 Hey, Ron Dustin Schaefer here, the Keto Pro. I'm super excited with this topic. This is one of my most favorite passion topics you'll ever hear me talk about. And it really comes down to should we be counting macros? Should we be measuring stuff? Well, the reality is, is that yes, there's success in measuring things. You know, bodybuilders, diabetics, weight watchers. There's all these different people that have been measuring things and have seen success. But long-term, I've never seen them successful. Always short-term, it'll see a level of success. Almost never see a long-term success. And this is why. It's a primitive brain. It's a behavioral component. So what happens is when we measure macros, how much fat, how much carbs, how much protein, when we measure how much vitamin you're getting, and how much fiber you're getting, when we measure the weight on the scale, and we measure your food and measure the amounts and the ounces and blah, blah, blah, blah. It's overwhelming. And it increases the stress hormone called cortisol. And cortisol is a stress hormone that actually causes you to gain weight, especially around the midsection. So we don't want to stress people out. Now, is there situations where you can measure something? So I'm gonna give you a couple of simple systems, or simple tricks that you can use to measure. So for you that need to measure, you can measure a little bit. But when people come to me and say, hey, Dustin, I need a plan. Give me a plan. Give me, tell me exactly what to do. Guess what? It always ultimately fails. They'll get a short-term success, but it almost always will ultimately fail. And the reason why is that there is no perfect plan. There is no exact measurement for anybody. There isn't. It doesn't work that way. You have to be able to adjust it over time. But if you stick to it, once you've made your shifts and changes, your body's gonna evolve. So you always are constantly have to eat changes thing. That's why people never stop Weight Watchers. They're on it for 30 years, but yet they're never really where they wanna be either. They're never really happy. There's maybe a handful, but a small number. And so should you count macros? My advice is no, you shouldn't. Should you be aware of your macros? Absolutely. So this is my simple rule. Is when you're starting out in your journey and whatever your journey is, doesn't matter. Maybe you track it for the first couple of weeks, just to get an idea of what you're doing. There's no right or wrong, but an ideal. What am I doing? What does it really look like? Okay, let me see if I can just make a couple of adjustments and frameworks. Now, what happens next is that what you wanna do is then you wanna just learn how to live that way with those little adjustments. Can you make a two degree adjustments? Can you eat less carbs and live that way? If you can, then great. You just shouldn't have to count them, right? To know exactly what one day I had 17, the other day I had 27. Is that okay, Dustin? I actually don't know. Maybe it's okay. Maybe that threw you completely out of whack. We don't know. We have to figure it out. But we know that less is better. It carves, or at least carves relatively, right? So once a month, check in. Once a month, use the scale. Once a month, maybe check out your day of your macros to kind of give yourself an idea of where you're at. So my rule is if you wanna measure, measure once a month. The first couple of weeks you can do it as a way just to kind of get an understanding of where you're at. But once a month, measure. Because anything more than that, it becomes obsessive and you try to decide what's right or wrong and just that does not work long term. You think about the paleo man or the Cape Man or Wayman or everybody in the ancestor. Do you think that they were measuring everything? No, they were just hoping to get, happy to get food. So what we know is this. Eat less food, eat less often. Eat when you're hungry and keep your carbs down and eat as clean, healthy, pure foods as possible. You are in a good place. We know that that and you need to measure that. No, you don't. Do those things as often as you possibly can and then make subtle adjustments. Follow the page, like the page. Follow everything else that I'm saying down here in our page, in our YouTube channels, in our Facebook page, in our websites. Follow everything else and you'll get a plan. You'll figure out your plan, your system that ultimately you can live your life with without measuring everything. That doesn't work long term, y'all. Have an unbelievable day. Share this video if you get value from it. At least like my page.