Unleash Your Inner Champion: Chris Cavallini Reveals The Winning Formula For Fitness Success - Episode 8

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"Build a strong mind to live a strong life."

In this episode, we dive deep into the mindset and strategies that have propelled Chris Cavallini to become a leading authority in both the fitness and business worlds. With a previous career in the Navy, Chris knows what it takes to overcome obstacles and achieve success. He shares his secrets for building mental toughness, harnessing discipline, and staying motivated in the face of adversity. As the founder of Nutrition Solutions, Chris has built a thriving brand that has helped thousands of people transform their bodies and their lives. He shares his insights into the importance of nutrition, exercise, and consistency when it comes to achieving your fitness goals. Whether you're looking to improve your physique, start a business, or simply live a more fulfilling life, this episode is packed with actionable advice and inspiration to help you become the best version of yourself.

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www.nutritionsolutions.com

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Thebrandonthornhill (00:06.290)
Alright guys, welcome to the journey to win. Super excited to have our guests on today. If you're new, listen guys, don't forget to subscribe. You're going to want to subscribe to this channel. We bring constant value on this channel to you guys. So make sure you hit the subscribe button down below. On this podcast, we bring you guys high quality people who are winning big in their life. And they talk about the ups the downs, just what it takes to win not just short term but long term. And today we have Chris Cavallini who I've been following for a while. I'm really excited. You know, he's a former Navy veteran like myself.

He's an entrepreneur who's crushing it, by the way, in the entrepreneurship game. He's a philanthropist, a keynote speaker, big time social media influencer. He's a multi-time Forbes featured personality. He is the CEO and founder of Nutrition Solutions, which is a national lifestyle brand and a meal preparation company that reports over eight figures of annual revenue. Chris, man, I'm excited to have you on. Welcome to the podcast.

Thebrandonthornhill (01:02.874)
Awesome, man. Hey, I usually so I love to start off this podcast with a question. And that question is, what does it, what does winning mean to Chris Cavallini?

Chris (01:18.417)
needs to be defined. Individuals need to define that because success, winning, it's gonna look different to everybody in order to actually quantifiably win, you have to actually define what that looks like so you can have metrics in place to facilitate that result. For me, it's quite simple. I want to constantly be evolving my fitness, my mindset, my bank account, the impact that I'm making, but most importantly, the way that I define success and the way that I define winning

Chris (01:48.231)
bring people up with me, whether that's my team, whether that's my friends, or again, just the people who are following me on social media, listening to my podcast, coming and seeing me talk. At the end of the day, you can't bring the money with you when it's all said and done, but when we're gone, we do have the opportunity to leave legacy and the way that you will invariably, undoubtedly, unequivocally,

Thebrandonthornhill (02:29.886)
I love that Chris and I can say, you know, I've been following you for a while and I've watched you do that. Like you make your employees like they're working out, you know, they're doing cold ice bath. Well, okay. Well, you inspire them to do it. They're doing cold baths. Like that's really cool. So like maybe talk to some of the business owners or maybe the everyday person on here, you know, why should they take fitness serious? Why should they, you know, as a as an owner of a business?

Chris (02:37.757)
I wouldn't say I make them. I wouldn't say I make them. Some of them might say that. Yeah. Yeah.

Chris (03:02.701)
Yeah. So again, from what I've learned in the 40 years I've been on this planet is in order to live a strong life, you need to have a strong mind. Unfortunately, most people don't have a strong mind. The easiest and most efficient way to develop a strong mind is to build a strong body. And self-discipline is the key to all things success. So.

Chris (03:27.049)
as it relates to the investment that I make in my team, as far as paying them to work out, paying them for mental toughness and confidence training, which is the ice bath evolution. And just some of the different unconventional things that we do at Nutrition Solutions that are a staple in our company culture. I'm investing in the team because I want to help them.

be better. I want to help them be stronger. I want to help them develop their confidence. I want them to break limiting beliefs. I want them to be the type of people who can thrive under the most stressful conditions imaginable. So the workouts that I'm paying to paying them to do, you know, it's not a kickball game. It's, it's not, you know, basically going to a gym and walking on a treadmill for an hour. It is the most difficult, high intensity functional training that

Chris (04:18.041)
we can possibly do. I'm not making an investment in them to half-ass. I mean, it is very intense training. It is very difficult training by design. It is not just...

intended to help them improve on their physical fitness and help them become stronger, help them become fitter, et cetera. It's to help them evolve their mental fitness. We're in Florida, our company headquarters is in Tampa, Florida, and we had a workout this morning, about 90 degrees out there. Hot, it's humid, it's uncomfortable, it's difficult to breathe. It just adds a whole other layer of discomfort to the equation, and again, the more difficult things that we go through in life.

the easier the rest of life tends to become. I think most people's biggest problem is the fact they have not faced enough adversity in life. And when adversity shows up in their life, which it's only a matter of time before it does, or it does again, they fall apart. They do not know how to navigate adversity. And from my perspective, from my journey, I've learned that.

