 On the scale of negative five to positive five what level of diet and fitness are you currently at and where should you be at on this scale David? Yeah we got to talk about it because this is trending right now everything from people at the negative five let's just say Nikki Avocado to a zero which is your average American all the way to ultra positive five which are people who are you know like counting out their macros and micronutrients every single hour of their day timing their glucose and insulin levels you know this whole spectrum Andrew is trending on the internet right now there is a ton of views across the spectrum so we got to break it down we got to let you know where you're at where you want to be and what that might entail so make sure you like subscribe and turning your notifications so in this video you have this scale that's negative five to positive five and you're going to be breaking down every level and what it means so that people can plot themselves so at least this is kind of like a video that's going to help your self-awareness guys we are we are not nutritionists we're not dietary experts I'm not a personal trainer although we have some experience with these people or at least watching these videos we've gotten personal training right but we're but we're not experts in it so I guess it's just for you to kind of understand where you fall yeah it doesn't mean that you got to decide and go to eat a bunch of cod livers or beef livers because that's the healthiest piece of meat that's most micronutrient pack you know most people are not going to be a positive five on a negative five to positive five scale at least you're going to know where you're at andrew let's just start real quick let's break it down at the negative five and I like giving it the negative because you know how some people like to rank things from a zero to ten I like to put the negative charge in there just to let people know we're we're we're going against the average okay okay to make it hit a little harder yes yes yes negative I guess I would say probably people in the negative five to negative three zone you might be in danger of some you know your doctor's not gonna like it yeah well I think you're probably developing some lifelong you know uh diseases or disorders possibly developing diabetes you know that's that's when you're in that sphere when you're really not trying to think about what you eat at all and probably what is readily available around you or that what you can afford oftentimes let's be honest is like just not good food right right right then we are in the negative two to negative one zone where people are like not trying to I guess look too crazy to the public eye however they're not really they have no knowledge of what's actually going to be good for them you mean they have no active like they're not putting any active effort into watching what they eat or their fitness right right and then we're at negative one to zero andrew this is actually a level that I have spent some time at where it's almost like you're just a low-key fat ass okay so what you're indulging a little too much you kind of think about your fitness and you're like yeah I don't want to be fat but then and I'm not only fat I don't want to be overweight I don't want to you know have all these I want to sort of be in good health but you're not trying very hard right right right it's almost like you're more going off just the the shadow silhouette or whatever you just look at yourself in the shower mirror or something like that and you're like okay I'm okay like this is this the type where you're like yeah I kind of want to be fit I like that idea and then someone's like hey we got cake and then you're eating like three pieces yes yes yes because at the end of the day you value the good feelings in the dopamine release you get from the junk food more than anything else but obviously if somebody asks you yo do you think junk food's good for you you're like no no no you know what it is you're not turning down anything delicious at this point mm yep you're it's almost like you're at the whim of what is offered to you ah so anyway now we are at the zero point right okay and zero two positive one charge basically where it's like we're caring about not eating ultra junk foods are you actively saying to yourself I don't want to be a fat ass maybe you're having some diet sodas or some low calorie sodas like that one brand that's popping right now ollie ollie poll which is what like 30 to 50 calories per can low calorie not zero calorie bit low calorie so you know what an impossible or beyond burger tastes like okay so you tried it so you're like because you're like you like the idea of it you're like okay maybe I need one once in a while you've probably had it in and out burger protein style okay so so you do care about getting your veggies in while you're also eating other delicious fatty like bad yes yes yes you might make like uh the good it's like almost like if you went to fried chicken spot you're getting the healthier sides but that's sort of like in a way the the reason you only have positive one because that's very nominal in comparison of what you do you get fried chicken and heavy salad dressing in your salad hmm but you get the side salad and maybe you get the roasted chicken so you get the roasted chicken you get the side salad moving on to number