CrossFit South Bend

In this video we sit down with Matt to chat about his experience with our one-on-one nutrition coaching program. Matt’s story is unique for a number of reasons.

-He was already lean and fit when we started working together
-He’s a busy financial advisor who has to eat out at restaurants for work a lot
-He was looking to improve his athletic performance,
-He mainly wanted to learn the tools and develop the habits necessary to eat healthy long-term

In the video Matt tells us about:
-how he actually SAVED money eating real whole food despite people thinking eating healthy is expensive
-how he gained more control over cravings and sugar swings with the program
-how things like apples and 70% chocolate actually tasted super sweet after eliminating processed foods
-how he learned the tools necessary to eat healthy for the rest of his life.

We’re super-proud of all your progress Matt! Keep up the great work!

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Transcript:

– Hey guys, Robby here from CSFB Nutrition at Crossfit South Bend, and today I am here with Matt who finished up a few months of nutrition coaching not too long ago. Matt, thank you so much for joining us.

– Thanks for having me.

– So, Matt tell us a little about what eating for you was like before we started working together.

– Yeah, I ate just about anything that I saw. I didn’t have a lot of discipline in what I was doing, I think that’s really what kinda pushed me towards this is I knew that at certain point, you reach a stage in life where you can actually feel that that’s not a healthy thing to be doing, but that’s how I was all my life, I just ate whatever I wanted to in the moment and, you know, just start seeing the physical effects, so I mean you name it, Doritos were one of

– Yeah. my weaknesses, I like sweets, you know, whatever it is, I just ate it.

– So, in your mind, you know, you already, you know, you already were and you still are very lean and fit guy, but you had goals for performance. Tell us a bit about kind of what was the main impetus to start with this.

– Yeah, well I think it was that thing you always tell yourself that you can still be the athlete you used to be, and just decided I was gonna try and start working out more, and just wasn’t feeling the results, and I was talking with some of the coaches about it, it’s like, I’m doing this, I’m doing this, I feel like I’m doing the right things but I’m not seeing results and somebody mentioned, you know, hey, have you looked at your diet, and I thought about it, and came and saw you, and yeah, that definitely was a big part of it.

– So, tell us a bit about the journey, you know, month one we were kinda transitioning to the Whole30, then we did the Whole30, and then we after reintroduced, tell us about what that experience was like for you.

– Oh, and remember with mine we had to delay it so we actually

– Right, yeah. had the two month intro, so that took a long time, and I think at one point I just said I’m just ready to start this thing, I can’t warm up anymore

– Yeah, lets just do it. but it was, it was a big change trying to find, you know, ingredients that I just wasn’t used to using.

– Right. They weren’t things I disliked it’s just, you know we were talking about before it just takes the time to get those things together and prepare ’em, and make something happen, but that was a learning experience for me, but it was a good learning experience.

– True, good. So, we were just talking about this earlier, you know, we might even do a video on it in the future, so you’re a financial advisor over at Edward Jones. Tell people a little bit about, you know, what this was like cost wise, you know people have this persistent myth about food being, healthy food being super expensive, and cooking at home. What are your thoughts on that having experienced it?

– Well, I think you can spend as much on the Whole30 as you wanna spend

– Yeah. on it, and if you’re gonna try and eat out a lot it’s gonna rack up the bills, but I was surprised at how inexpensive it can be if you really want to. Simple ingredients, I mean you can get a bag of flash frozen vegetables for a dollar, you can get chicken breast for a, you know, reasonable price, and you can make a full meal that really fills you out of that, but yeah, I think that when people do say that it’s too expensive, you gotta look at what they’re actually spend their money on,

– Right. cuz there are some great foods out there that aren’t that expensive, but I think the difference is, it takes time, they’re just not convenient foods necessarily. Now, if you wanna do Whole30 and you want it be convenient you’re gonna spend a lot of money. You wanna take the time and do it right, you can do it for a reasonable price, no question.

– Absolutely. So, one of the things we always like to talk about with people that Whole30 emphasizes this idea of like non-scale victories, so obviously you’re at a good body composition to begin with, things changed positively for you, but you were already basically at a good place. Did you notice anything with sleep, or energy, or mood, or cravings, or performance at the gym, or anything like that?

– Yeah, the biggest thing were the, it evened out a lot of the swings, you know the sugar swings where you’re starving, you have that craving, you wanna grab something to, you know, fulfill that, and then, you know, an hour later you’re looking at the fridge, you’re looking into the pantry, that type of thing, so I definitely saw much more evening out of those, and didn’t feel the drop, and that’s what I didn’t like, when you feel the drop, you just feel like, man I gotta get a pick me up, and amazing how things that I never would have thought as sweet, like an apple, tasted so sweet, first time afterwards I tried a 70% chocolate,

– Yeah. and I thought this is gross it’s so sweet, so I would say that was the biggest change for me, and it definitely saw some great results from it. A lot of things in your body that seem to waiver up and down, on the Whole30 they really were evened out quite a bit.

– Awesome. So, the last thing we like to ask people is, you know, if you could talk to someone, you know, Matt a few months ago, or someone in a similar position, or you know, one of the things I remember we talked about was, you know, as part of your job you’ve got a lot of professional lunches, you know, talking to someone who is in a similar scenario, is like, can I do it, can I not? What would you say to someone who’s maybe in a similar situation and isn’t sure whether they could do something like this?

– I mean there’s no question, it’s difficult, especially if you’re on the go lunches, but for me it was really a questions of, and I talked to you about this early on, was the question do I wanna learn how to eat right going forward?

– Right. The Whole30 is a temporary time. I think you can get through

– Absolutely. 30 days of just about anything.

– Yeah.

– Can I sustain Whole30 for six months? Absolutely not.

– Right, not me neither. But, at least now, what I’ve taken from this is a wonderful education that, you know, whether I’m, you know, doing a lunch with a wholesale, or something like that, I know which options on the menu are gonna make me feel better, and which ones are gonna make me feel worse. Where before, I just ate what I craved, and always felt bad afterwards, so I would say from that you can get a great education from this, and really help change your choices going forward, and it’s worth it.

– Yep, yep, absolutely.

– 30 days of sacrifice and I get a lifetime education, that’s a good deal.

– Yeah, yeah, learning the right tools to actually sustain it going forward. Well, I gotta say on my end, I’m super proud of the progress you made, and the effort you put in, you did a fantastic job, and yeah, I appreciate you coming out to tell your story.

– Well, I appreciate it and anybody watching this who’s thinking about the coaching’s just fantastic, and does a great job

– Thank you. walking you through it. There’s no way you can do it alone. If you can, hat’s off but good coaching to through the program, so I appreciate it.

– Yeah, thank you very much. Alright guys, thank you so much for tuning in. We’ll see you next time.