The great advantage that the flexible dieting concept brought to the world was science supporting nutrition. So let us explain the concept of our diet and training through these 18 facts that are scientifically proven!

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1) There is no food that increases our metabolic rate.

2) Don’t create food restrictions.

3) Don’t label food as “clean/dirty” or “healthy/unhealthy” because there is no scientific evidence that proves that some type of food isn’t healthy.

4) Don’t force yourself to eat 6 or 7 daily meals, eat the amount of times that is adequate to your lifestyle.

5) Don’t focus on meal timing (eating meals at the “right” times, for example: pre-workout, post-workout, etc…) as it being a decisive factor in you making your body composition better or even your health. Meal timing should be a personal preference.

6) Don’t force yourself to eat 30g of protein at every meal, or force yourself to split the macro nutrients throughout your day, just because of the myth that says that the human metabolism can’t metabolize/absorb/use nutrients if the whole of the daily dose of nutrients is ingested in only two meals.

7) Don’t force pre/post-workout meals and don’t take notice of the anabolic window myth (30/60 min).

8) Don’t restrict sodium consumption without a proven health reason.

9) Fast cardio isn’t better than slow cardio, or vice versa, for fat loss. The only factor that actually matters for fat loss is being in a deficit of thermodynamic energy. This creates an energetic deficit. Still, you can resource to caloric restriction to create the same energetic deficit.

10) Do very little cardio when in a thermodynamic energy deficit and only when it’s appropriate, because normally it’s more indicated to cut/reduce “calories” from food. But in case you have “psychological hunger”, that’s when you should introduce a small amount of cardio, because it is a weapon that should be used to increase caloric expenditure. In an initial phase it is unnecessary, seen as we still have many calories to dispose of through food cuts.

11) Don’t use fat burners or any supplement that increases your heart rate just because you think it’ll increase your energy expenditure.

12) We use no “trendy” diets like “zero carbs, 0 fats, high protein”.

13) It isn’t necessary for you to consume protein from a biological/animal source. It doesn’t matter if it’s 20g of milk/meat/fish/etc (good quality proteins) protein vs 20g of protein coming from carbohydrates (bread/pasta/rice/etc) or even from fats low in amino acids (low quality protein). This is because the importance of amino acids is relative when against a daily/weekly consumption of any type/source of protein supported by a sufficient consumption of thermodynamic energy. Protein quality would only be relevant of we were presented in an excessive weekly deficit of thermodynamic energy.

14) We don’t practice carbs that cycle carbohydrates because it doesn’t present a significant benefit when opposed to a flexible diet with appropriate nutrient dosages.

15) We use adequate macro and micronutrient doses custom to X or Y goals.

16) Thermodynamic energy “in” vs. Thermodynamic energy “out”.

17) Thermodynamic energy deficits that are adequate/correct for fat loss when your goal is to lose the least amount of muscle possible during the process.

18) Thermodynamic energy excess adequate/correct for muscle gain when the goal is to accumulate the least fat possible during the process.

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If our diet doesn’t give us a chance to eat our favorite meals every once in a while, then it’s time to try a different approach so that we can have a diet that doesn’t damage our lifestyle and that can provide us with the results we want.

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