Best nutrition coaching | CBG nutrition has changed the game for me!
rodrick lopez*Disclaimer: CBG nutrition pays me to promote and use their program.
Since I started CrossFit in 2012 I had always been on and off macros.
I would crush it for a few months and then completely fall off.
This was how it went:
- Start weighing and measuring
- Stay consistent and don't eat anything that can't be tracked
- Avoid going out with friends/family
- Avoid my moms home cooked meals
- Avoid going to places that didnt have macros available
Eventually I'd get over it and wanted to go to a family gathering and not be so strict.
I would get lazy for a few weeks and the process would restart.
Over and over I went for about a decade.
It was hard NOT to feel like a failure every time I stopped counting.
I was frustrated but I didn't know any other approach.
Fast forward to NOW and I couldn't be more stoked with CBG.
It has completely shifted my approach to nutrition and it's been a game changer.
I don't ever worry about counting or measuring.
I can easily take trips, go out with friends and family, and even after an off meal/day I can get right back on the horse.
Messing up a meal or two doesn't feel like failing because it's so easy to adjust the next few meals to get back on track.
I also am way more thoughtful on the types of food I'm eating.
With macros I just cared about hitting my macros. Which I do think inhibited my progress quite I bit.
I was missing some really important micronutrients since all I cared about was macros.
Starting with CBG:
What I love about starting with CBG is they made everything simple from the start.
I filled out a few pages of questions going over: what I do everyday, my goals, and my current habits.
From there they gave me blueprints with times, types of food, and everything I needed to crush my goals.
It was all there FOR me.
I did NOT have to do any of the work. No more thought - just action required.
I also had access to a coach where I could ask questions, get adjustments, ideas, and even modify my blueprint if I had a competition - or bigger training day coming up.
It was so nice to have someone IN my corner to make sure I was successful.
More than a year later I don't really ask my coach for much. I've been given the TOOLS I need to succeed - it's really up to ME now to crush my goals.
If I ever need them - they are there.
I'm glad they taught me along the way so I could take ownership for myself.
I recently wrote my top few things I've learned from CBG in a pdf AND I include what a typical day of eating looked like leading up to my last competition.
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6 comments
I used to hate the idea of tracking macros, but I had big goals. I didn’t really understand food and the fuel I needed to succeed. So, I tried tracking. I ended up learning to like it BUT because I am a bit OCD I was very strict with it and it ended up becoming soooooo time consuming. It took over my life tbh. When I switched over to CBG I’m not going to lie, it was tough at first. Now that I understand food and how much I need things are so much more simple. Not only that but I get to go out to dinner with friends and be okay with it. It’s less time consuming and I am much more aware of what portions look like, which makes things less stressful. The relationship I have with food now is a much happier and healthier one.
The team at CBG are an incredible group of people, their kindness, understanding and knowledge is amazing.
I was on CBG for 6 months, and the experience was life changing. Learned what my body needed and started fueling it properly. Soon after that, unexpected PRs came and my performance in workouts was much better. Recovery also improved and definitely learned better habits thanks to the awesome work of coach Gab!
Coach Liz with CBG completely changed my fitness and perspective around food as fuel. I found myself at a plateau with my fitness in CrossFit, including struggling with recovery after workouts. I signed up for 16 weeks with body recomposition as my primary goal, and within that time have PR’d bench, overhead press, and front squat. I’ve been able to Rx more WODs and my biggest surprise is the recovery – workouts that would leave me sore for days don’t since I’ve started working with CBG. I’m in the best shape of my life at 40 and owe a lot of it to Coach Liz. I’ve already signed up for the rest of the year to meet more of my fitness goals. Highly recommend CGB!!
I started with the first 16 weeks and worked with Coach Paige. She understood a lot of the things I was dealing with, and worked with me on my “blueprints” adjusting them as we worked together. I was doing Oly lifting at the time, and just hit my first 100kg power snatch. The level of thought and education that goes into coming up with a personalized program for you was definitely something I will never regret. It has changed my relationship.with food all together.