Five Minute Answers: Willpower, Eating on Vacation, GLP-1s, & Orthorexia
The Consistency Project
EC Synkowski
4.9 • 562 Ratings
🗓️ 28 January 2026
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
We're answering five listener questions this week. We’re talking about when you might need a mental health pro to help you with your nutrition, orthorexia, getting through a 10-day vacation with your diet intact, and more.
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ABOUT THE SHOW
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.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome back to the Consistency Project podcast. I am Patrick. I am here as always with E.C. |
| 0:06.7 | Sinkowski. Every week we aim to simplify the principles and practices of nutrition, health, and fitness. |
| 0:13.1 | And we thank you for joining us. If this is your first time, we thank you especially. Make sure you subscribe to the show wherever you are listening to this. |
| 0:20.4 | You don't miss anything else. How you doing, EZ? Great. Ready for some questions. |
| 0:24.8 | That was as excited as you get. That is. I mentioned this last week. We did a QuickBites. We haven't |
| 0:31.6 | done this for a while, so we're kind of getting a bunch of questions in. Last week we did a QuickBites, |
| 0:35.5 | which is just when you answer listener questions. We focused on training and exercise in the gym last week. This week we're going to focus |
| 0:42.8 | on nutrition, yeah? Yeah. All right. We've got five questions before we jump into it. Just a |
| 0:48.7 | quick reminder, as I like to do, three pillars method.com is the place to find EC's app the three pillars method if you've been |
| 0:56.0 | listening to the show or if you're new here that is the most next logical step for you to take |
| 1:01.7 | go from information to action three pillars method dot com all right ready for these questions |
| 1:07.1 | let's do it all right carla is up first it's a little bit of a long one, but I'll try |
| 1:11.4 | to get through it without stumbling. She said, you said, referring to you, while losing weight does |
| 1:16.7 | come down to cutting calories, a successful plan will need more comprehensive guidance at the individual |
| 1:21.7 | level, for example, mental health, sleep types of food, end quote. For those of us who feel that |
| 1:27.2 | they've got the academic |
| 1:28.5 | knowledge about nutrition down, but struggle to actually stick with the plan consistently, |
| 1:33.9 | where do you suggest focusing? When do you think someone should seek help from a mental health |
| 1:38.6 | professional versus nutrition help? I think I'm in the class of category. I've been tracking |
| 1:43.4 | calories aiming for a |
| 1:44.6 | modest deficit, 0.7 grams of protein, enough fiber, lots of fruits and veggies for a long time, |
| 1:50.4 | about two years, but not losing weight. Not because of some magical math problem, |
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