The Lazy Person's Guide to Better Nutrition: No Restrictions Required
The Consistency Project
EC Synkowski
4.9 • 562 Ratings
🗓️ 5 March 2025
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
We're discussing the transformative #800gChallenge, which encourages you to eat more fruits and vegetables without restrictive rules.
You'll gain insights into how this simple approach can lead to increased energy, improved workout performance, and overall better health.
After you listen, you'll discover that focusing on adding nutritious foods rather than eliminating them can simplify your journey to better nutrition.
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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, writer, and podcaster. Find him on social media.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome back to the consistency project podcast. |
| 0:18.3 | Every week here on the show, EC and I aim to simplify the science of nutrition, |
| 0:23.4 | health, and fitness, cutting through the noise to focus on the principles and practices that |
| 0:28.0 | will help you perform better, feel better, and live better. Thank you so very much for tuning |
| 0:33.2 | into the show. I am here with just a very quick introduction. What we've got for you this week is a |
| 0:40.1 | conversation that EC had recently with the host of the Get Healthy Tampa podcast. Her name is Dr. |
| 0:46.4 | Carey Reller. She's a board certified family and obesity medicine doctor. Together, the two of them |
| 0:52.4 | talk about the importance of consistency over perfection and |
| 0:55.8 | healthy eating habits, how the 800 gram challenge simplifies nutrition by focusing on |
| 1:00.4 | adding fruits and vegetables without restrictions, the role of protein in weight management, |
| 1:05.1 | and why most people don't need extremely high protein intake, as well as a bunch of other |
| 1:10.2 | topics. I think you're going to like this. |
| 1:12.5 | This is a great grab bag of EC wisdom. If you want to hear more from Dr. Kerry, do check out the |
| 1:18.4 | Get Healthy Tampa podcast wherever you are listening to this. Thank you again for being here |
| 1:23.3 | without any further ado. Here is the conversation. So one thing that you do, you know, |
| 1:29.0 | promote and have created, and I don't know, I know partially the origin, so I want you to tell |
| 1:33.2 | the listeners, but, you know, what is this 800 gram challenge that you speak of? It's, you know, |
| 1:38.6 | seems simple, but it's very powerful. So had you come up with it, what's it based on, and what's |
| 1:44.1 | the most surprising feedback that you've received about it based on, and what's the most surprising |
| 1:44.7 | feedback that you've received about it? Yeah, so it was actually during, I was finishing |
| 1:49.4 | up my master's and I came across a study that was looking at fruit and vegetable consumption |
| 1:53.9 | relative to health outcome. So they were thinking, okay, how many fruits and vegetables do people |
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