two andrew you like a little bit more organic things less factory refined foods I would say this is your average person who says you know I try to be healthy but has not done any research andrew beyond what they were taught in high school fitness class is this the type of person that when they see the calories on the menu they still try to calculate the calories to some extent but other than that they don't really think too much about it yeah I would say that somebody at a level two out of ten they they know what a panera bread is like you know panera bread they like feel healthy when you're on the inside but then you actually look at the macro and the micronutrients okay they kind of go for the turkey or chicken sandwich more often the turkey this is their compromise they're like hey I want a sandwich but I'll go for turkey and chicken possibly getting the grilled chicken option at mcdonald's okay um and or these people are starting to understand even what a macro is okay right obviously macro nutrients is what people are really really tracking right but obviously once we get to the higher level and they're micro nutrients too they're probably somewhat active yes um they probably know what a modern salad office spot like sweet greens is okay um they like the office lunch bowl spots they might take a daily multivitamin okay right they're not taking a bunch of supplements but they take the multivitamin so they're trying they're trying they may even understand andrew the carbohydrate difference between an apple and a berry right like your tart fruits versus your sweet fruits okay they may stay away from french fries mix sugary cocktails but you know this is when you're starting getting a tequila soda vodka soda territory you go for vodka soda or tequila soda instead of all the sugary cocktails I think that people start guessing calories or adding in their mind but they're definitely not tracking okay right because tracking is starting to get you know real technical tracking is like what you're calculating you're writing down you're recording yeah I would say at positive two andrew you have a scale but it's a regular scale because you know how nowadays there's like smart scales and stuff like that right right all right moving on to positive three andrew I would say that you're kind of like that fitness dude at work but you don't make money from it okay but you're a fitness guy like you're known as a fit friend yeah a fitness enthusiast or hobbyist um andrew interestingly enough if you go to a lower-end gym some of the personal trainers actually still fit into this okay but but not at the high-end gyms like probably not an equinox trainer or whatever like a like a berries boot camp trainer but maybe you know 24 hour in the suburbs who knows um you probably track your calories at least loosely and you try to eat things that are organic okay um you may put your calories in a app andrew at this point where you're starting to weigh your food out um you may look at maybe the weight of the food andrew some people actually keep a metric scale in their like in their kitchen at the number three level yes they're weighing their food at home and by the way when I say number three I could be talking about like 3.3 3.4 3.5 on this scale as well um you're probably eating a ton of eggs at this point uh very specific nuts not all nuts are good for you andrew but certain nuts are superfoods and you start to know your nuts yeah you got to know the ranking of nuts you know all the oils two indifferent nuts andrew here's the thing brazil nuts not good for you or or it's like really high caloric content give the big ones man they're actually really good too is it no no surprise is it a shock that the most luxurious nuts are the ones that probably no surprise macadamia nuts probably don't do much for you either so here is the ranking of meats andrew this is from a uh phd nutritionist channel obviously a hot dog of the meats got the f ranking obviously you got a beef liver or cod liver they were way up there somebody says uh you also have to know your maintenance and how many calories that you're consuming in a day basically you have to know your maintenance level what you if you're at a surplus or if you're at a deficit are you tracking on your apple watch or fitbit yeah at three yeah you probably have one and you probably are at least at least you know your steps if you not know everything else um you probably are thinking about intermittent fasting you have a uh probably like a what six to 18 window where you eat within six and you do not eat for 18 hours a day you're probably taking more than one supplement in terms of not just a multi vitamin you're probably taking other supplements depending on what you need all right um you are probably if you are not full keto or paleo taking heavy influence from keto and paleo and a lot of people i think would be better off doing modified versions of keto and paleo but not like the actual full version oh okay some versions at least like a half version yeah yeah like a half version you know why because there is an emphasis on whole foods you're eliminating a lot of grains and legumes right except for like the top top tier ones you're eliminating a lot of added sugars you're emphasizing healthy fats over you know saturated or trans fats and then uh both are effective for weight loss even modified versions of