Yesterday I posted an Instagram video on how I haven't eaten a Reese's Peanut Butter Egg in years and I was going to enjoy one. Yes, I said one. The point of the video is that there really are no bad foods. It's bad quantities of foods that cause real problems.

It has become more popular than ever to vilify different foods and entire macros, such as carbs. Take an athlete like Tom Brady who doesn't eat nightshade vegetables. Seriously, tomatoes, peppers, and potatoes are now even getting a bad rap.

I am not saying these diets don't work, rather, they aren't the only effective nutritional strategies out there. For example, John Cisna, a high school science teacher lost 56 pounds over six months and showed significant improvements in his cholesterol eating nothing but McDonald's. He stuck to 2,000 calories a day and walked 45 minutes.

Do you mean to tell me eating less and exercising more is how you lose weight. Yeah, but that's not sexy and you can't really sell a book or program just based on that. However, if paying someone makes you feel better, post your email below and I'll send you a Paypal invoice for my advice.

Now for those who know me, I'm very strict about my macros. As an athlete I want to use my nutrition as a tool to become leaner and stronger. However, if I chose to have a large McDonald's fry during the day, I can work it into my macros. It just pretty much takes up half my fats. So I'd rather make my own fries at home and leave more room for those fats and calories elsewhere.

There is one caveat to all of this, that's if you have an identified medical issue which prohibits you from eating certain things. Then there's probably a list of foods you shouldn't eat.

So as far as I'm concerned, there is no list of bad foods. Keeping your calories where they need to be will get most of us where we want to go.