What's up, guys?
Jeff Cavaliere, ATHLEANX.COM.
Today I'm going to talk to you about how diet soda makes you fat.
How red meat is bad for you.
How dietary fat makes you fat.
How Splenda will absolutely kill you.
How you shouldn't eat carbs after 6 P.M.
How you shouldn't eat carbs.
How you shouldn't eat at least for more than 6 hours a day.
What's up, guys?
Jeff Cavaliere, ATHLEANX.COM.
Today, what I really want to talk to you about is this word right behind me, ENOUGH.
And when I mean Enough, I mean
Enough Already with these extreme diet recommendations, this demonizing of certain things that we
do in our diet,
things that are terrible, things that are going to kill us, things that are going to
make us fat, things that are going to make us too skinny.
Guys, ENOUGH.
I get requests on here each and every week.
Jeff, I want to know the secrets.
What is it that you do 365 days of the year to stay lean and ripped?
And What Is It?
I want to know the shortcuts.
Give me the shortcuts.
Alright, guys, do you know what I feel about that?
Bullshit!
There are no shortcuts especially when it comes to nutrition, and this is going to turn
into a little bit of a Jeff Rant.
But I think that that's the thing we need here when it comes to nutrition because some
people still want to find that secret.
They still want to find and believe in shortcuts where they don't exist.
When it comes to nutrition, guys, we want to have a healthy respect for the foods we
eat and realize their power and their potential to transform our bodies.
When we talk about the effect of nutrition being 70 percent of what we look like, it's
not just some arbitrary number that we throw.
Sure, people will attach different values, 70 percent, 80 percent, 60 percent, 90 percent,
but it's important, right?
We know it's important.
If it's that important, then why aren't we treating it as importantly as it should be?
Instead, we want to latch on to these fads and creations.
Like I said, diet soda is going to make you fat.
I'm not a big supporter of diet soda, but come on, guys, I mean, seriously.
The diet soda is the main problem?
That's what keeping you from your 6-Pack?
Is it that, or is it the fact that you have diet soda and rum?
Right?
A rum and diet coke.
Is it because you have your diet soda, but you're eating your nachos and chicken wings
at the same time?
You know, we start to attach ourselves so much to these concepts that we lose sight
of what the big mistakes are that we're making.
Red meat is bad for you.
Why?
Why is red meat bad for you?
Why?
Now, they look and they do all these studies, but then they'll do studies that will conflict
that.
We develop as humans eating red meat.
From the caveman times until now.
Now, is it red meat every night?
No.
That brings us to the case of moderation.
Everything in moderation, guys.
That's what your parents told you growing up.
Moderation is key.
See, what happens is, there is never really a black and white.
I think black and white never explains what it is we're looking for when it comes to nutrition.
Because the answer usually lies in the grey, and the answer usually lies in a much more
complex interaction amongst all the things we're doing.
Red meat alone could be bad.
Red meat supported by an adequate intake of healthy fibers, vegetables every day
could have a far different effect on the overall outcome of what that does to you, right, it
has a protective effect.
You can't just look at it that way.
I've talked about nutrigenomics before.
That concept is extremely powerful, very new, something that we're sort of dipping into
now
that's going to hold a lot more of the answers as we dig into this in the next few years.
And it has a lot more about how we're combining things, and the power of individual nutrients,
and what they can do to our bodies.
So, to sit there and say Splenda will kill you.
Guys, you know, quickly on Splenda, they've done studies on that.
Splenda is made up of a filler-material, and then sucralose.
Sucralose is the ingredient that is supposed to kill you.
Ok, that's the chlorine derivative.
But they've done effective studies that show that up to 500 mg per kg of bodyweight is
still safe.
Then they do it, and they'll say, well, let's cut it down a hundred times and see what that
does to us.
A hundred times is only 5 mg per kg of bodyweight.
So, what does that mean?
That means you could be eating, when you do all the math, about 30-60 packets, full packets,
of Splenda everyday and
still be 1/100th of the way to the safe dose that they've shown.
Now, I'm not supporting Splenda.
I don't care about Splenda.
We put Stevia in our ATHLEANX products.
I'd rather have the natural sweetener in our products.
But, to sit here and say that Splenda is going to kill you because you eat a pack of it.
And for guys to sit here, my videographers, to make fun of me when I throw one pack of
Splenda into a latte at Starbucks.
When we go out to dinner, they're eating French Fries.
So, we all have our things.
And that's not what's preventing you from getting your 6-Pack, is that one pack of Splenda.
Hell, they show that the oxalic acid in spinach can kill you.
If you ate 10-20 pounds of spinach in one sitting, which nobody in their right mind
would.
But if they did, it could kill you.
It could shut your kidneys down.
So, everything, guys, in moderation.
The carb guys.
Don't eat carbs.
Carbs are bad.
Carbs make you fat.
Fat makes you fat.
Carbs after 6 make you fat.
Guys, I eat carbs every single day.
Complex carbohydrates, every single day, most often because of the work I do.
I don't eat dinner until 9 o'clock at night.
I eat carbs at night every single night.
I look the same way here 365 days a year because I have a respect for nutrition.
I don't look at it as an extreme.
I don't look at it as, Oh, you can't eat this.
You have to exclude that, and you have to...
Guys, you have a respect for nutrition and treat it like a drug that it is, because nutrition
is extremely powerful.