keto and paleo right right right moving into level four out of five andrew this is probably the max of people in terms of like a regular friend group there's probably not somebody beyond a four right like these are your super ripped friend like this is the friend whose fitness is part of their lifestyle they'd probably put it in their instagram profile yes they might even have fitness in their instagram username ah and um basically a lot of these people and i'd say most youtubers that are fitness people with whether amateur bodybuilders they fit in this because you can start to essentially make money at this level okay like you can run a fitness brand you can sell your supplements you can sell your training program you can do one-on-one training is this also like where they're start to design their body like shape their body like okay well i do certain shoulders because i want the shoulders to come out i want the v shape so i'm going to do obliques and blah blah things like that right right you're not just doing a shoulder exercise you're doing a left right middle shoulder exercise um i think andrew at this level four out of five they're starting to track all their food metrics beyond basic macros so they're not just tracking you know sodium saturated fats they're tracking micronutrients too like a lot of micro stuff i think they're weighing out their food on a scale all the time i think they're starting to care about their micro gut biomes and their biotics essentially this is where people andrew they start to cut out artificial sweeteners because artificial sweeteners can impact your gut biome and oh by the way andrew this is also a level that we are not even close to i'm not here man i'm not here let us know in the comments down below what level you are at so far um they start to know the thermal rating of different foods the thermal rating means the thermogenesis basically how much energy does your body expend even trying to process that food in your stomach so there's a calories that how much caloric energy it gives you food gives you and then there's also the measurement of how much your body has to burn to process that specific compound right because different foods process at different rates there are there are foods out there that take longer to process which are good or bad no it's good you want foods that take your body longer to process because it makes you keeps you full for longer and you burn more calories just eating an egg for example um you are starting to track things that the people at the other levels lower like one two three do not track andrew insulin glucose cortisol testosterone levels and you are probably getting them professionally tracked you're probably going to get a dexa scan every once in a while and stuff like that these things cost money yeah um andrew you are probably strictly following to the dot keto paleo intermittent fasting windows basically andrew you are starting to know the ranking of not just meats but of all the fruits all the beans all the vegetables all the seafood all the grains beverages oil dairy milks andrew you know how a lot of the time in the old school food pyramid they're just like yeah get your dairy in but even within dairy there is a strict hierarchy of what is good dairy mid-dairy and bad dairy right cheese is not the same as like skim skim milk yeah and i think that that's the biggest thing andrew when you uh like even listen in high school fitness class you might leave at best a one on the five scale oh like at the highest within high school nutrition you're leaving a one out of five and now we are breaking into the five out of five andrew less than one percent of people in america probably want to live at this level oh yeah i think it's very hard and it's very kindy like i guess costly too yes it could be costly it could make you maybe not like able to hang out with your friends yeah i would probably assume anybody who watches a lot of food videos on youtube probably is not a five a positive five no no no honestly if you watch a ton of food videos isn't it more realistically that you're at like a zero yeah one or two yeah one two zero yeah um andrew these people are probably listening not just listening but following every single thing that andrew huberman says or this guy who's trying to like uh get younger this one tech founder oh uh man i forgot his name jack johnson or whatever he's trying to like yeah turn back the guy who got a blood transfusion with his son in yeah i would say a lot of these people are starting to like piss people off because they say that everything's bad for you right these people they don't drink tap water they think of course all artificial sweeteners including monk fruit are bad for you because it messes with your biome and messes with this and that it's almost like what do you even eat at this point i would say that these guys would even say that you know how there's like different levels like people are like okay kroger's okay oh no i have to go to trader joe's oh i can't go to trader joe's i have to go to whole foods these guys are at like era one right like era one or nothing or they got those private brands or like the small brands that are like delivered to your dorm farm yeah like their almonds just got grown yesterday um andrew these guys uh maybe a little autistic when it comes to fitness and dieting in the sense of like just taking