If you do any recreational reading of nutrition info and nutrition marketing you’ve likely read a lot of ‘what if’ stories.
‘What if’ stories are things like:
What happens if I eat all my daily calories from carbs
or
What happens if I don’t eat enough protein today
or
What happens if I don’t eat a balanced macronutrient diet and control my insulin levels
or
What happens to my metabolism if I don’t eat enough meals per day
This is typical of nutrition/diet marketing. But none of it deals with what IS happening right now. If you took an inventory of your current state including what you’re eating and how it is currently affecting your insulin levels, your metabolism, your energy and muscle building you’d likely find that whatever you’re currently doing is already enough and doesn’t need to be changed.
Without establishing a baseline of where you currently are you’ll never know if you need to change anything and in what direction you need to make that change.
Worrying about ‘what if’ scenarios without knowing ‘what is’ happening will just cause you stress and worry that you don’t need.
John