What you put in your body really does have an effect on how you are.
You are what you eat, is a true statement.
So, why is it that we are always looking for the one thing, the one reason to say Oh, if
I could just get that,
that shortcut, then I'm going to have the key to being lean and ripped 100 percent of
the time.
The thing is that we want to find something to demonize because it makes it easier for
us to say,
I can't do that.
I can't do that all the time.
I'm not expected to be able to do that all the time.
That's for only the guys like really you know, the extreme guys.
Like Jeff is just an extreme case.
No.
I'm not.
I'm not an extreme case, guys.
I'm really not.
I just have a determination that I want to make sure I look a certain way.
I have to stand in front of you guys and be believable 365 days of the year.
Some other guys on youTube make come in and look fat.
Half the year, they're credible half the time.
I have to be credible to you in my head 100 percent of the time.
I need to practice what I preach 100 percent of the time because I feel like that's the
only way that I deserve your trust.
Guys, I'm off on my little Jeff Rant, as I said, but it's key.
I think it's key that you guys understand that when you want these videos on nutrition,
I'm not sure what to bring you because if I come and I give you all those juicy topics
that you've probably heard and you might even be subscribing to,
I would just be bullshitting you and I would be bullshitting myself, and that's not the
way it rolls.
The way it rolls is, once you start to determine 'I want to look a certain way, and I know
that I gotta up my game, and
I have to determine that there's a certain amount of sacrifice that I have to make to
look that way', you will unlock that key.
And you will look better than ever, and here's the best part about that.
You don't have to go through pain to get there.
It's not painful.
If it was painful, I couldn't do this, guys, every day of the year.
What I eat, I love.
The things I eat are healthy.
There are so many great-tasting options within that healthy food category that you can live
on forever.
And I don't care what kind of food eater you are right now.
I grew up as the biggest junk food junkie around.
I've converted to a guy that doesn't need that much of it at all any more.
Did I completely change my whole palette?
No.
I just started to realize that as I made better and better choices, my physique got better
and better, and I felt better and better.
And I was able to perform better and better.
The same exact thing can happen to you, and you don't have to make these incredible sacrifices
to realize that
Oh my God, I'm going to start eating nothing but boiled chicken from now on.
Guys, this is what the X-Factor Meal Plan is all about.
It's literally peeking into exactly what I do every single day.
It gives you a sustainable option.
Sustainable.
Something that you can do forever.
Not this 6 hour window that you can only do for however long until it drives you mad or
insane.
Or not the guys who restricts his carbohydrates and removes them from his diet, or
the guy who goes completely low-fat and gets rid of those from his diet.
I'm talking about sustainable, reproducible, enjoyable.
That's what the X-Factor Meal Plan is all about.
That's what ATHLEANX is all about.
So, here's the secret.
If you want the shortcut, guys, start having respect for food.
Start trying to stabilize your blood sugar by eating frequently throughout the day.
And when I mean frequently, at specific times throughout the day.
I don't care what that interval is, but try to make sure that you're not allowing your
blood sugar levels to crash.
So, you're looking for things that you wouldn't normally eat, or you're craving things that
you shouldn't be eating.
Increase your fibrous vegetable intake.
They are some of the best things you can be putting in your body.
Again, for many reasons that we don't even know yet based on nutrigenomics.
Increase your protein intake.
Guys don't eat enough protein.
They really don't.
If that has to come from supplementation, fine.
Do it.
You don't have to use ATHLEAN-RX if you don't want to.
Do it from a reputable brand, one that you trust.
But remember, I've already covered that issue.
You should be doubting a lot of the supplements that are out there for all the wrong reasons.
If you trust in ATHLEAN-RX, then use the ATHLEAN-RX Supplements, but try to increase the intake
of your protein, and
doing it through supplementation might be the best way to do it.
And start, again, having some responsibility about the other things you're doing.
Do think drinking is going to get you a 6-Pack?
Most likely, no.
It's just going to get you a 6-pack of beer.
Do you think that eating pasta in portions this big is going to be the perfect idea for
you?
Probably not.
It's not really a reasonable portion size.
So, start thinking about more of the basics, guys, when it comes to nutrition.
And if you want a step-by-step plan for it, I got it all laid out for you.
I give you exactly what I do.
I give you exactly how I eat, but if you don't want to go down that road, then
at least stop looking for the shortcut and the secret, because it's not out there.
Alright guys, thanks for letting me get that off my chest.
As you know, like I said, every week, ATHLEANX, guys.
This is a training system, so beyond the workouts, beyond the nutrition, the workouts, too.
Sustainable.
Doable. 20-40 Minutes.
High Intensity, as high as it gets, but doable because you don't have to sit there and commit
to 90 minutes, 2 hours of training every day.
Most guys quit that.
We get you going, get you working hard, get you keeping that short and keeping on meal
plan that
gets you ripped and allows you to build muscle at the same time and does it in a sensible,
sustainable way.
That's all over my ATHLEANX Training System, and that's all over at ATHLEANX.COM.
Alright, guys, I'll be back here next week.
Remember, some of the shorter videos, this one allows me to get off on a tangent here,
but I think,
sometimes you guys appreciate it when it comes right from the heart to you guys, and this
is exactly how I feel about this stuff.
ENOUGH, ENOUGH, ENOUGH.
OK?
Guys, I'll be back here soon.
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