Eliminate This One Food Category, And Double Your Weight Loss (New Study)
The Consistency Project
EC Synkowski
4.9 • 562 Ratings
🗓️ 3 September 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
We're discussing the impact of ultra-processed foods on weight loss and unpacking recent headlines suggesting that eliminating these foods can double your weight loss.
You’ll gain insights into how dietary guidelines can promote healthier eating habits and why understanding calorie intake is crucial.
After you listen, you'll see that the core simplification is the importance of focusing on overall calorie consumption rather than demonizing specific food categories.
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The Consistency Project aims to simplify nutrition, health, and well-being by breaking down the concepts and actions we can all take to live fuller, more functional lives.
ABOUT US
📍 EC Synkowski is a Certified Nutrition Specialist® (CNS), a Licensed-Dietitian Nutritionist (LDN), and Certified CrossFit Level 4 Coach (CF-L4). She's the founder of OptimizeMe Nutrition and the creator of the #800gChallenge®. Find her on social media.
📍 Patrick Cummings is a long-time CrossFitter, kid's book writer, and podcaster. Find him on social media.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Consistency Project podcast. My name is Patrick Cummings here, as always with E.C. Sinkowski. Every week on the show, we simplify the principles and practices of nutrition, health, and fitness to help you perform better, feel better, and of course live better. Thank you so much for tuning into the show. Hello. How are you, E.C.? Wonderful. How are you doing? Wonderful. Happy September to you. Happy fall. Today we're going to talk about |
| 0:22.8 | ultra-processed foods and their impact on weight loss and why headlines don't always tell |
| 0:27.7 | the full story. We're specifically talking about some attention grabbing headlines about doubling |
| 0:33.1 | your weight loss that you saw recently. So let's break, let's get right into it. What are we |
| 0:38.4 | talking about? Why are we talking about it? Maybe hit on those headlines that even I saw. |
| 0:42.3 | Yeah. Yeah, I saw a bunch of different articles on this. So this was early last month in August. |
| 0:49.0 | The study by Dickin in the show notes basically was talking about the effects of ultra-processed food in the diet. |
| 0:59.1 | And so some of the news article headlines that were related to the study were, you can |
| 1:03.3 | double your weight loss by ditching this cancer-causing food from your diet. |
| 1:06.9 | Another one was cutting out one food type can nearly double weight loss. |
| 1:10.4 | New study suggests. And another one was avoiding ultra-process type can nearly double weight loss new study suggests and another |
| 1:11.7 | one was avoiding ultra-processed foods can double your weight loss so all different permutations of that |
| 1:17.8 | concept and so of course we're not talking about just one specific food to eliminate but rather ultra-processed |
| 1:23.6 | foods as a whole category and i and i was like okay, let me dive into the study a little bit. |
| 1:29.0 | And looking more into the study, I think both the news articles and the study itself have some more |
| 1:35.3 | interesting conclusions than just sort of this concept of ultra-process foods that we've talked about |
| 1:40.4 | before. But just really quickly, I know we've talked about this distinction with ultra-processed |
| 1:45.1 | foods. I have always kind of just called them processed foods, but this more classification |
| 1:49.7 | that's being replicated in the various studies, it really refers to these foods that have |
| 1:54.1 | ingredients that you couldn't recreate in your own kitchen. There are all these additives that, |
| 1:59.1 | in part, different taste, |
| 2:01.1 | a taste, yes, but more so texture and flavor and preservation. And it's not that the additives |
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