Adversity is completely and absolutely necessary for the optimization of humans development. So I want to, I want to give my team micro doses of adversity, right? Whether that's these brutally tough workouts, the ice bath, or, you know, any other, any other iteration that I can put them in an uncomfortable situation and basically help them train their minds and condition their resolve to become more resilient and learn to be comfortable in the most uncomfortable

of dynamics as a growing company. As you grow, at every stage, there's going to be problems. I mean, if you don't have problems, then your company likely isn't evolving and isn't moving forward. So.

Chris (06:05.053)
throughout the progression of nutrition solutions in my journey, I had all these problems and I was working very, very hard, thought I was doing all the right things. And as I got to a new level, each new level, I would have all these massive problems that would just come up seemingly. And at the time, earlier in my journey, I didn't recognize it as being, okay, this is what's supposed to happen. This is actually evidence that you are on the right track.

Chris (06:31.821)
And after going through a few just significant, we'll just call them all out crisis, things that happened that, you know, I wasn't sure that I would recover from. I always did. And not only did I always recover, we always ended up in a different place, a better place than we had ever been. We became more efficient, our company grew. People on the team stepped up because if...

you don't have a problem going on, or if there's not massive chaos, then there's not an opportunity to step up. There's not an opportunity to lead. And I just started to kind of look back at all those situations and realize, damn, like every single time we encountered significant adversity as a company and as a team.

It allowed us to enter a new territory and reach a new level that we've never been at before. And we actually added celebrated adversity to our core values. We had our core values established at the time and celebrated adversity was later added because of the new found positive perspective I had with adversity. And this is a really important point here because like most people.

when I started dealing with adversity in business initially, I didn't deal with it well. And I looked at it as, okay, I'm doing something wrong, or these people are doing something wrong, you know, did not take the proper level of ownership that one needs to as a leader, as a business owner, you know, as somebody who's trying to win. And the

The problem with that is the adversity is there. All right, so you have two options. You can complain about it, you can bitch about it, and you can have a poor attitude about it and literally exacerbate the existing issue and compound the adversity, or you could lean into it and look at it for what it is, which is an opportunity, an opportunity to grow, an opportunity to get better, an opportunity to get tougher, an opportunity to look at the people that you have on your team and determine who's really about it. And when you do that,

from that more empowering perspective, it doesn't hurt as bad. It doesn't break you down and crush your soul. And you know, obviously it allows you to handle whatever's going on a lot more productively.

Chris (08:55.925)
Oh yeah, of course. Legend.

Chris (09:00.097)
Yeah, I wish you were better. Yeah.

Chris (09:16.237)
And I appreciate you. I kind of went on a long winded rant there, but this is the thing that other business owners don't identify because when this is, I have conversations with people or they learn about this, a lot of people in corporate culture and just other businesses, they can't make the connection as to why I wouldn't, because it's significant. This morning we had like 33 people out there and I'm paying them. They're on the clock to train.

And a lot of people can't make the connection as to why I'm doing this. But the fitter you become, the more disciplined you become, the more value that you're going to be able to contribute, not just to the organization, but to the rest of the world. And again, we talked about legacy being important to me. Like I want to have the best team possible that is gonna have my back, that is gonna.

adhere to the core values and the mission of our company that is that are looking out for our clients. And this is what we do. We help people get in the best shape of their life, take all the stress out of the equation and basically help people become the healthiest, fittest, most dominant version of themselves. We're in the business of changing lives, not selling food. And this is not easy work. It is very difficult. You have to put a lot of pride, a lot of passion, the attention to detail that we have.

implemented in our brand is second to none, and that's something I'm very proud of. And the truth is, if we are not.

helping them condition the resolve and helping them become more physically fit. And again, other things that we pay them to do, we do, uh, personal development every single day, literally every single day. There's, there's personal development, uh, within nutrition solutions. We have speakers around, uh, around the buildings listening to it while they work, we'll do like a short podcast or, uh, some form of, uh, short form content in the morning as part of our, uh, morning muster. So we actually, you know, muster is so our morning muster,

Chris (11:11.239)
Basically start the day off with 90 seconds of gratitude and segue into a win. We'll share when winning is important. That's the first thing that I want people conscious of and focused on at the beginning of the day. We will share a client review, a transformation, put their client transformation on the screen and just help the team.

make the connection between the work they are doing every day and the impact that it's having on the outside world. And like, you know, at the end of that, go through the days because at the end of that, we'll watch either again, a short form YouTube video, some sort of personal development, listen to a short podcast, and then you know, we're now primed in a peak mental state to go attack the day from and this is an investment that I'm making in my team. So they are able to operate and execute at a much higher level. And I couldn't imagine

where I would be, where we would be as a company and just overall like what my team would look like if I didn't do this. And the other side is this, like I'll just be honest, like I wanna work around.

bunch of winners. I don't want to have a bunch of soft, weak, fat, gelatinous humans around me. One of our core values is lead by example. What type of example would we be setting if we didn't actually walk the walk, if we didn't actually do the things that we are telling our clients that we should do? Now, don't get me wrong, there are people who come to us that are out of shape, that are 40, 50, 100 pounds overweight, but they don't stay that way.

