 New York, unique New York, red leather, yellow leather, a red leather, yellow leather, Sally sell seashells by the seashore. Ladies and gentlemen, Silent Mike back with another video. The content continues a little bit different format a little bit different content today as many of you I live in California and I cannot go to a gym right now out of respect for our government demands and CDC recommendations as well as respect for my common man. So the lifting footage is not here but we had a very interesting talk. I have a brand new podcast I guess not brand new but it's a new 50% facts with the one and only legendary Jim McD and I think you guys will really enjoy it. I go in depth a little bit and I make it a little bit joking because I'm creating content but some of the issues we talk about are things I really struggle with and I've talked about them a little bit here but talking about my nutritional issues, my personal issues with food, what I struggle with. We have a registered dietitian on that answers our questions about emotional eating with our current situation that we're all going through being kind of stuck at home in lack of a better term and just stressed eating in general which is something stressed bored etc that I deal with. It's a little bit longer format so you can check it out on 50% facts on every platform Spotify itunes just search that 50 the number percent check it out on Instagram too that help a lot and if y'all are at home chilling I'm going live probably right now I'm probably live right now on twitch.tv slash salamike I've been streaming a lot of hours we're all hanging out we're trying to build community trying to build some positivity use a little bit of escapism during times of it like this where we can hang out with like minded individuals and try to have some fun so twitch.tv 50% facts enjoy this video give it a thumbs up new content coming every Monday regardless I'm going to try to teach learn be here together stick together comment below what you guys want to see coming up I appreciate you salamike I'm out. Everything's working the way it's supposed to excuse me so we had talked about this topic and doing this this emotional eating topic before everyone was suddenly at home and in fearing for the state of the world so I guess maybe we want to talk about it in kind of two different scenarios one being like normal life and then and then under situations where people are are quarantined I haven't left my couch in four weeks and my closet's full of cheeses what do I do yeah yeah very much so I mean a lot of us work at home and luckily I'm busy but Jim and I spoke previous and and and I'm for sure a non diagnosed whatever whatever but I got issues with food 100% and my parents raised me pretty good you know I told Jim like my mom's making home cooked meals that are pretty balanced some kind of veggie a little bit of carb a little bit of meat you know like generally speaking way better than the what I would consider the typical American diet and still for some reason when I'm bored when I'm anxious when I'm playing video games or watching a movie like my hand needs to be on something snacky you know and I think that's the yeah go ahead go ahead sorry it's asking yourself why are you reaching for those foods at that time is it just a pattern or it's just a regular routine that you're used to reaching for those foods when those times of boredom or like when you're just so used to it become a routine that you're reaching for those foods at those times that you're reinforcing it every day by doing it and keeping the snacks near you as well in front of the TV or by your computer do you have a stash there is that have a question typically what I try to do and it's maybe not healthy because we go the extreme the other ways I'll just keep no food in my house that's my that's my answer to this I'll keep okay I creep fat-free Greek yogurt in the fridge and and that's it otherwise it's it's downhill you know and that's in that and when I do a treat I've made myself like little rules and I'm you know I don't have there's extreme more extreme issues for sure I'm pretty active and generally healthy but for the sake of the podcast right now yeah for now you know I'll do like treats like little rules we're like all right I'm not gonna buy a pint of ice cream and keep it in the fridge if I'm gonna get ice cream I'm gonna go get a scoop at a place kind of thing and set these kind of rules up and I don't know if it's you know just a habit of boredom snacking or if it is deeper root okay yeah so first by not having any treats at home just having more healthier foods at home you're depriving yourself and I hear that from a lot of my clients actually that they don't keep any of the snacks at home but when they get a hold of the sex either at when they're at work or they go out then they go all out on it because they're treating themselves and that's when they go a little overboard like getting that extra scoop of ice cream or the extra side with their meal as they go out to eat or just getting a few donuts instead of like getting two or three donuts instead of one because they feel like they deserve it and they haven't had donuts for so long or that treat for so long that they just end up eating much more of it than they want so I do recommend to have some treats at home some things that you do enjoy so that you're not depriving yourself if you really enjoy those foods as well but making sure to asking yourself before you have them why are you eating those foods are you eating them because it sounds like for yourself you mentioned that you don't know if you're bored or sad is it you think about it before you go for it or do you just kind of oh I'll go for it and then maybe you think about it in retrospect after