Person A: (How the average woman views healthy eating)

Breakfast - Oatmeal & coffee (no sugar just cream)

Snack- peanut butter crackers

Lunch- Sweet potato w/ Broccoli

Dinner- Salad with egg, cheese and chicken

Calories: 730 Carbs: 100 Protein: 30 grams Fat: 20

Macro Nutrient breakdown: Carb: 60% Protein: 18% Fat: 12%

** Most people would consider this healthy

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Person B: (This is closer to how you should be eating)

Breakfast- 3 cage free boiled eggs, 15 grapes (6:30 am)

Snack- High quality grass fed protein shake w/ only water (9:30am)

Lunch- Sliced tomato and 4 ounces grass fed grilled chicken or chicken wings (12:45 pm)

Snack- Half of a grass fed protein drink (only almond milk) (4:15 pm)

Dinner- Wild caught Fried Fish, 17 pieces of fried okra (7:30pm)

Near bedtime snack- Wine 🍷 (Yup..wine)

Calories: 1100 , Carbs: 45, Protein: 90 grams and Fat: 40

Macronutrient breakdown: Carb: 20% Protein: 40% Fat: 40%

Analysis A: When you eat like person A sure you will lose weight in the beginning because the calories are lower. This is a recipe for adaptive thermogenesis... Also... look at the numbers. 60% of your total calories consumed, come from carbs. This is not a winning formula, especially when you want to tone up.

Analysis B: Notice woman B eats slightly more. BUT... the source of her calories are different. See, your body uses different nutrients differently. Your body uses protein for its job and it uses carbs for its job.

If you are eating low calorie but most of those calories, or even half of those calories are from carbs the body cannot use all of those carbs. They will be stored as fat. And the lower your calories the more fat you will store over time. Excess carbs turn into fat.

- Adam Burton