Ditch All or Nothing Nutrition: A Nutrition Journey - #452

<div> <p>Niki talks to <a href= "https://barbell-logic.com/team/brittany-snyder/">Brittany Snyder</a>, a Professional Barbell Coach, <a href= "https://youtu.be/d6fRzB-Ufds">nutrition coach</a>, and the Director of Nutrition at Barbell Logic. Brittany shares her journey of how she ditched all or nothing nutrition, shoved shame to the side, gave the fundamentals a chance, and finally created a sense of control with her nutrition.</p> <h3>All or Nothing Nutrition...Generally Leads to Nothing</h3> <p>Avoid fat. Carbs are evil. Only eat meat. No, avoid all meat and meat products. You should be fasting. You should be eating small meals throughout the day.</p> <p>Cut it out. If any of the aforementioned approaches work for you, that is awesome. For most of us, extremes don't work (at least not for long).</p> <p>We're talking about making sustainable nutrition habits that last for the rest of our life. We're talking about walking around feeling and looking better, being healthier, and building the virtue that voluntary hardship brings.</p> <p>Voluntary hardship, though, isn't about the the extreme white knuckle 3-week diet plan. It's about taking up the challenges that come with moving toward our goals.</p> <h3>Give the Fundamentals a Chance</h3> <p>Not every diet is right for every person. Like many people program hop from lifting program to lifting program, too many people bounce from all or nothing nutrition approach to extreme diet.</p> <p>Furthermore, people tend to know what foods are unhealthy and what are healthy. While there's disagreement, and people avoid certain foods for a variety of reasons, good, sustainable diets will involve building habits that last, move you closer to your goals, and have you burning more calories than you consume.</p> <p>Identify areas that you can most easily change to create the biggest results. That first means identifying what you're baseline is.</p> <p>For Brittany, she realized she was consuming about 800 calories after dinner every night. Her first step was to reduce that to 50