Stop Letting Tech Do the Work: The Old-School Method That Actually Makes Diet Changes Stick
Chasing Excellence
Ben Bergeron & Patrick Cummings
4.8 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 16 March 2026
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Can technology finally fix our nutrition struggles — or is it just adding more noise?
We dive into why calorie trackers, wearables, and AI-powered diet tools consistently miss the mark, and discover the surprisingly simple, old-school method that actually gives you accurate, personalized results without any of them.
In two powerful conversations with EC Synkowski, we explore why the friction of weighing and measuring your food isn't a bug — it's the feature that builds real awareness and lasting change. Learn why the path to dietary freedom runs straight through the inconvenience most of us are trying to avoid, and how your own weight trend is a more reliable guide than any app or algorithm.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome back to Chasing Excellence. I am Patrick. Thank you so very much for tuning in this |
| 0:11.3 | week. Today's episode is a little bit different. We have done this once or twice before, but we're |
| 0:15.4 | bringing over two conversations from my other podcast, The Consistency Project that I do with Ms. E.C. Sinkowski. |
| 0:24.0 | E.C. is my go-to for all things nutrition. She's an absolute master at cutting through the noise |
| 0:29.3 | and making complex science actually makes sense for muggles like me and perhaps like you. |
| 0:35.5 | I'd like to think of it as high fact, low BS. If you've been listening |
| 0:39.5 | to the show for a while, you certainly know EC-Well. She's been on a bunch. In fact, we did actually |
| 0:44.4 | do this, brought some shows over into chasing excellence in January with an episode we called |
| 0:49.3 | an upside-down food pyramid and new healthy labels won't save us. So if you like this and you didn't listen to that, |
| 0:56.3 | do go back and then of course check out the Consistency Project podcast wherever you're listening |
| 1:00.9 | to this so you can get even more. Before I tell you about what's to come and we get into the |
| 1:06.0 | episode, I've got an announcement. I've got something I'm excited to tell you about last year or perhaps a |
| 1:12.1 | little bit over a year ago. I wrote my first kids book. It's called the ABCs of being happy |
| 1:17.8 | and healthy. You can get it on Amazon. And just this week, I published my second kids book. It's called |
| 1:24.9 | What's a Win I Won Today. And the idea is pulled directly |
| 1:29.0 | from a conversation that we had here on the podcast with our friend Mark England of Enlisted. |
| 1:35.6 | It was in an episode where we were talking to Mark about the motivations that we often have |
| 1:40.5 | behind our fitness, behind our pursuit of health. And now sometimes that motivation is fueled |
| 1:46.8 | by fear, by want, by shame, by self-judgment. And I asked him in that episode, what's something |
| 1:53.9 | that we can do for our kids to ensure that they don't grow up with these fears, with these |
| 1:59.7 | judgments, with this shame, such that their |
| 2:02.0 | pursuit of health is done out of love and excitement and enthusiasm. And his advice, which I loved |
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