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Hey Reader,

Losing body fat isn't just about eating less food.

It's about eating fewer calories.

But what if I told you you could eat MORE and lose body fat?

I am about to share with you the cheat code.

It's called the GPC Score.

What does GPC stand for?

“Grams Per Calorie”

This is going to gauge the “density” of calories within a given food.

Think of this in terms of your hard-earned mula:

Am I getting the best “bang for my buck?”

This gauges, “Am I getting the best bang for my calories?”

The higher the score, the more food you get to eat.

For example, let’s compare two of my favorite foods.

First up, my beloved Watermelon 🍉 

For foods without a food label, I like to use 100g as the base comparison.

So I need to find how many calories are in 100g of watermelon.

Watermelon (per 100g) = 30 calories

Now I need to find the GPC Score.

I do this by dividing the grams by the calories.

So 100g/30 calories = 3.3 GPC score.

Hope that all makes sense.

So let’s take my other favorite food.

The classic Frosted Strawberry Pop Tart 🍓

Since this does have a set serving size, we’ll just use that.

On the box, the serving size is two pop tarts.

Side note, pretty cool to see the FDA crack down on realistic serving sizes.

No one is breaking open a sleeve of two pop tarts and only eating one lol.

Anyways, so now we need to find out how much these pop-tarts weigh.

Next to the serving size, it says 96g.

Cool, so now we look to see how many calories are in the serving size.

Sheeeeesh 380 calories 😅

So now we take the grams and divide it by the calories to find the GPC Score.

So 96g/380 calories = 0.25 GPC score

Aka a really really bad score.

Are you starting to see how this is a pretty cool grading system?

You can eat MORE food for fewer CALORIES with this as a tool.

Let’s go into another example...

The result might shock you.

The protein source that we love or hate:
​Boneless, Skinless Chicken Breast.

I love it because it has the macros of the GODs.

And there are a million ways to make it taste amazing.

It gets a lot of hate but I think that's just from the people who suck at cooking (I’ll save that rant for another email lol).

Let's find the calories per 100g since that's our standard.

And this is chicken breast weighed raw, not cooked.

The cooked weight is less accurate because it will shrink different amounts in weights based on the cooking method.

The raw weight is constant so it's the most accurate.

So per 100g of Raw Chicken Breast = 110 calories

Now we divide the grams by the calories.

100g/110 calories = 0.9 GPC score

So that might be confusing.

Aren't chicken breasts super macro-friendly aka low calorie/high protein?

Well yes, they are! But the serving size is quite dense.

Especially after you cook it and it loses on average about 25% of its weight.

Meats are not going to score really well here.

That's why they are on top of the salad, not the base of the salad.

I have a better score for them coming in the future with the CTP (calories to protein) score.

And a super easy way to tie the GPC with the CTP to make you invincible!

But I just wanted to use this email to share a framework I am working on!

Let me know if you'd like a comprehensive guide of all foods and how they rank on the GPC Score scale.

It'll be a lot of work but if enough of you want it, I'll make it happen 🫡

Until then, start taking some of your favorite foods and seeing how they rank.

Your GPC Analyst and friend,
​Zach

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