Dr. Layne Norton
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But please keep in mind where this fits in the overall hierarchy of things.
Like this is a very small piece of a puzzle compared to sleep, proper nutrition, exercise.
And I think there can be so much stuff floating around in the fitness-osphere.
Is that a way of saying it?
That you and I as having the background, we can pretty easily detangle like what the kind of hierarchy of stuff is, like where the most important stuff is.
But I think for the average person, they hear these things and they don't really know how to slot those things into order.
And I have found so many people like really have an issue of paralysis by analysis of I don't know where to start, so I'm just not going to start.
And so a lot of what I do with my coaching, and less so now, I do less one-on-one coaching now.
I have a team of people who work for me, is really just trying to like get people out of their own way in terms of just saying like, hey, you don't have to be perfect.
We just need to get you to start doing stuff.
And yeah, you're going to screw up.
You're going to make mistakes.
But we are going to learn from those mistakes.
We are going to see where your stumbling blocks are, and we're going to help remove those barriers together.
To you being able to be consistent because at the end of the day, really, that is the big – like the biggest lever you have is consistency with nutrition and training.
And we were talking yesterday on the phone and I think a really good visual example was given by a guy on social media named Ben Carpenter who's a dietician.
And he had a – he had two bowls of marbles.
One was I think colored blue and one was colored green.
And he said if the blue bowl – I might mix up the colors.
But if the blue bowl represents like highly processed junk food and the green bowl represents good, whole, single-ingredient foods, if somebody's diet is the bowl of all junk food and we take one marble from the bowl of quote-unquote clean, good foods and put it in the other bowl –