There’s a good reason for the saying “abs are made in the kitchen,” and it’s because nutrition is as important to your overall fitness and health as your time in the gym is. You’ve probably heard that you can’t out-exercise a bad diet, and it’s true. If your meals aren’t on point, you will only get so far from training alone.

If anyone knows about this, it’s Camile Leblanc-Bazinet. She recently took to Instagram to share the three most valuable things she’s learned about nutrition.

1. Focus on macros first.
2. Eat real food.
3. What you eat is as important as what you don’t eat.

Read her full message below.

The mystery has been solved! They were hidden in my back all along! ???? “ I’ve been working on my nutrition since I fell in love with fitness over 10 years ago! I think that the 3 best lessons I’ve learned are the following: 1- focus on the macros components first and once you master these start adding precision on the micros side 2- keep it simple and eat real food 3- what you eat is as important as what you don’t eat “ Let me know what is the best thing you’ve done for yourself and your health and who or what influenced you ?????

A post shared by Camille Leblanc-Bazinet (@camillelbaz) on Sep 1, 2018 at 7:47am PDT

What’s your best piece of nutritional advice?

Main image: Camille Leblanc-Bazinet/Instagram