Tejada: this would be an interesting experiment. You had three meals a day. (09:27):
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Kevin Tejada: Each meal is a macronutrient. So one meal is like full on insane amounts of (09:31):
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Kevin Tejada: protein. The other one is just all carbohydrates. The other one's just all fats. (09:36):
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Kevin Tejada: You have it in the correct ratio. I mean, that would work, I guess. (09:39):
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Kevin Tejada: It'd be fucking weird, but that'd be interesting to try out. (09:43):
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Kevin Tejada: Anyway, I wouldn't do that, but it could be a fun, be a fun experiment. (09:46):
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Kevin Tejada: But imagine I did that, right? I'm like, hey, here's my meal plan. (09:51):
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Kevin Tejada: First meal, shit ton of protein. Second meal, bunch of carbohydrates. (09:54):
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Kevin Tejada: Last meal. Here's some fats. That way the proteins help you keep full then the (09:59):
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Kevin Tejada: carbohydrates that get you the energy boost throughout the day and then at the (10:05):
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Kevin Tejada: end you get the fats to help you last till night time, (10:07):
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Kevin Tejada: and usually the exact foods blah blah blah imagine I said that and you're like (10:10):
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Kevin Tejada: fuck I don't want to do that, (10:14):
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Kevin Tejada: I'm not eating a whole ass salmon in the morning what the fuck, (10:16):
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Kevin Tejada: I mean I would but a lot of people they have the whole oh breakfast is for breakfast (10:20):
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Kevin Tejada: foods so and again it's a preference thing so it wouldn't work for everyone (10:24):
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Kevin Tejada: that's why I'm not really a fan of the meal prep stuff I've been going way off (10:28):
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Kevin Tejada: fucking format for this episode I'm just complaining about. (10:31):
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Speaker1: Meal plan and stuff. (10:35):
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Kevin Tejada: But yeah, if you hop on a meal plan, the same thing if you hop on a diet. (10:36):
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Kevin Tejada: At the beginning, if you follow it even halfway, compared to the shit way you (10:39):
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Kevin Tejada: were probably eating before, you're going to see some quick changes. (10:43):
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Kevin Tejada: A lot of those changes, however, will be due to water weight. (10:47):
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Kevin Tejada: You lose maybe a bit of muscle or because of the carbohydrates you're not, (10:51):
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Kevin Tejada: consuming again that comes to the water weight part as well and the hunger aspect (10:55):
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Kevin Tejada: is going to be changed up depending on the ratio of stuff you're eating blah (10:59):
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Kevin Tejada: blah blah and just a reminder if you stop eating like carbohydrates are great (11:03):
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Kevin Tejada: but if you reduce them because of this fucking meal plan shit or a diet yeah (11:07):
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Kevin Tejada: you'll lose a bunch of weight kind of quickly because carbohydrates. (11:11):
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Kevin Tejada: Are responsible for a lot of the water you have in your body so (11:15):
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Kevin Tejada: you cut those out you have less water in your body you (11:19):
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Kevin Tejada: have less water weight less weight you can see (11:22):
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Kevin Tejada: the connection here right but you need carbohydrates to fucking hydrate your (11:25):
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Kevin Tejada: body because it should be like two-thirds 70 percent water so (11:27):
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Kevin Tejada: don't get crazy i'm gonna play (11:30):
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Kevin Tejada: devil's advocate here strict plans are the only way that i can lose weight flexibility (11:33):
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Kevin Tejada: just means excuses this isn't interesting come on because this person sounds (11:40):
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Kevin Tejada: very self-aware they're thinking hey yeah if i don't follow a complete list, (11:46):
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Kevin Tejada: I'm going to go way off track. So yeah, I got to follow a strict plan. (11:51):
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Kevin Tejada: You know what, man, if you're this self-aware, this could actually be helpful for you. (11:54):
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Kevin Tejada: So I'm not even going to go against this, but I will suggest for this person, (11:58):
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Kevin Tejada: please have some more flexibility in your life. (12:02):
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Kevin Tejada: But until you get there, I mean, Hey, you understand what's going on. (12:06):
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Kevin Tejada: So I'm not even going to, I'm. (12:09):
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Speaker1: Not even going (12:11):
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Kevin Tejada: To talk shit about this one. That's a, that's fair for that specific kind of (12:11):
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Kevin Tejada: person. Cutting out food groups is healthy if those foods are bad for you. (12:14):
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Kevin Tejada: Depends what you mean by food group if you can if you can group together like (12:19):
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Kevin Tejada: whatever the fuck pop tarts and oreos are if that's a food group then i would (12:23):
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Kevin Tejada: i would mostly agree with you but in general food groups can't really be bad it's. (12:28):
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Speaker1: More about the (12:34):
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Kevin Tejada: Quality of the food itself personally and i've probably said this before that (12:34):
