 Next question is from Jay Canales 140. What's more important meeting your macros or meeting your calories? Almost sounds like a trick question because if you meet your macros, you're gonna meet your calories If you meet your calories, you don't necessarily meet your macros good point So in other words, if if if my targets are just arbitrarily 100 grams of protein 100 grams of carbs and 50 grams of fat. I'll just make up numbers here. I I could hit those same calories by Cutting my protein down to 50 and then adding those 50 to my carbs So the calories are the same but now I've missed my macro targets But if I hit my macro targets and I don't go over I'm gonna hit my my calorie targets So what's more important? It's kind of hard to say because again if you eat your macros or your calories But I will say this if you're consistently missing your essential proteins and fats then your calories don't matter You know, there's a great show on Netflix called alone that I've been watching and it's it's really really fun show So they take strangers they put them out in the wilderness and the idea is to see you can last the longest and survive And it's a very fascinating show to watch because you can see how people can starve Even though they have lots of food. For example, there's this, you know this one guy who kills a moose and He you know carves it up and everything and stores it Technically it should be enough meat to last the whole season. It could last them for a long time for months and months and months But a Wolverine comes and steals the fat from the meat that the moose So now he's left only with really lean meat Well, if he doesn't get fat if he doesn't get a fat source will starve to death He could be eat 10,000 calories of protein from meat But if he doesn't hit his minimum fat his body won't get the essential fatty acids and eats and he'll literally die From doing that in hunters and trappers in the past they would encounter this when they would when all they'd be able to do is catch rabbits So meeting macro minimums essential macros proteins and fats Very important regardless of your calories if you don't hit your essential proteins and your essential fats You could eat all the calories in the world and your body just won't won't be able to I think this question Just comes from the people always that are that are touting the law of thermodynamics right calories in versus calories out As long as you are in a caloric deficit You're going to lose and that's that is true, but to your point So I your if you are following your macros you are going to hitch your your calorie intake So sticking to that is a much easier strategy than just managing calories people that only manage calories I think of like the challenges as a trainer I'd have with like people that did like weight watchers Yeah Where it's just a point system and then I get a hold of them and I'm like oh well They got they ate all their points and fucking pudding, you know like that is not ideal Like that we need to we need to change this up So yeah, that may be getting you there to lose weight because it's got you only eating 1300 calories And that's gonna put you nutrient deficiencies exactly exactly so yeah, you know you're you yes calories matter that much that if you are in a deficit you will lose but Going that way and just ignoring macro targets is you know heading down a dangerous path