it to the 12 out of 10 level andrew they're eating a ton of beef liver even though it's gross and they'll say it's gross because of the amazing macro and micronutrients that it's packed with they'll eat a lot of rabbit deer venison which are arguably some of the most healthy meats even though there's some social stigma around eating elk deer and and rabbit i mean i would say at this point a lot of people are questioning why why are you at a five out of five what is it about it this make that makes you happy how do you afford it and why do you put your body through eating liver when you don't have to right you can eat grass grass fed beef you can eat pasteurized eggs they exist they're not that hard to find but these people are like nah let me take it a step further if it's not andrew they're not cooking with anything except real beef fat tallow like they will not cook with anything except those things and uh andrew i think at home they own all these expensive self monitoring systems such a as a glucose machine so they don't even need to go into the professional office to get all these things tracked they're tracking their own macro metrics so much andrew that they own the machines themselves right uh i guess david the five out of five level is pretty crazy i'm pretty sure nobody watching is at a five out of five uh watching our videos even when i watch the five out of five content on youtube i'm just like why would i want to live it looks very unappealing i guess what level are you currently at do you think i would say i'm at a 2.5 i'm at 2.5 i'm still not even the fitness guy at work like you know i'm between like a normie guy which is like a normie fitness yeah i wouldn't say you're not calculating and counting your macros and writing them down no you're not recording i tried to do it a few days that's not for you so i i think you get you can't be three you can't be a level three just yet we don't you're not using the fitbit okay but obviously we monitor a lot of what we eat what you eat right right you're very conscious about the brands and the ingredients now um cheat meals you do cheat meals yeah i mean we just had mexican food yesterday with our our friend we were ordering crazy enchiladas be enchiladas and are you fasting what kind of supplements you taking i would say that i'm taking a multivitamin and i am taking some uh other supplements protein protein uh for me i would say i'm at a at a two or 2.25 at a different way for me the easiest thing and this is my recommendation just that works for me is fast and just cut a meal out because that way you can eat a little bit more delicious stuff and not have to worry about it if you just eat less food too but i still try to eat well i always try to order veggies when we're at the restaurant you know i like my ceviche's i like my salads always like i'll eat the beef and all the i'll eat fried chicken once in a while but that's not something that we just go out and eat anymore you know what i mean yeah i gotta really want to try i think the key is here once you look at the scale that we broke down from negative five to negative two to zero to one to two to three to four to five i think that's really where the nuances came in it's key to know where you're at and where you want to be yeah that's the key it's not that everybody like we said i don't even know if people want to be around those five out of five guys that are like hey don't drink that tap water it's messing with your gut biome and you're like shut up like yeah i think it's realistic that people jump one point i think you can easily jump one point if you really have the right mindset yeah right and then jumping two points you probably have to change something about your environment either if you live with roommates that are always snacking if your roommates are at like negative two negative three it's going to drag you down drag you down a few points right yeah yeah yeah obviously it's easier if we live together so that we get to eat similar things right and you know but uh yeah anyways i mean i guess you guys what we're really asking is like what level do you think you're at and what level do you want to be at and that's realistic yeah and i think you got to set your your your sort of like your guidelines for example andrew we got the air fryer we eat a lot of chicken thigh bone in with the skin on and i was doing some research on it and a lot of people were saying the amount that the chicken thigh with the bone in the skin on is tastier than a chicken breast is ultimately worth it for some people who are willing to take the fat and the calories right because chicken thigh hat especially with the skin on way more fat tastes way better chicken thigh has a little bit more fat than chicken breast but it's also like in my opinion two to three times tastier yeah i think another thing is that i learned from watching a ton of videos like i said guys i watched even the five out of five people meat especially like organic meats are not bad at all because that animal ate a lot of vegetables if you if it's from the right farm and went through the right you know if they ate good food yeah yeah yeah so like meat is actually the only thing that most people can eat i'm not like promoting a carnivore diet but you can live on a carnivore diet interesting because the foods that you're eating they ate vegetables animals ate vegetables