Do Diets Matter? Does X Coach Nutrition?
Does Nutrition Matter? Does The X Coach Nutrition?
Today's question is, How important is nutrition? And, do you offer guidance on nutrition at The X?
Yes, we do. Nutrition is very important. It's essential to sustainability and longevity.
At X, we're all about the end game. For us, our focus is on lifetime changes. Six-week, crazy before and after transformations from six-week challenges are cool, but our focus is really on six months, six years, and beyond. We have clients who have been working with The X for nearly 15 years now, and they have been able to sustain their results and progress. That's really our goal — permanent change. That isn’t possible if nutrition isn't a huge factor.
Nutrition has to be done the right way. If you're following gimmicky diets or arbitrary restrictions and rules, it isn't going to produce a sustainable outcome. Your lifestyle has to work for you; it has to work with your family, function, and environment. Dependence on exercise, iit works at all, which is highly unlikely; it isn't going to work for very long. The way you eat has to work with your lifestyle, and your lifestyle has to work with the way that you want to eat. Together, they have to function to produce and maintain whatever results you want.
There are some fundamental truths about nutrition that people have to understand if they want to truly make lifelong changes that matter.
1.Calorie Intake Determines Weight
The first fundamental truth is that how much you eat, in terms of calories, determines how much you weigh on the scale. If you want to lose weight, you have to be in a calorie deficit. It's just math. We teach this to our members using a budget analogy: you're not rewarded with weight loss due to making good diet decisions. The "magical weight loss fairies" don't reduce the weight on the scale because you’ve followed the rules. You're not punished with weight gain when you break diet rules. If you eat something off-limits, like a little bread, the diet fairies don't punish you by making you gain fat. It's just a simple math game in terms of budgeting, and that's what controls the scale.
2.Food Macros Dictate Body Composition
The second fundamental truth is that the quantities of your food, in terms of your macros – proteins, carbs, and fat – determine what your body composition is going to be. If you've ever built muscle mass or seen anyone build muscle mass, it's from increasing protein intake, adding resistance training, or both. You cannot build muscle mass or achieve that tight, toned body without eating enough protein. It's just impossible.
3. Quality of Food Influences Health
The third fundamental truth is that the quality of your food affects your overall health and how you feel. Relying on ultra-processed foods like prepackaged meals, diet bars, and weight loss shakes might help you lose weight short term. But for overall health and to feel good long term, it's unlikely to be effective. You might not maintain those positive weight loss changes, which can create harder problems in the future.
4.Diets Aim to Control Caloric Intake
The fourth fundamental truth is that all diets try to control how much you eat with different strategies. They will work or won’t work based on that control since they are only attempting to create a calorie deficit.
5.Sustainability is Key
The fifth fundamental truth is that sustainability is the most critical factor for all diets, and practicality is the most crucial factor for sustainability. The best diet in the world is worthless if it isn't practical and sustainable. But any practical, sustainable diet will eventually produce the desired results on a long enough timeline.
The X Approach
At X, we don't do "diets" or "rules." We teach our principles, which are fundamental truths or beliefs that guide our actions. These principles give us a new way to think, and that's what makes our nutrition program distinctly and proudly different. We're not just telling people what to do or handing out restrictive diet rules. Everyone knows they should eat more vegetables, lean proteins, and fewer sweets, treats, or unhealthy drinks. That's not what we do.
When asked what we do, my response is always that “we teach a new way to think.”
Our principles and coaching method gives you a new way to think about your habits and choices, especially those around food and your goals. We use our principles to create systems for decision-making that fit our lives and desired lifestyles, allowing us to enjoy our lives at all times while making progress or maintaining goals.
Systems are predetermined methods to achieve results—thinking ahead and making decisions in advance based on life's scenarios. So, we're always prepared and feel in control.
Some examples include going to a restaurant, knowing your choices and why, or facing a holiday party full of tempting food. Or being busy with work or kids, traveling, and having limited choices. What decisions can you make to sustain progress toward your goals? Being prepared means navigating scenarios easily, comfortably, and ultimately happily. The systems we build guide you.
Diets and rules create a focus on procedure, not result. You eat off-diet—a sandwich or some ice cream—and think you failed, leading to a binge. But when there are no arbitrary rules, life is easier. Navigating situations with a guide, not rules, means indulging without guilt.
We're all about systems and principles, not arbitrary diets.
I'll detail these principles and systems, teaching how we apply them in future episodes. Stick around! If you have questions about our nutrition approach, reach out anytime. I'll see you next week!
