There are a lot of diets that tell you that you don’t need to count calories, that all that matters is quality.
That’s bullcrap.
The truth is, the QUALITY of the food you eat and the QUANTITY of the food you eat are both important, and they both effect different results.
Case in point – Rober Downey Jr. has played Iron Man’s Tony Stark three times, and he’s played Sherlock Holmes twice. There’s a 20-25 pound difference between the two characters, depending on the movie. And yet, Robert Downey Jr looks wicked fit playing both characters.
The only difference is QUANTITY of food.
Both times Robert Downey Jr. did Iron Man directly after playing Sherlock Holmes, he said that he upped his caloric intake to 5000 calories per day to gain the weight to play Tony Stark.
More food = bigger and heavier.
But because he kept the QUALITY of food he was eating awesome, he gained muscle instead of fat.
And it goes without saying, he was doing really smart workouts for BOTH characters.
QUANTITY of FOOD = SCALE WEIGHT
QUALITY of FOOD = BODY FAT PERCENTAGE
by Josh Hillis, RKC, CPT, PES, ZMIS
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Right on, Josh! And the trick is to stay on the quality foods after weeks and weeks, it gets easier to cheat, especially when bulking. (Or at least it is for me)…
TOTALLY. The people who rock their diet 90% of the time can TOTALLY cheat the other 10%, and it seems to even speed up results.
The people who’s quality is spotty really get punished by cheat meals/days.
Great post and a good example using Robert Downey Jr.
I think, this huge mistake most people do.
They only pay attention on quality food, if they want to loose bodyfat.
But if they bulking, they think the quality of food does not matter.
Greetings,
Sebastian