Changing your Body with Nutrition

So food quality is huge. I mean, I would say the biggest thing that I tell my clients is like, okay, you know, if we're looking at your foods, we want to make sure that at least 80% of your day is made up of foods that either had a face at some point or grew from the Earth at some point. So how to face at some point is going to be an animal, meat, seafood, or obviously something that comes from an animal.

So if you're having to eggs from a chicken, or maybe I would consider, you know, good quality yogurts and cottage cheese, those are forms of dairy that come from animals, obviously, so had a face at some point or grew from the Earth at some point would be your vegetables, you know, your potatoes, things like that. And then that would be what I would say, Okay, let's, let's start there. Let's make sure that at least ad's, and it depends on where the person is coming from. Right. If they're coming from a highly processed diet, then maybe we're like, alright, let's work on 60% of your day looking like this.

And let's work up to that 80%. And then kind of, you know, telling them like, hey, you know, if 20% of your, the rest of your diet is maybe some other processed foods, but that works within your, your lifestyle, and you're still getting all the things that you need from those Whole Foods, then then that works, right. And so that's one of the biggest things that it's just kind of for myself kind of diving into their food logs, looking where they're at, and then seeing how we can tweak things without completely overhauling everything at once. Because usually, that's just a recipe for disaster, if you're like, hey, you're eating this way, let's completely changed things. And that's really also like, within, you know, the 21 Day Challenge and things like that, I'm also trying to explain that through, like, Hey, if you're coming from the standard American diet, super, super high carb, like, we can start to transition things gradually. And so just really kind of looking at the individual and seeing where they're coming from.

And then, you know, working from there, like I haven't, like I said, I have a lot of women coming to you if they want to change your body composition, but there's so so just stuck in this restrictive mindset, this restrictive cycle, whether it's, you know, cutting out carbs, cutting calories, like staying being in a deficit, you know, years on end, and but I think the biggest thing with women and especially like, they want to get arms that look toned, or whatever it may be, it's like you have to lift weights to do that you have to, you know, put yourself in a place where your body is going to repair and rebuild and that means eating a food and going through that cycle versus thinking that you know, you can just continue to restrict and you'll get those toned arms if you lose the body fat.

But if you don't have any muscle under that body fat you're not going to look the way you want to look and that's one of the biggest, you know pieces that I try to you know, hammer into my clients heads because I went through that myself like you have to spend time you know, building muscle and spend time it at maintenance calories or in a slight surplus and not be afraid to maybe see that skill go up for a little while, because that is a necessary part of putting on muscle right? It doesn't just pop out of nowhere.