like a day or two after or like hours afterwards oh maybe I shouldn't have eaten that I mean I am bored I am bored and sad I just don't know if it's causing me to eat or not yeah do you take the time to kind of think about it before you reach for the food probably not and I was on Jim this too is like I'm so busy and and I'm pretty well educated on nutrition and the general scheme of things I think as well you know I've been in this fitness industry for a long time and chatted to a lot of really smart people but obviously our own habits are often beyond our own knowledge or like they they they bypass that and because I'm so busy I was telling Jim too is like you'll I'll just go through the day and it's one way the other just like you said in your head you're just like man I haven't eaten all day like got to get some calories in I got a workout later right I got a heavy squat session haven't eaten for six hours like all right we'll do double portions at Chipotle like time to go in and it's so easily justifiable you know yeah so maybe it's a matter of also making sure that you're scheduling your regular meals throughout the day as well because if you're not you know then we know the foundations of nutrition something you're very educated and I expect but applying it for your lifestyle as well so making sure that you do have those like whatever is regular for you breakfast lunch or dinner might not be regular for some people maybe having a later breakfast or a later snack and then having lunch and then having an afternoon snack and dinner might be something that you work better for you or and then making sure that you do follow those having some regiments into your routine as well so you're not overly gorging or indulging and getting like two chipotle's at a late time in the day because you're so hungry and then you have loose control because when you order the two chipotle's and then maybe going out for ice cream after you like you mentioned and then ordering I don't know something like another pastry item after that as well just because you're so hungry you want to be field for your workouts yeah yeah 100% that's probably my number one thing is I I don't love breakfast so I don't eat breakfast and then yeah just trickles down the road how does someone know in the first place because eating is kind of like an intimate thing in a weird way we're like yeah you'll share meals with people but that's like on occasion I don't know how the normal like American eats I have a general idea of like how the normal like competitive bodybuilder eats again because that's the like world we're kind of in but how do you know if you even have you know a quote unquote issue with any of this to begin with you know because again like I'm not like overweight or unhealthy I exercise and you know if I went to a doctor I'm pretty sure all my stuff would be pretty good you know 31 and maybe my BMI is a little heavy because I have some muscle on me but generally speaking pretty healthy but I just know because I'm overly self-aware and because I'm in the industry I don't have a best relationship with food but how does the normal person know if their habits are healthy or not um that so one thing that you can do is actually keep a journal of your food for the day so rain down what you're eating throughout the day for I would suggest doing it for a few days including a weekend day and then rain down how you're feeling before the meal and how you feel after the meal and and write down what you approximately ate during the meal so that gives you a way to evaluate what trends that you have and also see it from a like a very close objective like a non-objective objective perspective so making sure that so you're seeing it from not a retrospective oh I think I did this but it's actually very true to the point of how you're feeling at that moment and because it's also easy to overestimate what you ate and what you think you ate as well or what you didn't eat so having that kind of a journal would help evaluate what you're eating so you think it may be while everyone is at home without a whole lot of other things to do that may be stepping up those kind of efforts and and basically kind of tracking every day might be a better solution and not to the point of obsession but just to the point of of monitoring because we are all definitely less active than we were you know a couple of days ago so we're not burning as many calories so we shouldn't really need as many calories either right yeah that's correct even things like little things like walking to the bus stop or walking to the subway station we're not doing those little things anymore we're just working from walking from the bed to our dining table or computer room or anything like something like that so yes definitely working out doing less activity and especially with the access to food seem more available just a few steps away now versus it's being so convenient that we might be a lot of my clients actually snacking a lot throughout the day that I'm finding because they're bored or they're stressed or it's just right there and it's just so much easier than to plan out their meals so yeah writing it down and taking note of how you're feeling throughout the day actually you can take inventory of that and then review it after a few days to see if there's any trends and kind of nip that in the butt right away so that you know what's going on and how to plan your meals better since we're all at home and we have access to the food which gives us that luxury it's a good it's both good and bad because it's the luxury of being able to cook healthy meals but it's also giving us that luxury of being perhaps more a little bit more lazy and not wanting to cook because we have snacks or we have food available all the time