You know, we always joke around, it's a joke, but it's actually serious. Like it's impossible to work at Nutrition Solutions and not get in better shape. Even though there's only two workouts a week, it's just the environment and the energy and the atmosphere and the knowledge that they're consuming. Like it's impossible not to get in better shape, both physically, emotionally and.

you know, mentally. And yeah, it has a direct positive impact on the bottom line. I'd be lying if I told you it didn't.

Chris (13:43.174)
Yeah. Yeah. And it's an investment. Like it's an investment. But if you are not investing in your team, then you know, I don't know that what you will expect for the growth of your company for the future of the company. I mean, as a leader, I believe you have two responsibilities. That is it. Okay. There's a lot of line items that can fall under these two main things, but you have responsibility first and foremost to win. And secondly,

to make your team better. And if you are not making your team better, you are not a leader, you're a manager. And not a very good one, if I'm being completely honest.

Chris (14:29.377)
Yeah, we should have led with that, right?

Chris (14:42.944)
Yeah, haven't always been a winner.

Thebrandonthornhill (14:44.990)
Yeah, you know, so Todd, let's talk about that because you got arrested from from what I you could tell us, but I think it was like 17 times or something and then all the way to. Oh, really.

Chris (14:52.765)
No, no, no, brother, don't low ball me. I was arrested 17 times prior to my 18th birthday, several more times after that. But yeah, so I was arrested 17 times for my 18th birthday. I was in and out of foster homes, group homes, juvenile detention centers, jail cells, till I was 18. My mother had me at 16. Father took off when she was pregnant.

I was put in the care of the system almost immediately. I didn't have a stable upbringing. I didn't have a traditional support system. When you don't have a support system and you don't have a traditional upbringing, especially as a male and you don't have a father figure in your life, this has been shown to have a significantly harmful and detrimental impact on the cognitive development of a young boy. I mean, we are...

Chris (15:42.237)
significantly more likely to commit crime, to go to jail, to commit suicide, to become alcoholics, to become drug addicts, et cetera. So yeah, I mean, look, I can validate that all those statistics that you hear about what happens to young boys that don't grow up with father figures are all true. They're all true. And...

You know, it makes sense. It makes sense when you don't have a masculine figure in your life showing you the path, teaching you the things that you need to understand and learn as a man and teaching you values. So I was getting in trouble, I was all over the place, I did not act, so I was subjected to every kind of abuse imaginable. So naturally I developed issues, right? I didn't have confidence, I was very insecure, I was very scared, so.

The way that I basically showed that, the way that I dealt with that is by lashing out, by being angry, by getting in trouble, by doing really stupid things that I clearly shouldn't have been doing. So, you know, my senior in high school got to the point where...

the state of Massachusetts where I grew up. They basically got sick of seeing me in the courtroom all the time. Again, I was arrested 70 times for my 18th birthday. Eventually the state of Massachusetts made me an ultimatum. They said, okay, you're either gonna go to jail for seven months or you can join the military after you graduate high school. And I... I was arrested seven months after I graduated high school.

obviously selected to join the military. I wish I could say that it was my boyhood dream to serve my country honorably. And it was all I ever wanted to do since I could remember. This wasn't the case but the military, you know, didn't just change my life. It saved my life and set me on a positive trajectory that really helped me to begin the importance of environment and being around the right people and being in an atmosphere that

This kind of organically brings the best out of you. Atmosphere and around people that just being in that presence, you basically have to have to rise up to meet the standard.

Chris (17:53.473)
I was in for five years and I was a Navy diver. I was fortunate. I was a shitty student in high school just because I didn't like it and I didn't really try it and apply myself. But I started to read pretty young because at some point, maybe the sixth or seventh grade, I became conscious of the fact that people who were well-spoken

Chris (18:15.981)
got like people looked at them different and spoke about them different. And it just seemed to me that they were kind of held to a like a higher regard than other people. And as a very insecure person, I wanted to do anything I could to have people look at me a little more thoughtfully. And I, uh, I started to read and, and I would read the newspaper of all things, you know, as, as, as a very young kid, I'd read the newspaper. I had like six or seven comic books that I would read over and over and over.

over again and I'm 40 and again I haven't looked at a comic book since I was a kid. But back then the comic books weren't written like as if it was communicating to an eight year old or a nine year old. They were written in a pretty elaborate eloquent manner. So as I started to read I started to kind of.

