Stop Making Nutrition Complicated: The Case for Boring, Simple, & Imperfect Eating
Chasing Excellence
Ben Bergeron & Patrick Cummings
4.8 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 18 March 2025
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
The 3 Big Questions We're Answering:
1. How can we simplify nutrition without compromising results, and what role does consistency play in achieving dietary goals?
2. What is the psychological impact of dietary choices, and how can we cultivate a healthy relationship with food to avoid guilt and self-sabotage?
3. In what ways can understanding personal identity influence our eating habits, and how can we use that knowledge to foster long-term healthy eating patterns?
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| 0:00.0 | We believe health is the foundation that unlocks freedom. |
| 0:07.2 | The freedom to live fully, to be an asset and not a burden, and to chase what truly matters. |
| 0:13.5 | Through daily practices and proven frameworks, we are here to help you build deep health, |
| 0:19.3 | find lasting peace, and live with your heart on fire. |
| 0:24.3 | Welcome to the chase. |
| 0:29.4 | Hello and welcome back to the show. As always, I'm here with Mr. Ben Bergeron. We are joined as well |
| 0:35.8 | by friend of the show, E.C. Sinkowski. How the heck are you two? |
| 0:40.7 | Wonderful. So happy to be here. Thank you. Wonderful and happy to have E.C. here. |
| 0:45.2 | It's a beautiful spring day here. I don't know what it's like down where you are, E.C. |
| 0:49.2 | But I'm in my happy place today because the weather is finally turning. |
| 0:54.3 | Get rid of the snow and the wind. Yep. |
| 0:57.0 | So I'm excited to have you on for a very specific reason, which is you've been working very hard at building a new app. |
| 1:03.2 | And it is coming out. And we wanted to make sure folks knew about the app. |
| 1:06.8 | Before we get into the conversation we're going to have, which is obviously about nutrition, |
| 1:10.7 | can you just give us the quick Cliff Notes version |
| 1:12.7 | of what the app is and what folks might need to know |
| 1:15.0 | or want to know before we get into the conversation itself? |
| 1:18.3 | Yeah, hopefully it's a kind of a culmination |
| 1:20.0 | of all the different kind of products and services |
| 1:21.8 | I've offered to date. |
| 1:22.9 | And it really is a combination of education, |
| 1:26.1 | meal inspiration, and also accountability. And I think what I'm trying |
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