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The Sliding Scale
We get the question “What about _______?” all the time. You can fill in any random food name in the blank and I guarantee we’ve been asked the question. Whether its coffee, green tea, beef jerky, agave nectar, diet soda, or whey protein – we’ve always answered this question with a question: well, how’s your diet aside from ________?
You see, too often people are worried about the silly details before they address the big picture items that affect their diet waaaay more than ________. For instance, did you have breakfast today? How many meals did you have yesterday? Did you eat all three macronutrients at each meal? Shit… do you know what a macronutrient is?!? The simple things are what make or break your diet.
Of course, we give in and answer the question “What about ________?”. Usually we’ll preface any answer we offer with “What about _________?” Afterwards, we describe the concept of the sliding scale. I’ll use the example of diet soda. When we’re asked if drinking diet soda is a good idea, we’ll offer the idea that on a sliding scale of a perfect diet to a lousy diet, a diet soda might fit somewhere near the middle-to-bottom (closer to lousy). But, if the individual currently drinks 4 liters of Mountain Dew (not diet) a day, we would say that on the sliding scale… it’s a step in the right direction.
Now, if a finely tuned paleo/zoner asked the same question, we’d mention that on the sliding scale this would be a lot worse than drinking water, black coffee, tea, or flavored water (lime in a glass). Catch my drift? Will a diet soda give a paleo/zoner diabetes and land him/her in a nursing home? Probably not… but, it’s a place to improve the diet, health and performance.
So start with and refine the basics, from there we can work on the what about_______?’s