Chris (19:07.253)
I mean, look, there's no secret. Like if you read, you're going to be smarter and sharper and more aware than people who are not. So that really kind of helped me develop a level of intellect, a level of intelligence. So I didn't really apply myself in high school, but did well enough on my ASVAB exam, which is the entrance exam for the military for your listeners who don't know, and was...

Chris (19:31.613)
scored high enough to be considered to go to Navy Dive School at the time. There was about a 70% attrition rate. And as a young kid with no discipline and a problem with authority, it was initially, it was a little bit of a struggle, but I got humbled very quickly and realized that I couldn't act the way that

was my natural way of acting if I wanted to be part of this community and I really wanted to be part of the community. I saw like when I came into the military boot camp, I'm not sure if when you know you were in a boot camp they did this but did they have this special programs PT in boot camp?

Thebrandonthornhill (20:10.686)
Yeah, yeah, every once in a while. What year were you in? What year did you start? 2004, so yeah, yep.

Chris (20:18.465)
So in bootcamp, you have the normal PT with your, what the hell do they call it? What do they call it in the military? It's not the platoon, but your, whatever, the group of people that you're with. I can't even remember what they refer to it as. But I remember in bootcamp when they had us schedule those of us who were going to SEAL training, SWIC, EOD, or dive school, we'd go to this special program PT. And I remember like,

Chris (20:47.777)
the rest of the people would just kind of like look at that like, wow, that's, you're doing that. I'm like, okay, so this must be significant. So I need to not fuck this up. And then I started to learn more about like the special programs communities. And it's just a different thing. It's a different thing than the normal military. And like, I very much like the sound of that. I very much like the idea of being part of this like elite fraternity and brotherhood. So, you know, I was I was committed to doing everything that I needed to do to

to get my shit together so I was able to become part of that community and you know, fortunately I did.

Thebrandonthornhill (21:21.186)
You actually have a couple of questions that before I do I want to, I never told this story before. It's funny. We're talking about bootcamp. When I was going through bootcamp 2004, you know, I was actually an ASVAB waiver by the way, you know, it's just funny, you know, cause I was a, I was like a 4.0 student, but I couldn't, I don't know. There was just whatever. When I took the test, I couldn't pass it. And so when I finished bootcamp, I went back and took a two week course and then crushed a test, right? And got into Buds. But one of it is, is when I was going through bootcamp, they did the

the volunteer, Hey, who wants to go be a seal? And I raised my hand and like, yeah, you can't be because your eyesight is not good enough. And your ASDAS score is not good enough. I'm like, what the recruiters freaking lied to me. Are you kidding me? You know? And so dude, I snuck in. They said, All right, who wants to be aircrew? And everybody was about to go. Because were you in an auditorium? Right? You were in an auditorium, probably like, yeah. And so they're like, all right, all the special programs, all the buds guys go over here, all the sweet guys go over here, and all the aircrew guys go over here. And so I went to the aircrew line.

Chris (22:08.738)
Yeah.

Thebrandonthornhill (22:17.294)
I didn't even know what it was. And so, and then we're all like marching in line and I like, as they break off, the Buds guys go to this pool, the Swit guys go over, I think to maybe the same pool, I can't remember, but then the Aircrew guys was one of the bigger one. And so I just walked over to the Buds and took the test. And dude, what's crazy is this is how I know that God exists because there was a guy who I was super close friends with. I'm not gonna say his name, but he, I was, I was.

Thebrandonthornhill (23:14.178)
go get eye surgery, come back, and we wanna see you come back in the program. So I had to go out to core school and be a corpsman for a couple of years and do that whole thing, which is a whole nother story of itself on how I actually got in. But that dude made it through, he became a SEAL. So had I not helped him out, like he never would have even, isn't that insane? But I wanna know, so you went from being super insecure, you're saying, which that's a self-image thing too.

Chris (23:28.025)
Hell yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's awesome.

Thebrandonthornhill (23:41.982)
Right? So how did you grow your self-image, your self-confidence over time to become a Navy diver, to become the guy you are today who's out there putting out videos, who's putting out content, who's running an eight figure business? Like that's incredible.

