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To define someone as an athlete in terms of Paleo nutrition goals, must they always be normal low weight, or can you apply the same guidelines for patients with excess body fat if you’re training hard? Is there a more exact definition for an athlete?

Okay, last question from the sent in calls for now, and I’ll switch over live call because I see some coming in. “To define someone as an athlete in terms of Paleo nutrition goals, must they always be normal low weight, or can you apply the same guidelines for patients with excess body fat if you’re training hard? Is there a more exact definition for an athlete?”

Chris: That’s a good question. I think it really depends on their goal. If they have excess body fat, and they have a goal of losing weight, then where they end up will probably be somewhere in the middle of my recommendations. I think it also depends on their goals with their training and their exercise. If they are just training recreationally for overall health benefit and also to lose weight, then the priority presumably would be weight loss, so the diet might be prioritized for that, but if they’re a competitive athlete and they’re training, they want to compete, improve their performance, then the diet has to take that into consideration, and they need to the amount of carbohydrate, and the way that it’s put together should reflect that. It’s pretty individual, and hopefully that helps you in your thought process.

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