29. #29: EC Synkowski - Optimize Me Nutrition

On Episode 29, we have the privilege of speaking with EC Synkowski. EC is a Certified Nutrition Specialist, Licensed Dietician, and she just so happens to be a CrossFit Level 4 certified trainer. Widely know by her Instagram following, and thousands of other athletes for her nutritional guidance. Over the past four years, she has grown her own brand Optimize Me Nutrition, which includes the popular 800gram Challenge. Anthony and her get into what nutrition is as a whole as it relates to the quality of our food/nutrients, supplementation, the spin cycle of the nutrition world, and much much more.

Important Points:

1:00 - Per usual we get to hear a little bit about EC and what makes her tick. Hr initial interest in fitness and nutrition came from a taking to biological life science. While simultaneously finding herself active in sports, she found CrossFit in early 2006 and was immediately hooked. Shortly there after she joined CrossFit’s seminar staff, which travels the world teaching the founding principles of the CrossFit methodology.

3:00 - 800 gram diet, ver heard of it? Founded by EC with the premise of eating 800 grams of fruits and vegetables a day. This is used as a way to measure the actual quality in your diet and learn the fundamental truths in nutrition as we remove ourselves from these spin diets.

7:00 - 900 gyms and 15,000 people have done the 800 gram challenge. A lot of user questions happen when they’re going through it, rather prior, so what she tells them, “If you would describe this as a fruit or a vegetable to a child, then it fits in this challenge.”

11:00 - Micromanaging can be pointless because it is becoming more and more known that there is not as big as a difference between calories (think white rice vs brown rice).

14:00 - If you struggle with your surroundings, create boundaries around meals that are autonomous. And to survive shared meals practice moderation.

18:00 - Compare nutrition to finance. If you count your budget you know where you are going to be at for that day. Same thing with looking ahead with food. What nutrients are you getting for that day?

23:00 - Counting macros are actually more towards to the “I’ve tried everything” end of the spectrum.

26:00 - Why are we trying to get into nutrition when you just want shortcuts and quick fixes? You have to evaluate what energy you have to put into the goals you want.

31:00 - When people talk about weight loss, they really mean fat loss.

37:00 - EC does a lot of research and personal studies and because of that a lot of the numbers used in her programs come form her own practice, and what she can sustain.

49:00 - What capacity does your body have for supplementations?

55:00 - You have to play the long game and make sustainable choices, otherwise you are playing yourself.

1:00:00 - “I sell challenges so I have to make sure the principles are in place.” This is not The Biggest Loser.

📲 Connect with EC on ALL the things:

EC’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/optimizemenutrition/?hl=en

EC’s Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-consistency-project/id1515808276

Optimize Me Nutrition: https://optimizemenutrition.com/

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