Chris (23:53.173)
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So obviously it's a constant work in progress. The journey continues to this day. You know, I put in so much work across all fronts, but it all started with building my physical body by becoming more comfortable in my own skin and working out and improving my body. opportunities just started.

opening for me. Like people who are in shape, like get that you just get looked at differently. Like when somebody walks in and is physically fit, the assumption is that this person is disciplined. This person is competent. This person is able to

stay committed and locked in on a process and get a certain result. Even if it's subconscious, this is just what people think. And if somebody walks in the room and they're fat and they're sloppy and they're disheveled, it's the opposite assumption. But the interesting thing about this is it's not really an assumption. Normally these things turn out to be true because your body is a reflection of your standards. And

A lot of people don't like to hear that, but it's the truth. Your body tells the world a story. What kind of story is completely up to you? And for me, it started in the gym. I started working out like once a week in the eighth grade. I would take a bus to another bus to a train. And I would take a bus to another bus to a train.

that would take me to a gym and then I would wait outside the back door and sneak in the back door when somebody would be coming out so I could get in and work out and I didn't really know what to do, but I would go in there and I would just watch some of the other people in there and I would start doing what they did. I would, I would do as they did. These guys were older. They were fit. I mean, obviously I wasn't looking at the fat dudes in there. I was looking at the guys who were in shape, the guys who like I looked up to and I started doing what they, what they did in eighth grade. I worked out maybe once a week and then once I got into high school, I had access to

to a weight room every day in the school that I went to. And I started training. And as I started to lift weights, I started to just feel better. I started to, like my mental health, again, I wasn't aware of, oh my God, my mental health is improving. Looking back on it, it's very obvious that that's what's happening. I started to meet.

Chris (26:24.161)
people in the gym that like I just kind of gelled with and people that, you know, pushed me to train harder because I was, I got pretty fit my freshman year, which kind of got me noticed by, you know, some of the upperclassmen. So I wouldn't say that like they were my my friends like outside of high school. And as when you're a freshman, you know, it is you get everybody's giving you shit and whatever. But I started cultivating relationships with

like some of the older varsity athletes that were in really good shape and they took a liking to me and just being around them, like I was just pushing myself and started to just feel better, started to develop confidence and literally to this day I still do that. Okay, when I wanna step things up in any realm of my life that is outside of fitness, I revert to fitness as the catalyst to give me the momentum that...

I will need to attack that new goal or execute on that new process. I mean, fitness is such an amazing catalyst for personal growth, because it requires discipline. It requires sacrifice. It requires you to be willing to push yourself past your limits. In order to make progress anyway, that's what you have to do. And the beautiful thing about that is throughout the course of time, provided you are consistent, which is the

thing most people fucking miss, which is why most people don't ever get results in anything, whether it's a fitness or something else, because you're not gonna get the results doing half the shit 50% of the time, right? Consistency is all of the time for a very long time, including weekends, at night, holidays, your birthday, and the days that you don't fucking feel like it, especially those days. But through fitness, you basically learn that process, the process of doing the work.

consistency, and what ends up materializing when those elements are present. And when you get that down, you can then redirect that process to any area of your life, your business, to your personal life, to any philanthropic endeavor. And really, fitness is just an amazing catalyst for personal growth, because that process is the same exact process that needs to be present to.

Chris (28:53.397)
Every time, every time, like to me, again, I don't want to sound arrogant here, but I don't understand how people could go on vacation, people who work out. How are you going to go on vacation? Not workout, eat like shit. Like this, this doesn't make sense to me. You go on vacation for what reason? To enjoy yourself to some degree, right? You do not.

feel better, you're not gonna enjoy yourself if you're off the path, if you're eating food that is going to make you lethargic and make you fatter and weaker. I wanna feel as good at all times, especially on a fucking vacation. And then when you have all the extra time and energy, like what else is there to do really? So yeah, like I... Yeah.

Thebrandonthornhill (29:34.814)
Yeah, but I have a question on that. So, cause that's very true. I mean, I, every time I've went on vacation and I work out, I feel great. If I'm not working out, I feel like garbage. So, but do you, do you drink at all? So, so maybe how do you, if you go on vacation, yes, I'll talk about that. So, I'm going to talk about that.

Chris (29:47.093)
Yeah, yeah, not heavily. Yeah, not heavily. I will actually, when I drink, I will drink heavily. But I don't drink often. But I have a rule, okay? At this stage, look, I mean, I used to, in my 20s I was in the club seven nights a week. I was in the club seven nights a week.

And in my early 30s up until I was like 34, 35, I mean, I used to, I was going out multiple times a week, drinking and partying in the club, bottle service, like not just like, you know, drink or two at the house or at dinner.

Chris (30:25.029)
you know, as you get older and your priorities evolve and you know, just you get different things going on, your energy is finite. And you know, obviously if I'm drinking all the time, I'm not going to have the same level of output. But when I do drink, I just, there's one rule that I have, I have to work out the next day.

No matter what, I don't care if I have to literally drag myself through the workout. I absolutely have to work out. That's the price of admission for me going out and drinking. And it's actually a good rule because not only am I going to get a workout in, but a lot of times a hangover is a byproduct of a lack of movement. And when you get the blood flow going and you get the endorphins and dopamine released,

all of a sudden you don't feel as hungover. Imagine that. It's when you're laying around on the couch, in your bed, in your own filth, in your own sweat, the toxins and booze and whatever shitty food you probably ate thinking that that's actually going to help mitigate symptoms of hangover. When in fact it does the opposite. This is when a hangover materializes. If you're just sitting there laying in your hangover, you can't expect to be anything but hungover. So I'm gonna get up and get some movement going and I'm gonna do everything I can to feel good. I mean, life is too short to...

