2953: 7 Easy Food Swaps That Lower Your Calories Without Changing How Much You Eat

Justin Andrews (0:00)

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Sal Di Stefano (0:13)

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Adam Schafer (1:55)

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Sal Di Stefano (2:10)

All right, we're gonna talk about food swaps. Eat this instead of that. These are easy ways to lower your calories, bump your protein, and get better results and still taste something that tastes really good. These are great tricks, check it out.

Adam Schafer (2:24)

I like this, this is top of mind for me right now. I've got three weeks till Cabo. And this is one of the ways, I like this because this is one of the ways that I will, without really tracking, just tighten the diet.

Sal Di Stefano (2:35)

Little things.

Adam Schafer (2:36)

Right, it's like this versus that. And just knowing that exchanging some of these foods that I would normally eat for other options, I know I automatically just lower calories. So if I can just discipline myself to make those options for the next few weeks, it's enough to drop a couple percent.

Sal Di Stefano (2:52)

You know who's king of doing these things are physique and bodybuilder competitors. They're like the best at this kind of stuff because of that.

Adam Schafer (3:00)

That's where I got all mine from.

Sal Di Stefano (3:01)

That's right, because of the crazy pre-contest diet, the restrictions.

Adam Schafer (3:05)

Top of mind all the time.

Sal Di Stefano (3:06)

It is, and it's like, you know, and the food cravings, you know, when you're a competitor and you drop calories, you're trying to get down to 2% body fat, which I don't recommend anybody try, it's not healthy, but the food cravings get so insane. I've only ever gotten down, I've got down to about 4% body fat, so I'm never down to 2, but I remember dreaming about food.

Adam Schafer (3:26)

Only time in my life. Only time in my life I ever dreamt about food. Yeah, it was really weird.

Adam Schafer (3:31)

I got as far as changing my lattes to black coffee. That was a big step for me.

Adam Schafer (3:36)

That's none of the less. It's a big step for me, yes.

Put that on the list. Good job, Justin. I love it. No problem.

Sal Di Stefano (3:43)

All right, so at the top, this is kind of an easy one. This does make a big difference, which is people like to snack. Now, generally speaking, I advise against snacking. I think Adam's the one that says there are no such thing as snacks. There are complete meals and incomplete meals.