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Kevin Tejada: there are bad foods shit foods whatever that's for that's you know just to make a statement Amen. (12:39):
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Kevin Tejada: In black and white to just make the point that some foods are not great for you. (12:46):
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Kevin Tejada: But to add some nuance to this, I don't actually think that there are foods (12:49):
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Kevin Tejada: that are bad, just foods that are a bad bang for buck. (12:53):
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Kevin Tejada: For example, Oreos, like I like to bring up, tastes great, but you know, (12:58):
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Kevin Tejada: that little cookie is like 65, 70 calories, doesn't fill you up for shit, makes you want more. (13:02):
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Kevin Tejada: It's completely devoid of nutrition in any way. (13:08):
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Kevin Tejada: So yeah, you get a bit of you get a bit of nice taste right but then (13:13):
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Kevin Tejada: there's just nothing good about at all it's a (13:16):
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Kevin Tejada: bad bang for buck and this can apply to a (13:19):
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Kevin Tejada: lot of other foods too so i don't you know i don't think (13:22):
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Kevin Tejada: food groups are unhealthy necessarily unless you're (13:25):
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Kevin Tejada: able to group it in as like junk food then (13:28):
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Kevin Tejada: maybe but even then those can (13:31):
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Kevin Tejada: serve a purpose if you're starving right like if you if you're literally (13:34):
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Kevin Tejada: coming out of the desert you've been starving and the (13:36):
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Kevin Tejada: only thing you can ease a pack of oreos that's going to be fucking fantastic (13:39):
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Kevin Tejada: for your for your body in that moment because it's going to get a bunch of fucking (13:43):
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Kevin Tejada: energy so it can't be bad it's depending on the situation and what you're trying (13:46):
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Kevin Tejada: to do discipline builds resilience cheat days are a lack of willpower discipline does build resilience. (13:51):
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Speaker1: Cheat days are lack of willpower. (14:00):
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Kevin Tejada: I never really got into the whole cheat day, cheat meal thing. (14:01):
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Kevin Tejada: Because that implies that you're on a very strict diet or whatever. (14:04):
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Kevin Tejada: And then you're just like, eh, I'm going to eat like shit right now. (14:08):
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Kevin Tejada: I just kind of eat what I want to. (14:13):
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Kevin Tejada: But at this point in my life, I eat mostly things that are pretty good for me and go towards my goals. (14:16):
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Kevin Tejada: So if I want to eat, you know, a pastry or whatever, it's not going to be, (14:22):
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Kevin Tejada: oh, it's a cheat meal. It's just this is a thing that I want to eat. (14:27):
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Kevin Tejada: This, this one in particular is not fantastic for, you know, (14:30):
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Kevin Tejada: my, my goal or today's energy, but I'm just going to eat it because it'll be (14:34):
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Kevin Tejada: pretty, it'll be pretty, it'll be fine, you know, for today. That's fine. (14:39):
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Kevin Tejada: I don't really consider that. I mean, people think that's like a cheap meal thing. (14:42):
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Kevin Tejada: I just think it's eating something that's not a hundred percent aligned with (14:46):
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Kevin Tejada: what you want to do, but it's for a different reason. (14:49):
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Kevin Tejada: Maybe it's fun. Maybe it tastes good. I don't know. (14:52):
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Kevin Tejada: Maybe it's the same thing. just semantics here honestly but. (14:55):
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Speaker1: Cheat days are (14:58):
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Kevin Tejada: Weird like what I just said I guess you could say (15:00):
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Kevin Tejada: for me like cheat meals are a fine thing (15:03):
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Kevin Tejada: but cheat days like what does that mean like literally the whole day you're (15:06):
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Kevin Tejada: eating complete dog shit you're eating pizza with chips on it or something I (15:09):
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Kevin Tejada: have no idea what necessarily that is the closest I have is when I go play board (15:13):
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Kevin Tejada: games with my buddies and we eat a shit ton of snacks but there's some good (15:18):
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Kevin Tejada: stuff there you know like a lot of vegetables and other stuff but uh, (15:22):
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Kevin Tejada: yeah maybe the amount of chips that uh exist there would consider it would make (15:26):
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Kevin Tejada: that a whole cheat day but i don't think i don't think in those ways the lack (15:31):
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Kevin Tejada: of willpower i mean if you're, (15:35):
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Kevin Tejada: eating foods that don't 100 align with your goal i mean that's just gonna happen (15:38):
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Kevin Tejada: that's fucking life you unless you eat astronaut food that's specifically made (15:42):
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Kevin Tejada: for your stuff all the time it's just gonna happen whether you like it or not (15:46):
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Kevin Tejada: but if you choose to do to eat something that's not completely aligned, (15:51):
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Kevin Tejada: I think it should be because you chose to do it. (15:55):