Spends days laying in bed with a fucking hangover ridiculous

Thebrandonthornhill (31:44.270)
That's a great rule, man. I love that. I'm gonna start using that. So with social media, I got a question on weight loss and stuff, because I know that, and you talk a lot about this, with social media and the media and just all the different outlets having all this misinformation about nutrition and dieting, I mean, they used to have the food pyramid for God's sake. Like that was a thing, right? So where can people find like legit sources? Cause if I go on YouTube, I literally just did it right before this thing. And it said, I said, I said weight loss.

or how can I lose weight? Or literally put lose weight is what I put, lose weight in YouTube and a bunch of garbage comes up. The first thing it says, science is in. Exercise isn't the best way to lose weight. The second one is doctors say it's time to stop counting calories. Obviously it's not the whole picture. So, I'm gonna go ahead and start counting calories. I'm gonna start with a few. I'm gonna start with a few calories.

Chris (32:31.441)
So look, let me just, did you say that exercise is not the best way to lose weight?

Thebrandonthornhill (32:36.906)
Well, yeah, but we know exercise is not the best way to lose weight, nutrition, and exercise is going to be the best way. But my question is, is there's a lot of clickbait. There's a lot of, you know, hooks. What, how can you help people see through that and what can they do to lose weight?

Chris (32:50.229)
Yeah. Man, this is a great question. I'm really happy that you asked it. So this is something that is not often thought about by people. Like most people, when they get to a point where they look in the mirror and they're just completely and utterly disgusted at the reflection staring back at them, they just want to lose weight, right? They just want to lose weight and they want...

to do it as quickly as possible. So what they end up doing is they attempt to eat as little as possible. And you can do that for a short period of time and you can lose a bunch of weight. And unfortunately, when you go that route.

Not only are you setting yourself up for failure because it is simply not sustainable, it's impossible to be in a calorie deficit for as long as possible. It's impossible to eat a little bit of food from the same two sources for, this varies person to person, but for the most part, we all have known somebody who's lost a shit ton of weight and then gained it all back and then some. Okay, this is the trademark of.

that methodology of eating, eating as little as possible or going keto, right? When most people go keto, what they actually do is they just cut out carbs and try to eat as little as possible. They don't actually understand the ketogenic.

guidelines, they do not supplement the carbohydrates that they're not taking in with the appropriate fat sources so their body has sufficient levels of energy to perform, to function optimally, etc. So, to answer this question directly, people need to understand that there's a difference between what works and what works best, and you have to define what your goal is. And this is a question we get all the time at Nutrition Solutions, our client success team, they're all NASM certified.

Chris (34:38.669)
weight loss specialist, fitness and nutrition specialist, and behavioral change specialist. So they have training in this, and they're able to kind of help clients understand that as it relates to your fitness journey. It's not about eating as little as possible, but eating better, not eating less. And what you wanna do is you wanna set yourself up on a path that makes sustainability.

as easy as possible. And the only fucking way you will ever be able to get in shape and stay in shape is by meal prepping. If you do not have meals prepared going into a day, you're, what are you gonna do? Are you gonna cook three, four times a day? No, right? You're gonna order Uber Eats, you're gonna go to the fucking drive-thru, you're gonna reach for the nearest convenience and we all know that the nearest convenience is not.

Chris (35:30.373)
fuel that is going to move us closer to our fitness goals as a work. So if people wanna know what to do, you actually have to put in a little time, like the food that we put in our body will either make our life better or make our life worse. Your, the fuel that you are putting in your body is literally going to be like rocket fuel that.

helps you improve your mental health, it gives you more energy, that helps you become more physically fit, it gives you the confidence to attack other goals in your life. Look, when you eat better, you're gonna make more money as well. This is a fact. But most people are eating food that's not actually food, right? They're eating highly processed things that are made in a laboratory filled with a bunch of ingredients that you can't even pronounce, let alone tell me what that actually is or what it does to you over the long term.

And it's a lack of awareness because people think, oh, if I go to this place and I buy this, it must be okay. You go to the grocery store and it's on the shelf, it must be okay. And unfortunately, this is not really working out well for us, three quarters of the population. Look around, three quarters of the population are overweight, 40% are obese. In 20 years from now, that will likely be hovering around 85%.

