Eat To Perform Podcast

Paul answers questions on when to schedule your high days, the difference between AP and PR, and why mentality is just as important as weight loss. 

Paul answers your questions on exercise in each stage, metabolism, and the importance of mindset change for long term success.

If you have been around Eat To Perform for sometime you know that building a runway is important. The key is keeping calories higher but staying relatively weight stable. In this podcast we walk you through what that looks like and some tips that coaches use to keep things in line along the way (without drastically pulling down your plan).

When you deal with literally 1000's of people at a time there are a lot of great examples you come across.  For this episode Susan and Paul share a few of those stories.

What we do in this episode is walk through how different sports require different ideas in terms of performance nutrition but all are similar. More is typically better.  How that "more" gets used is what we talk about.

We decided on a recommendation that it was time to deep dive performance nutrition. If the goal is to match your work activities with your nutrition, this should be enlightening on a lot of levels.

The two most important times as you go into a fat loss cycle are the weeks going in and the weeks coming out. Becky and I walk you through that in this podcast.  We also had a lot of great discussion about the future of Eat To Perform and where we hope to grow in the future.

If we know that diet adherence is one of the biggest reasons people fail then you have to create an environment on how to achieve the most success. The best way to do that is to plan to have success by taking a proactive approach. We also do a short Q&A at the end.

Part of learning what is right is about making a few mistakes along the way. In this episode Susan and I talk about that and what we learned and then we walk through some one off scenarios that people might find interesting. For 99% of people simply normalizing calories fixes a lot of problems. We thought it would be fun to walk you through the other 1%, what we did in those scenarios and why.

This is Part 2 of this 3 part series. In the first part we walked you through why 1200 calories is more of the problem than the solution. In this one we walk you through why most people failing is happening as a result of program issues (not always the fault of the client). I think once people hear EXACTLY how much thought went into how we set up our cycles it will really illustrated the differenc...

This is the first of what is a three episode series. If you can listen to them in order I think it will make more sense. A big part of this podcast was devoted to the fact that many science friendly programs blame clients when their program doesn't work. The suggestion being that if 1200 is prescribed and the person has a couple of sticks of sugar free gum that's the problem.  We walk you thr...

This one is a little different than our noob podcast so we get a lot more advanced questions. There were so many people in this one that we couldn't do a topic. We went Q&A from bell to wire. A lot of great stuff.

Let's face it, when you are at a hotel, there is no scale and you are eating at restaurants it can cause you to panic. So we asked ETP coach Jeff Raiders what he does and he brought up a lot of great ideas to help in these moments. We also had a short Q&A featuring why you should consider eating right before you go to bed.

So many great questions and answers came out of this live coaching call with new Eat To Perform clients. We covered everything from hormone replacement to menopause/andropause and everything in between. Even if you aren't new this is great info and I think you will like it.

Shortly after Oprah buys a sizable stake in Weight Watchers they change their name, Susan and I examine why. But let's not kid ourselves, this episode is about NOOM. The science they are ignoring and how they are treating dieting like a commodity and tactics they are using to acquire clients. It's not all bad but the part that is good is just a version of pieces we have known for a long time. The...

Early fitness really starts with Jack Lalane, his show and his television appearances. Then came Richard Simmons, jogging and the birth of less is more. Here is what we know now in retrospect.

Susan and I were talking the other day and thought it might be interesting to talk about how we got here with dieting. First up is Weight Watchers, the early days. The problems they were trying to solve, their evolution and what we know about that experiment. No single company has been scrutinized the way Weight Watchers has, here is what we know.

Ok, now that the secret is out that it's not about macros it's about calorie average both up and down people often ask me, which foods they should add back as food starts to come back. Surprisingly for some (including me, I talk about it in the podcast) Whole Grains is a great option.  Maybe most importantly Susan walks you through why having a PRE biotic to go with your PRO biotic is a game...

I was talking to a relatively new friend and he mentioned that he had done SIX min cuts in about a four month span. Which is not how you do mini cuts. So we devoted this podcast to mini cuts, the very rare use case they make sense but also the COST of making that choice (which is the part my friend above isn't considering).

I never know how these are going to turn out but in the moment this podcast felt amazing. So many good questions. One thing that I think happens a lot when you have been doing macros/nutrition coaching is that it's sometimes difficult to reflect on what it was like in the very beginning.  So if you are new, confused and a little overwhelmed. This should help. It won't cook your chicken for yo...

 I think this one came out great. What we go into are the condition that make you crave hyper palatable foods (for some people it's nuts) and what to do to stay ahead of it and take back the power.

LPH stands for (Lifetime Power Hour) this is a podcast we do monthly for our lifetime clients where we delve into advanced topics. In this one we talked about the value of fats going up when calories are higher for endurance athletes and people that spend hours working out. In the second piece I walk people through an advanced Reverse Dieting scenario where the client will likely land at the same...

This is really an advanced discussion so if you are new to Eat To Perform some of what I am going to talk about you won't have experienced yet. That said, it's natural as calories are coming back to be scared. After all, you just worked hard and ate less for a while but what we know beyond a shadow of a doubt is that the faster the calories can come back the better it is for your metabolism to ret...

This is the last and shortest in the series. We walk you through what normal calories look like and build in some ideas related to age. If that sounds optional you need to understand that reaching your big health and even physique goals will be compromised if you get this part wrong.

In this episode Paul walks you through his diet history, what good things he picked up along the way and a lot of the bad that was unnecessary. Susan then walks you through the science of why it is all important. This is the second in a 3 part series that build off of each other.