Flexible Dieting Part 1 - Lose Weight Eating Chocolate Everyday

Flexible Dieting/IIFYM (If it fits your macros) - what's this? Welcome my friends, to the best ‘diet’ you’ll ever come across. Why? Because it’s not a diet silly! It’s a lifestyle that’s realistic and sustainable and you cannot fail – sound good? If you want to say ‘See ya’ to rabbit food and ‘how you doin’ to burger and chips, whilst being oh so god dam sexy, then this is the post you’ve been waiting for!

Flexible dieting is a way of eating that involves looking at the nutritional content of food to meet our personal daily nutritional requirements. Now here’s the best part, there are NO good or bad foods so say goodbye to the idea of clean and dirty eating because there are actually no foods out there that will make you learner or cause weight gain. Whatever we feed our bodies gets broken down and used accordingly.

Your body will use the protein for muscle growth & repair, Carbs for energy and dietary fat for a number of bodily processes. Each of these food groups are ESSENTIAL! You cannot cut out any of them and expect to be healthy, so forget the idea that Carbs are the devil - this is total bollocks.  These essential food groups are called macronutrients and you can find out here how much of each you need to be eating daily for your fitness goals.

Most foods have more than one macronutrient and there are some foods that are more nutrient dense than others (which you guys typically perceive to be healthy or ‘clean’). However, from a body composition perspective, the body will absorb the protein from a chicken breast in the same way as it will absorb the protein from a cheeseburger. BUT, it is important to consider that if you go for the cheese burger, chances are that you’ll also be consuming added fats & carbs too – which is fine, as long as you’re accounting for them. See where I’m going with this?

It’s pretty simple really, as long as you track your macros and you can fit your meals into your daily requirements you can be flexible with what you eat.

Nonsense I hear you cry! To a degree yes, you’re right. You can’t spend all week eating McDonald’s just because IIFYM because you’ll be missing out on the micronutrients and daily requirements (more on this in my next post), such as vitamins and minerals found in wholesome foods like fruit and veg. As a rule of thumb, you should be eating 80% of your daily intake from wholesome food sources and the other 20% can be whatever you fancy… Just as long as it fits your macros!

Therefore, if you want to eat chocolate every day – do it! Chances are you’re more likely to stick to this lifestyle than some fad diet that you do for a few weeks and then pile it all back on again. And as such, gone are the days of tediously boring diets, restriction & suffering; hello flexibility, sustainability and more importantly… continued results!

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