Chris (36:51.169)
People just need to start making better choices. And honestly, it's about making progress, OK? Focus on progress, not perfection. And to answer this directly and move on to the next thing, I'm not going to sit here in a four to five minute answer. I can't give you like an overview of nutrition 101. But what I can tell you is to not necessarily, if you're at the beginning of your journey, don't focus on what you should be eating, OK? Focus on what not to eat. Cut out the fast food.

No soda, right? Stop ordering takeout. If it comes out of a vending machine, use common fucking sense. If you use common sense, this is an amazing place to start. Drink more water, right? Cut out all the bullshit I just said. No sugary snacks, no cupcakes and Twinkies. Get all that shit out of your house. Look, I love sweets as much as the next person. Like I'm disciplined enough to know that I'm not disciplined enough to keep that shit in my house without it getting eaten.

don't have it in your house, oh, I have kids. You shouldn't be feeding your fucking kids that either, dickhead. Like people just, again, you have to realize the reason you are where you are today is the decisions that you have made to this point. So in order to produce different outcomes, you absolutely and utterly have to start taking different action. And it starts with you setting yourself up to win. Set yourself up to succeed. Get all the shit out of your house. Cut out all the processed food, all the junk.

all the soda, any liquid sugary calories, you simply do not need it. They're not adding value to your life. And when you start with that, now you have to actually start thinking mindfully, oh no, maybe I should be eating fruit instead of the cookies. Yeah, you absolutely should be doing that. But if you wanna focus on literally, most people wanna look better naked.

We all wanna be healthier and all that. But if you were to ask most people, they're not gonna lead with health, unless they're older. Most people wanna look incredible naked. And I think that that's great because with that comes so many other positive things. I don't think you have to count calories. The truth is I've never counted calories in my entire life. And this is something that's contested often when I speak on it because people can't fathom from their paradigm, like, oh, how can you not count calories? It's because

I understand nutrition. I focus on protein intake. The only macronutrient that I track is protein. I focus on getting one gram of quality protein per pound of lean body mass every single day. And if you don't know what your lean body mass is, I'll be honest, I don't know what mine is either. I just say that because that's the appropriate terminology. One pound or one gram.

per pound of whatever your goal weight is, whatever your ideal weight is. Focus on getting one gram of protein per pound of your goal weight. And the easiest, most efficient, most sustainable way to do that is to get 70% of that intake from high quality proteins like grass-fed beef, like.

bison, you know, whatever poultry, make sure it's antibiotic and hormone free. Venison and elk are not very common proteins, but these are the cleanest protein super fruits on the planet. And the other 30% you want to get from a high quality protein supplement. Boom. And if you do that with that formula 70 30, it makes hitting that threshold almost effortless, bro. Because if you tell people like, Hey, you got to eat that, like all food. I mean, that's a, that's a ton of food.

for the normal person. And again, people say, oh, well, you should get the majority of your, yeah, that is, you are getting the majority from food. But if you want to optimize your health, optimize performance, have more energy, increase your mental health and look amazing naked, track protein. And when you do track protein and follow a high protein diet, it's funny because everything else just seemingly falls into place.

Chris (41:11.839)
Yeah, if you're not taking enough protein, okay?

and you are cutting your calories, you'll lose weight, right? And you'll feel good about that fact. You'll look at the scale and you're like, oh, it's moving, yay, because look, the key to happiness in life is progress, right? As we make progress, we're gonna feel good and we're gonna feel accomplished. So when we see that scale moving, intuitively people are like, oh yeah, I'm doing the right shit. But what most people fail to realize is if you're carrying around 20 to 80 pounds of body fat that you need to lose, if you lose that fat, it is not magically going to be replaced

with lean muscle. So if you lose a bunch of fat, and you are not consuming enough protein, and you're doing what most people do when they go on this crash course, diet and exercise routine, which consists of eating as little as possible and doing as much cardio as possible, you're gonna end up with a skinny, fat soft body, which is disgusting. Nobody wants that. Like nobody fucking wants that. And you know, I guess it's an argument can be made that it's better than being just a fat

weak slob, but this is not what you intend. Like when you set out to do this, you wanna be happy with what you see when you look in the mirror. And people don't recognize that the key to fat loss is to actually build muscle. The more lean muscle your body has, the more calories your body is gonna burn throughout the 24 hour period. Talk about like having a fast metabolism and a slow metabolism. People don't.

just magically have a fast metabolism or a slow metabolism, your metabolism is a byproduct of your lifestyle decisions. So focus on protein, focus on lifting weights, not doing cardio and respect the process. Things take time. But if you actually are serious and you're actually about it, you can change your fucking life in six weeks. You can change your entire physical body in six weeks. If you look on our website, NutritionSolutions.com,

And again, I'm not trying to pitch the company, but this is one of the things that we're known for. We have thousands of extraordinary transformations that we've helped our clients achieve, and a significant majority of them happen in just six weeks. I mean, we're talking game change, like holy shit, that cannot be the same person, let alone happen over the course of 42 days. If you have terrible eating habits and you're not on the path and you just make some simple adjustments like,

It's actually pretty fascinating how quickly it can happen, how quickly your body will adjust to your new lifestyle.

