Nutrition should be simple enough to live with.
I believe good nutrition should support your training, your health and your everyday life. It doesn’t need to be perfect, restrictive or complicated.
What does that look like in practice?
Most of the time, the basics work: enough protein, plenty of vegetables and fruit, sensible portions, foods you enjoy, and choices that help you feel satisfied and perform well.
The goal isn’t to eat “perfectly.” It’s to make better choices more often.
Bodies change. So do goals.
I haven’t always looked the way I do now, and my goals haven’t always been the same either.
Nutrition has looked different for me at different stages of my life. That is one of the reasons I don’t believe there is one “right” way to eat, or one type of body you need to have to belong in a gym.
I’m much more interested in small adjustments you can actually maintain than in completely changing the way you eat. Sometimes improving a meal is simply adding more protein, choosing a more filling option or making an everyday product work a little harder for you.
A typical adjustment might look like this:
Someone comes to me eating yoghurt with granola for breakfast, a light lunch, fruit in the afternoon and then arriving at dinner absolutely starving.
I’m not rebuilding their entire diet.
We might add more protein to breakfast, reduce the amount of granola, make lunch more substantial, and pair the afternoon fruit with something like cottage cheese, protein yoghurt or an egg.
Same person. Mostly the same foods.
Just a few changes that make the day work better.
That’s often all a nutrition plan needs.
