05/29/2026
How do you know if the nutrition reel/video you're watching is legit? This list from my fellow mil spouse Suplicki is a great place to start!
Keep scrolling if:
🚩 They declare a food or entire food group "bad." Bread isn't the enemy. Neither is fruit.
🚩 They make veiled threats. "If you eat this, you will NEVER reach your goals." or "if your form looks like this, you will die."
🚩 They throw around words like "hormones" or "chemicals" with zero explanation of the actual mechanism. "This will balance your hormones" which ones? Doing what, exactly? (Note: this doesn't apply to medical practitioners who are actually running your bloodwork and looking at specific values.)
🚩 They sell the thing they're telling you that you need.
🚩 Their results are your results, apparently. "This worked for me so it'll work for you!"
🚩 If they say "Most trainers don't want you to know this." I have been a trainer for 15 years, and I am literally DYING for you to know everything I know. It is my life's work.
🚩 "Studies show. " Which ones? Who was studied? For how long? On how many people? Conducted by whom? Pubmed ID please, and please have read the entirety. not the abstract
🚩 "Studies PROVE." No. Studies suggest. Studies add to a body of evidence. Studies open more questions. Nothing in science is proven with a single study
🚩 They use big words and scientific-sounding language to explain things. Good science communicators want you to understand, not to be impressed by them. If you leave more confused than when you started, that's a them problem.
The fitness industry profits from confusion. The boring truth is that the basics, done consistently, beat any protocol, supplement, or secret hack, every single time.
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