SUGAR COATED LIES

Perfectly Unfinished Conversations | It's Good Enough, Let's Go!

In Iron Lab’s Perfectly Unfinished Conversations second episode, hosts Coach Jo and Coach Kim tackle the topic of habits that are no longer working for them. Amidst all the diet dogma floating around the internet, they address commonly-held beliefs and habits that aren’t serving the purposes we want them to. They break down why those habits don’t work and then discuss what does work, and things that we should consider replacing the old habits with.

Coach Kim and Coach Jo list habits we are very fond of because of routine or comfort that nonetheless don’t serve our fitness or health goals. Habits like drive-through food, skipping breakfast and even lunch, not getting enough protein in our diets, inconsistency in our eating, and demonizing food groups instead of understanding the needs of our bodies. They approach these habits from experience, from having done and tried every one of them along their journeys, and having discovered how little the habits contribute to their wellness and goals. In talking about what habits to switch to instead, they focus on what works for the health and strength of our bodies, exploring protein levels, the benefits of sleep, regular eating, and how our bodies function without proper nutrition, debunking common diet myths along the way.

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• Course: Metabolic Blueprint

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Transcript

Coach Jo: [00:00:08] Welcome to Perfectly Unfinished Conversations, the Iron Lab podcast with Coach Jo.

Coach Kim: [00:00:13] And Coach Kim.

Coach Jo: [00:00:15] Where you ride shotgun with us as we have raw, real, unfiltered and unfinished conversations about trying to eat, sleep, train, and live with some integrity in a messy, imperfect life.

Coach Kim: [00:00:27] We're all about creating a strong support system, taking radical personal responsibility, having fun, and being authentic. And one of the most common themes you're going to find in this podcast is the idea that we create positive momentum in our life by doing what we call B minus work.

Coach Jo: [00:00:45] We are making gains and getting ahead and loving life without self-sabotaging our goals by striving for perfection. We get it done by moving ahead...

Coach Kim: [00:00:55] ... before we're ready...

Coach Jo: [00:00:56] ... when we aren't feeling like it...

Coach Kim: [00:00:58] ... and without hesitation.

Coach Jo: [00:01:00] Be sure to subscribe now on Apple or Spotify so you don't miss a single episode. It's good enough. Let's go.

Coach Kim: [00:01:10] Here we are, episode two of the Iron Lab podcast.

Coach Jo: [00:01:15] Perfectly Unfinished Conversations. Thank you for joining us again.

Coach Kim: [00:01:19] Yeah, today we've got sugar-coated lies. These are the nutrition habits that just aren't working for us.

Coach Jo: [00:01:27] So in this podcast today, Kim and I sat down, we were brainstorming, we were thinking like, what are all of the diet dogma lies that are floating around the internet or things that people think are working, but it's literally just not working for us. That was kind of the premise of this podcast.

Coach Kim: [00:01:43] I always say, well, I recently I've been saying to my clients, like, we are fighting so hard to keep some of these habits, you know, like we just want to, we just want to fight for what we like. And the simple fact of the matter is, is that you're fighting to keep things that aren't working.

Coach Jo: [00:02:01] Exactly. Boom. So a couple of examples that we just decided to, you know, point form right out, one of them being the high carb, high fat, and the perfect example of this is literally anything drive-through.

Coach Kim: [00:02:16] Literally, literally.

Coach Jo: [00:02:17] Literally anything drive-through.

Coach Kim: [00:02:20] Your breakfast wrap, your chicken sandwich. Yeah, all of it.

Coach Jo: [00:02:25] And a lot of that is because we want ease and we know the route or we've built the habit. If I leave five minutes early, I have enough time to turn right and get through the drive-through and get back on track, on the road, on time to my destination.

Coach Kim: [00:02:38] Well, and it's also a happy place, you know, like our routines, the routines you have are because they feel good to you. And so if your routine includes a double double and a breakfast wrap or two, that's, you like it. And so it's going to be awfully hard to break that habit until you can come up with a new habit to replace it.

Coach Jo: [00:03:03] Exactly. And that's just, you know, the law of habits. You know, James Carr with Atomic Habits, he has a--

Coach Kim: [00:03:09] -- Clear, Clear.

Coach Jo: [00:03:10] Sorry, James Clear. My fault. He's got a brilliant book. And if you have not read it, I guarantee you will just leave that so mind blown because it's our situations, it's our environments, it's, you know, the cue, the reward. And like Kim said, the reward is you just want to feel good and you have to learn to short-circuit that thought in order to choose a new habit to become a new version of yourself. Yeah, and high carb, high fat is, it's just empty crap calories that's not going to serve you.

Coach Kim: [00:03:40] It's double the fuel. So high carb, high fat. When you look at the fact that carbs are a fuel and fat is a fuel, now you got high carbs, high fat, which are double the fuel, which is high energy density. And I don't mean energy like physical energy density. I'm talking like--

Coach Jo: [00:03:57] -- too much gas in the tank.

Coach Kim: [00:03:58] Too, yeah. And so remember that, you know, high carb, high fat are all the things we love. Pizza, ice cream, chips and dip, guac and tortilla chips.

Coach Jo: [00:04:09] Like fresh-baked chocolate chip cookies out of the oven.

Coach Kim: [00:04:12] Yeah. That's Jo's favorite.

Coach Jo: [00:04:14] It is. I love 'em.

Coach Kim: [00:04:16] I like tortilla chips and guacamole. Well, pretty much anything like straight-up habits that don't work for me. Like if I am ra...