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Kevin Tejada: If a lack of willpower is an issue, and I would recommend keeping different (15:58):
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Kevin Tejada: food in your home, to be honest. (16:02):
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Kevin Tejada: Quick results keep you motivated. Moderation always fails for me. (16:04):
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Kevin Tejada: Well, this person's fucking stupid. (16:08):
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Kevin Tejada: What do you mean quick results always keep you motivated? (16:10):
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Kevin Tejada: What the fuck does that mean? You constantly swap methods so that you're constantly (16:14):
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Kevin Tejada: changing and making results. You hop from fad diet to fad diet or something. (16:20):
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Kevin Tejada: I don't know what the fuck. I don't know who exists in this way. (16:24):
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Kevin Tejada: Moderation always fails for me. It sounds like an addict or something. (16:27):
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Kevin Tejada: That's a different problem than quick results. (16:29):
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Kevin Tejada: Anyway, this person is stupid. Let me give you some numbers. (16:33):
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Speaker1: As of 2018, (16:37):
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Kevin Tejada: About 17% of Americans were on a special diet. (16:39):
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Kevin Tejada: And rates were higher amongst women (16:43):
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Kevin Tejada: and as people got older that rate (16:46):
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Kevin Tejada: also increased again because women are targeted often and (16:50):
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Kevin Tejada: increase with age i guess people are getting more desperate with (16:54):
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Kevin Tejada: age or they're being told hey you're old you can't do shit now you (16:56):
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Kevin Tejada: must follow this exact plan oh this was interesting in one study up to 85 of (16:59):
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Kevin Tejada: women with restrictive eating like these kinds of meal plans developed osteopenia (17:06):
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Kevin Tejada: or osteoporosis which are bone loss and fracture risk so basically your bones (17:11):
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Kevin Tejada: become weak and brittle probably. (17:17):
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Speaker1: Because in those (17:19):
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Kevin Tejada: Meal plans they were restricting things that would help with bone growth this (17:20):
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Kevin Tejada: that is super interesting to me adults who followed an eight-hour eating window (17:25):
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Kevin Tejada: time-restricted eating had a 91 higher 91 percent higher risk of cardiovascular (17:29):
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Kevin Tejada: death compared to typical 12 to six hour eaters, (17:35):
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Kevin Tejada: according to a recent American Heart Association analysis of 20,000 people. (17:39):
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Kevin Tejada: So this is implying that intermittent fasting is not good. (17:43):
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Kevin Tejada: Now, I was just going to make a guess, but I decided to look into this article (17:47):
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Kevin Tejada: more because it's crazy. (17:52):
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Kevin Tejada: And it turns out that my guess was kind of right. But. (17:54):
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Speaker1: Basically, a lot (17:58):
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Kevin Tejada: Of the reasons for this was for things outside of just literally the time eating, (17:59):
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Kevin Tejada: like whether they ate in eight hours or 16 hours, it was for other kind of reasons (18:04):
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Kevin Tejada: outside of the actual food timing. (18:10):
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Kevin Tejada: For example, some people were squeezing their food in so they didn't get enough nutrients. (18:13):
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Kevin Tejada: Some people who were partaking in something like this are already kind of stressed (18:18):
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Kevin Tejada: to begin with or open to stressing themselves out more. (18:21):
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Kevin Tejada: And just the physical stress of rapidly, rapidly and taking calories in a short (18:26):
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Kevin Tejada: burst could stress the cardiovascular system, whatever. (18:30):
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Kevin Tejada: Basically, the people who died from this are fucked up and have other problems (18:33):
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Kevin Tejada: because the actual time that you're eating is not great. But this kind of relates to what I was saying. (18:39):
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Kevin Tejada: If you are going about it in this way, in a restrictive way, (18:45):
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Kevin Tejada: there are going to be other issues associated with it that are not necessarily tied to the food. (18:48):
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Kevin Tejada: Because if you follow the food plan exactly as it is, and you're a robot, (18:52):
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Kevin Tejada: It can work out pretty fine, but we're humans and things need to change and (18:55):
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Kevin Tejada: adjust and all this kind of stuff, (19:00):
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Kevin Tejada: which means following a set directive can have negative side effects because (19:01):
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Kevin Tejada: we're not necessarily built to follow programming in that way. (19:06):
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Kevin Tejada: Time-instricted eating is totally fine, by the way, if you're not stupid. (19:10):
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Kevin Tejada: I remember when I was in college, when I was losing my hundred pounds, (19:13):
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Kevin Tejada: I think I was in my second half of this, like the last 50 pounds. (19:18):
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Kevin Tejada: I believe I was eating between Like 1pm And 4pm So about a 3 Sometimes a 4 hour (19:21):
