Stop Obsessing Over Micronutrients: The Truth About Eating the Same Foods Most Days
The Consistency Project
EC Synkowski
4.9 • 562 Ratings
🗓️ 5 November 2025
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
We're discussing the practicality of eating the same foods daily and whether it's beneficial for your nutrition.
You’ll learn how to simplify your dietary choices without sacrificing nutrient intake, ultimately cultivating a balanced and sustainable approach to eating.
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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.
📍 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 back to the Consistency Project podcast. I'm Patrick Cummings here as always with E.C. Sikowsky. |
| 0:06.7 | Each week here on the show, we aim to simplify the principles and practices of nutrition, health, and fitness. |
| 0:11.8 | Thank you so much for tuning in the show. Hello, E.C., how are you? |
| 0:15.6 | Good. How are you doing? |
| 0:17.0 | Great. This week we're going to talk about whether it's okay if we eat the same thing every |
| 0:22.3 | stinking day. And I think for both of us, I hope the answer is yes. Because you and I think I have |
| 0:30.2 | very similar diets in terms of our consistency. How about better? We have consistent diets. |
| 0:36.5 | Before we get into that, though, the holiday season is almost upon us, which means, of course, holiday parties and holiday desserts. |
| 0:43.7 | If that's something that's been a challenge in years past, if you're not, EC has you covered. |
| 0:48.7 | EC, let's talk very quickly about what you're going to do inside of the Three Pillars Method app in December for folks |
| 0:54.8 | who maybe have some troubles around all those holiday parties? Yeah, I did this last year. |
| 1:00.8 | We did like an accountability group and it was great because guess what? The Atomgram |
| 1:04.8 | Challenge works really well through the holidays because you still have the flexibility to enjoy the |
| 1:09.6 | holidays. Yes. So we did an accountability group of just focusing on the 18-gram challenge for December, and so that's really the goal again this year, but now we're going to pull it off within the app. So there's going to be an improved Q&A feature for people who are already in the app. We're going to make that a bit better. And then we're also going to have some live streams through December and some fun prizes. So I think it's going to be a great way that people can kind of focus on again, not letting the diet go too far, but still enjoying the holidays. Love that. Okay. So a couple of things just to make sure folks know, optimize menutrition.com slash December. If you want to go, that's probably the easiest and quickest way to do so. second thing is if you want to go that's probably the easiest and |
| 1:44.7 | quickest way to do so second thing is if you're in the app you're in this accountability group |
| 1:49.4 | you don't do anything special so whenever you're listening to this if you want to jump in early |
| 1:53.7 | get a head start great EC will see you there in December and then the last thing is the pricing |
| 1:58.2 | which is going to be you can jump in at 397 for the entire year but EC But he's also got a little payment plan for it. If you want to pay $39 a month, you can also go that route. Cool. Yes. And that pricing also allows them to continue, of course, after. Of course. Yes, it's not just the accountability. Yeah. Yeah. You have to keep rolling inside the three pillars method. Okay, cool. All right, let's get into this conversation. Let's talk about this common concern that I think a lot of people have. I've long since dropped this as a concern of mine. But like, okay, I eat the same thing every day. I don't want to be that adventurous. I don't want to put that much effort in. Is it going to be okay? Yeah, I mean, I think one of the reasons why it's like something to think |
| 2:36.7 | about is I actually encourage people to find these routine days and just live them on repeat, |
| 2:42.1 | right? Especially once you already kind of know the numbers work out and you already like the foods |
| 2:45.8 | and it's easy to prep. I mean, it's very tempting to say, okay, cool, this is just what I eat |
| 2:49.7 | Monday to Friday or whatever it is. The main concern with it is really, I think people are concerned, well, am I just missing out on certain nutrients by eating the same exact thing every day? And so we kind of first need to ask, okay, well, what nutrients do we need in our diet for these weight, health, and fitness goals that are common. Okay, what are those nutrients? |
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