[ 🍽️ ] The 2 Questions to Ask Before Changing Your Diet
Chasing Excellence
Ben Bergeron & Patrick Cummings
4.8 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 28 June 2024
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
We’re revisiting a past discussion that focused on the basics of simplifying nutrition.
We explore the two primary considerations for creating a nutrition plan: understanding personal goals and determining one's eating style.
We discuss three essential buckets of nutrition—quality, quantity, and macronutrient balance—and how they align with different health and performance objectives.
00:00 Introduction and Episode Overview
02:29 Recommendation: Celebrating Your Wins
06:58 Thanks to our sponsors: The Defender & Washington Post
09:32 Starting the Nutrition Conversation
24:20 The Importance of Crunchy Foods
25:22 Tracking and Measuring Nutrition
26:12 Personal Nutrition Routine
28:47 Summer vs. Winter Diet
31:15 The Power of Food Choices
36:44 Simplifying Nutrition
42:00 Conclusion and Farewell
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| 0:00.0 | And the Hello and welcome back to Chasing Excellence, a show about chasing what truly matters. |
| 0:21.6 | My name is Patrick Cummings. Thank you so much for joining us this episode. I'm here by myself as I occasionally am to introduce the episode we have for you. We have as we've been doing since we've shifted our format. |
| 0:37.4 | It's giving me a really nice excuse to go back through our archives. We've been doing the show since, oh gosh, 2016, so we've got a lot of really |
| 0:45.8 | interesting, good conversations back in the archives that I know a lot of folks have other |
| 0:50.4 | not listened to it all or certainly I've forgotten about. |
| 0:54.0 | And this episode that we've got this week is one we had back in September of 2020. |
| 0:59.0 | And it was a follow-along conversation that we had trying to simplify nutrition. In fact it was our second |
| 1:04.8 | attempt really our second go-around at this conversation around simplifying |
| 1:09.3 | nutrition. The first one we had which I think we called simplifying nutrition was way way back in 2017. |
| 1:15.9 | And so we talk about in this episode the two things you need to understand before putting |
| 1:19.6 | a nutrition plan in place. |
| 1:21.5 | Those two things are what your specific goal is and Ben breaks |
| 1:24.7 | down three buckets that you can think about and then what your specific eating |
| 1:29.9 | style is and then towards the end Ben also gives us a breakdown of what a day of eating looks like for him. |
| 1:38.0 | So I'm excited to revisit this conversation with you real quick. If you want to get a question into a future episode, |
| 1:44.1 | I surely would love it. I love reading your questions. They definitely help us. Not only shape the |
| 1:48.4 | episodes we do that are specifically answering your questions, but they also help me shape generally what is on your mind. |
| 1:55.8 | So even if we don't get it your question and specifically I do read them all and I do appreciate them |
| 2:00.9 | and I do my best to make sure we are speaking to the things that are on your collective minds. |
| 2:07.0 | W.W.chasing excellence dot email is the best way to get a question in. |
| 2:13.8 | We send out an email on Saturdays with a link to a form. |
| 2:17.2 | You can submit as many questions as you'd like. |
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