Hello and welcome to the Consistency Project podcast. I'm Patrick Cummings here, as always with

EC Sankowski. Every week here on the show, we aim to simplify the principles and practices of

nutrition, health and fitness. Thank you so much for tuning into the show. Hello, EC. How are you?

Ready. How are you doing? Ready to simplify. I guess. I'm going to have to be ready. We are going to talk about the three pillars method today. We're going to get really specific. We're not going to talk around it at all. We're going to talk about the three pillars method. Obviously something we've talked about a number of times before. Let's do a quick overview. What is the three pillars method? Perhaps if somebody out there is new, they just found you, they just found this podcast.

Let's tell them what the three pillars method is to begin.

Yeah, it's how I coach nutrition.

I have my clients focus on three targets in their diet, quality, how many quality foods

they have by looking at fruits and veggies, two, protein, and three calories.

So again, the three pillars method is about getting adequate quality, protein, and calories right in the diet. Now, you don't start by focusing on all three of those aspects at once. It really is a stepwise progression, and I think we're going to come back to that a little bit later. But ultimately, it's how I get clients, whether or not they're listening over the podcast or in the Three Pillars Method app or one-on-one clients to this personalized,

sustainable, and evidence-based plan to improve their weight, health, body composition, or fitness, and it's without the junk science, without the dogma, and without the gimmicks that

really saturate social media.

And this is not where you necessarily started, but maybe it might make sense to give folks a sense of the trajectory of like, here's what I was doing when I first started in this world of nutrition.

Here's where and why and how it's developed into what is currently the

Three Pillars method.

Yeah, I mean, the 800 gram challenge, which is the first aspect of it, certainly was when

I kind of started.

It was some of my initial message in nutrition.

It's definitely been refined over the years.

I kind of have been using it loosely, but certainly got it

very codified, I guess, around 2023. But how did it come to be? Yeah, I mean, we haven't talked about

them as much recently on the podcast, but my main message in nutrition, I used to say, are these 10

principles of nutrition. And the reason why I like that as kind of my main message is

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