 Next question is from Sonya greewall 0 1 What would you do when you do not feel like eating? Let me start over here What should you do when you do not feel like eating or not hungry but still need to maintain your caloric intake? Okay, so without knowing too much more or more information about this person I'm gonna assume you're a healthy individual because there could be some psychological stuff I've had this with female clients in particular where I'm trying to get them to eat any Appropriate amount of calories and they just psychologically the block there. They're afraid of gaining weight But let's just say you're a healthy person and your body's like I'm not hungry. Okay step number first number one I would say listen to your body, okay? Forcing your body in one direction or another usually means it's probably not the best for your body But let's say you've got these really hardcore goals You know and you do have and when you have really really specific goals Sometimes you do need to push your body a little bit I would say the first thing I would do is look at what I'm eating and seeing if it's causing any digest Digestive issues because eating more calories if you're eating foods that you are intolerant to and they cause bloat Or gas or acid reflux Those foods are gonna make it hard for you to continue to eat more calories I would go more to the fast digesting easy digestive types of foods for me that would be Beef and rice and well-cooked vegetables. I could eat a lot of those Potatoes to some extent if I push those too hard that'll cause me to blow wheat Definitely not that would make me not want to eat again because it tend to have digestive issues with wheat So that would be the first thing that I would say but there's other strategies, too Like if you've been bulking for a long time Like a few days of low calories typically would jump I was that's where I was gonna go right so my one it depends right like who we're talking to because there's there's a lot of Different ways. I think I would communicate this based off of what your goal is But something I think that has changed for me personally today that was different than maybe just seven eight years ago as a personal trainer I don't I so you this happened to me yesterday yesterday. I had what I have for breakfast I can't remember what I have for I think I had it in my my stable right now, which is pop starts for no for a sourdough toast and and then bacon and then I didn't eat again till late at that night And it was like chicken soup. That was literally like all I ate that I in the past. I Would freak out about that in the past because I was so hung up on getting enough calories and eating enough food And fear of losing muscle that I would run downstairs and eat a bag of popcorn ice cream Whatever anything just to get calories so I didn't lose right that where my attitude towards that now It's like it's like you just alluded to Salas if I've been eating You know ample amount of calories for three four five or a week or two weeks in a row Having a day of super low cut even a couple days of really low calorie will probably do me some good And so I don't really worry about it too much So it really depends where this client is at with their eating I mean if you're consistently eating in a surplus because you're trying to gain and then you have one day where you're Just like man, I'm just not hungry. I'm not feeling like it. That's I love to go low Go low that day because watch the next day your appetite will probably be kicking kick up I think that's the thing I would caution my client who I give this advice to so if I tell my client Hey, don't worry about you know eating the calorie intake, you know, you've been doing really good one low calorie days Not gonna hurt us whatsoever What I'd caution them is be careful because you went so low today Tomorrow you might feel these crazy cravings and have the temptation to want to go eat outside of your meal plan So that's the one thing that I would caution somebody who I'd say don't worry about one day If not hitting your calorie into a target is the next day you may find your craving now If you're that like classic hardgainer, right? If you're that person that's just metabolism is roaring your skinny It's you find it very hard to gain any weight and you're really dedicated to doing this Drinking some of your calories say smoothies or shakes. Yeah, I mean, you know if you can tolerate dairy Like this is here's an easy way to add 500 calories to your diet Drink a glass of whole milk with breakfast lunch and dinner. I mean, I'll get I'll put some nice Calories give you some extra protein and it doesn't feel you up nearly as much as food. Well, but but again I think for the average person you got to listen to your body. I think when you push your body Too hard in one direction or another and you're ignoring your body signals The the detriments outweigh any positives you might get from the extra calories