guys um andrew do you agree or disagree with this most super healthy foods andrew can taste good or very good but it's probably true that the most great amazing tasting foods are gonna be bad dude the most delicious foods are not low calorie like i've had a lot of good low calorie foods or even very good right very good food just some sprinkles uh actually vegan food can be pretty delicious but that's not necessarily low fat not necessarily solely only good for you either not not necessarily impossible or beyond is not necessarily great for you either yeah but uh yeah i mean i would say man the the most delicious foods i had felt guilty for sure you know dude when you eat full fat ice cream now you can tell the difference you can you just you just tell yourself though it's not worth it and for me i just i like to fast a little bit because uh uh also to save money so i think that there's two ways you can look at it in my opinion is like if you if you are saving money and saving calories and that's two good reasons why you should do something versus only just taking fun out of your life because a lot of people they don't like to diet because they find it to be grueling or they're stressed out at work so they want to stress eat and feel better which i understand you know it's like a like a psychotherapy yeah but then you have to have multiple reasons why and if you fast then you save money because you eat less food and you're eating better food by saving calories on healthier food yeah that's true and i think your cheap meals are going to taste even better because you're going to enjoy it more versus like if you're eating luxurious things for breakfast lunch your luxurious dinner is not going to mean as much exactly yeah i think long story short guys based off my research if you eat 10 times your daily weight in calories and make sure their quality calories you will lose weight 12x your body weight if you want to maintain in 14x in calories make sure their quality calories if you want to gain weight and you just got to eat whole foods both meat and veggies it is helpful if a caveman can recognize it that that's the whole concept of paleo like your ancestor from 100 generations ago on earth could still be like oh i i couldn't make out what you're eating i recognize it oh that's meat that's veggie yeah okay and i think that portion control is huge because a lot of people and they take the healthy fats thing too far and they might eat like six avocados in a day and like five spoonfuls of almond almond butter even though those things are good for you they're still like a portion aspect right so anyway guys i think overall my best advice andrew is to people to be between a two and a four on the scale like between negative five zero and positive five how about one to three to two to four i think that that is one of three is realistic i mean for a lot of people i think it's a lot easier to become at least a two um obviously there's some people out there that are negative that i think you can easily change one whole number tick with the right mindset change and you know what i realized this is the last thing i'll say andrew all there's all these channels making all these videos and i realized that it's sort of like basketball shoes you know how there's hoopers who just do not care what they wear they just want something good on their feet so i say yeah just get the lebrons the lebron 20 the lebron 21 get a kd kd 14 15 16 you're saying it generally works for it's gonna work for you you don't need to learn anything about midfoot carbon fiber shanks or any sort of like traction rating or any sort of compounds like just get those and you'll be okay you're saying that sometimes you know it can be very daunting to think about the complexities of a customized diet around you oh well i need a trainer to break down my lifestyle and a scientist to test my blood right and now i'm tracking micro and macronutrients but it's like hey just like don't eat this and this eat more of this and then maybe eat less food and stay active and that ultimately is like a good start yeah just get the hyper dunk the team shoe that's like generally for most people gonna be the best option however andrew there are other people who are gonna want to know the nuance ins and out of every diet aka every sneaker on the market and the pros and cons and find the perfect one for them yeah well don't let uh that get in the way of picking one you know because you just at the end of the day you need to get started the best diet is the one you do that's what i heard i heard a good quote that said the best diet is the one you stick to yeah that's the lebron 20 or kd line to be honest i mean there's some other good lines out there but you ain't gonna be wrong if you pick those shoes all right everybody thank you so much for watching let us know in the comments down below where you fall negative five the positive five on this dietary scale just know yourself you know so that you know where to get started and maybe you're happy where you're at that's fine too yeah you just gotta know so let us know in the comment section below what number from negative five to zero to positive five you're at where you want to be at and what changes you'd like to make also let me know if i was wrong i don't know i'm new on this journey too until next time we encourage debate we out hop hop boys peace