The importance of health is nothing new. However, as individuals keep chasing time and try to get things done in a fast-paced world - health becomes a much lower priority. It's mostly something to set aside until our body says otherwise. Although this is mostly true for most people, many still want to balance nutrition and productivity.

Nate Palmer, coach and the best selling author of the book Million Dollar Body Method – talks about these areas. Specifically, he joins the podcast to talk about how you can embrace efficiency with the right focus, training, and nutrition. And essentially taking your fitness to the next level.

Nutrition, Fitness, and Productivity

Often, people think of nutrition in one of two different ways. It's either, "What do I want to eat right now? Or how do I lose weight?" However, these things are disparate entities, and it would be better to have them combined like, "What should I eat, feel the way I want and execute on the things that need to get done?" Because changing that question can change how you view nutrition and just kind of the world around you. For example, macronutrients proteins, fats, and carbs are all different levers. They're all different ways of communicating with your body. And once you know, what each of them does, it will help you with the mental acuity of sitting down and doing that deep work that needs to be done. 

Scarcity and Maintenance

When we focus on energy, health and weight loss come, but if we focus on weight loss, we lose the energy and put ourselves in this stagnant place. We deprive ourselves, and then we inevitably backslide. There's a reason that there's a 95% recidivism rate in weight loss, which means that 95% of people who lose weight gain it back, and then someone has gained more for good measure. It is because when you're in scarcity, when you're always deprived, it becomes a mental roadblock, and you're never going to escape that. Like maintenance is sustaining stuff, and it's the most important because if you can't sustain it, then why even do it in the first place? If everything you're putting on yourself is like "can't", "won't", "don't", and "off-limits", then you're going to get stuck in this negative cycle. Because if you have a scarcity mindset, then it's hard to live a life of abundance. But if you have an abundant mindset, where you can eat whatever you want to, then it's also a different mentality. It's just shifting your vision to make those decisions based on what you want and not necessarily what you're hungry for in the moment.

Good Alternatives

The number one thing is to understand your proclivity. It's like deciding to choose something or do something. And once you take it away and make it a little bit harder to access, then sometimes, something like that can be a big change rather than having something like out on the counter. And if you can set yourself up for success by separating yourself from that, you can create that self-confidence. Like you are mentally tough enough to keep yourself from doing what you want at the moment. And this snowballs into a positive mental state about food without having to deprive yourself. But one thing when it comes to those moments is being able to delay that by planning. Having a plan to get in that moment can make you enjoy those things guilt-free.

Training and Nutrition

People need to start considering that training and nutrition are as important to our success as personal development, reading, meditation, and other things. Because health is at the baseline, it's like the building blocks. So, make sure that your fitness and nutrition are solid and in place, even if they're both a little...