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Kevin Tejada: eating window I would basically wake up late Because I was a fucking college student. (19:30):
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Kevin Tejada: Head to the gym, exercise, go back home. It would be, you know, (19:35):
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Kevin Tejada: noon or 1 p.m. Then I would basically eat for three hours. (19:39):
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Kevin Tejada: And then I'd be done. What I mean is not, I wouldn't be eating for the straight (19:44):
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Kevin Tejada: three hours, but just like in that period, I'd be like, oh yeah, (19:47):
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Kevin Tejada: I want some more. I want some more food. I'm getting this, blah, blah, blah. (19:49):
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Speaker1: And then after that, (19:53):
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Kevin Tejada: I'd be like, well, I'm done. And it was fun. Anyway, that's that. (19:53):
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Kevin Tejada: Pulled me on a tangent here. (19:58):
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Kevin Tejada: Yeah, blah, this, yeah, it's fucking, it's fad diet shit. It's the same thing. (20:00):
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Kevin Tejada: Meal plans. It's just, I guess not a fad, it's just some diet that you get on. (20:04):
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Kevin Tejada: From someone else though, someone else's opinion, someone else's preferences, (20:08):
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Kevin Tejada: blah, blah, blah. Even if it's science backed, doesn't matter if you don't follow it. (20:11):
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Kevin Tejada: We know all the science for fucking weight loss and fitness, (20:15):
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Kevin Tejada: but everyone's fat and weak. So the science doesn't matter. It's about what (20:17):
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Kevin Tejada: actually works with your life. (20:21):
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Kevin Tejada: That's the thing most people don't understand. We have all fucking knowledge (20:23):
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Kevin Tejada: in the world in our pockets. (20:27):
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Kevin Tejada: You can ask AI, make me a meal plan. I want to do this, make me a meal plan. (20:28):
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Kevin Tejada: Are you going to follow it? Probably the fuck not. (20:32):
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Speaker1: Let's be real. (20:34):
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Kevin Tejada: What would be way better is for you to understand what it means to actually (20:35):
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Kevin Tejada: lose weight, gain weight, whatever you're trying to do. (20:39):
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Kevin Tejada: Make some observations about what you already do and then make changes here (20:42):
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Kevin Tejada: and there to make it more likely that you will actually head towards your goal. (20:46):
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Kevin Tejada: So just fuck the meal plan shit. Definitely check out my meal prep guide though. (20:53):
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Kevin Tejada: I love mixing and matching. For me, I'm a person who, if you give me all the (20:58):
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Kevin Tejada: freedom in the world, I'm just going to not do anything. That's why I never (21:03):
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Kevin Tejada: got into Minecraft or whatever. (21:06):
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Kevin Tejada: Because it's like, hey, you can do anything. I'm like, okay, (21:07):
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Kevin Tejada: I'm going to build a hill, I guess. I don't know. (21:10):
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Kevin Tejada: Give me full creative control. I don't know what the fuck to do. (21:14):
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Kevin Tejada: You give me an exact list, like a script. (21:16):
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Kevin Tejada: I'm like, well, I'm not a fan of this specific part. I wish I could change it, (21:18):
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Kevin Tejada: but this sucks. I'm not a fan of that either. (21:22):
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Speaker1: But if you give me guidelines, (21:26):
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Kevin Tejada: Guide rails, suggestions, I'd be like, okay, yeah, I want to do this, (21:29):
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Kevin Tejada: this, this, and then this will work a bit better. Okay, yeah, I got it. Here it goes. (21:32):
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Kevin Tejada: That's me personally. That's what I find to work best for most people. (21:35):
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Kevin Tejada: So what I suggest is you make your own meal plan. And by that, (21:40):
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Kevin Tejada: I mean your own meal suggestions. Find out what you're into. (21:44):
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Kevin Tejada: Find out how well they align with your actual goals. Then make some swaps, (21:47):
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Kevin Tejada: some cuts, some changes here and there over time your meal plan will be pretty (21:51):
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Kevin Tejada: good it'll just be called your fucking diet because you're just eating with (21:57):
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Kevin Tejada: common sense for what you want very badass, (22:01):
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Kevin Tejada: so yeah don't don't be like these these people who eat restrict their eating (22:05):
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Kevin Tejada: and then get a fucking heart attack however the hell that happens don't do that (22:10):
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Kevin Tejada: just be flexible if you're not you're not going to make it. (22:14):
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Kevin Tejada: Leave a comment telling me the silliest meal plan you've ever seen. (22:18):
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Kevin Tejada: For me, the silliest ones are the ones that give you all the measurements possible, (22:22):
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Kevin Tejada: but no calories. It's like, dude, you have all the information right there. (22:25):
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Kevin Tejada: Anyway, see you next time. (22:28):
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