Thebrandonthornhill (43:44.330)
Yeah, Chris, I mean, listen, for all the listeners, I wouldn't bring you one if I didn't believe in you, the company that you have, like, like, I believe in that. So you should be pitching that I think to everybody on here because I believe in it. So maybe tell them one after you got out of the Navy, how did you get started on your entrepreneurship journey? How did you launch your nutrition company? And what makes you different than everybody else?

Chris (44:06.357)
Yes, when I got out of the Navy, unfortunately, I, you know, got out at 23. Uh, probably looking back on it. I mean, everything happened the way that it's supposed to, but I didn't have anything lined up. I decided to get out even though I was, uh, at the time they were offering, uh, divers like.

Chris (44:27.129)
I think it was like $60,000 reenlistment bonus, bro, which 60 grand at the time was like 10 million now, right? Like it was an incredible, it was, it was a significant amount of money.

Chris (44:38.949)
But I didn't want to leave where I was. I very much liked the identity that I began to create for myself in Jacksonville, Florida, where I was living at the time. I had some good friends and I just liked who I was starting to become. And I decided to get out because had I reenlisted, I would have had to relocate. And I just thought that, you know, I could figure things out with the new person that I was. And I lost basically all my structure overnight. You know, I went from having a mission, having a purpose, knowing where to be, when to be there, what to be wearing.

having great people around me all the time, to having none of that. And for somebody who came up the way that I did, the regression happened. I mean, it happened very quickly. I was working in a strip club.

Chris (45:22.769)
not the best environment for somebody like me. And, you know, didn't like that, didn't like that line of work. So I was drinking at work, which, you know, I was getting in fights with the customers, messing with the girls and just, you know, it's just a different lifestyle, bro. You're in the club till three o'clock in the morning, you get home, maybe you get to bed at 4.30 and after you bang one of the chicks. And this is just the constant drama. It was just, I felt out of alignment with,

Chris (45:51.153)
who it is I was attempting to become. And again, this is going to sound ridiculous, but I ended up quitting the strip club to become a drug dealer. And this is when my life really started to change. And it changed, obviously not for the better, but this was an important part of my story. You know, six, seven years, I lived this very fast life and I was selling anabolic steroids. I think this is important to point out. I wasn't selling meth to elementary school kids or anything like that. Still illegal, still, you know, unethical, not making any excuses or trying to minimize what I

Chris (46:21.101)
But I lived that life for a while and didn't have any worry in the world because I was young and stupid and making money and spending the money quicker than I was making it. But got to a point where some of the other drug dealers that I had in my circle and network started to get in trouble, get sent to prison. Everybody was snitching on everybody. I didn't like that. I didn't like the fact that I was in this.

Chris (46:49.709)
this world and had people around me that were just willing to destroy somebody else's life because they weren't man enough to be held accountable for their own actions. And I know this is going to sound ridiculous to your listeners, but I like honor has always been very important to me, even when I was a drug dealer, as crazy as that sounds.

I've never fucked anybody over. I've never sold anybody anything that was fake. I never took advantage of somebody who didn't understand whatever and like overcharged them. I never did any of these things. Honor was always important to me. And I realized that I was in a world where there was no honor. And again, I know this sounds silly, but it was disgusting to me.

Like I wasn't aware that this is how this thing, because some of these people like at one point in time, like these are like my friends that I had in my home and people that again, like I thought like had my back and such and I knew that it was only a matter of time. I knew that I was being investigated and I was, I mean there was a joint task force with the Jacksonville.

sheriffs, narcotics unit and the DEA that were investigating me and, you know, making a long story short, I knew that I needed to get out. I knew I needed to change my life. And I started to just dedicate myself to personal development and started to read everything and anything that I could get my hands on that was consistent with becoming a better human being. And as I started to evolve my mindset, I started to think differently. And when you start to think differently, you start to act differently. We start to act differently.

to kind of curate itself in a way that it's never looked before. And good things started to happen. I started my company, you know, not a great story there. It was just an opportunity presented itself. I mean, what it was then, what it is now that I didn't have a website, didn't have insurance, didn't have, you know, the ability to take credit cards. It was, it was a very ghetto operation, if I'm being honest. You know, I remember I didn't have like a retail store or a location. I was,

Chris (48:59.197)
using a local catering company to prepare X amount of meals for me and eight or nine people that I knew and in the beginning, we would meet up in this parking lot at a Subaru old Subaru outback that you know that hatchback and we basically load the food in the hatchback, put bags of ice on top of it meet in a parking lot in a shopping center centrally located to where like all eight or nine people that were getting meals at the time.

Lived and they would come and pick up their meals like that. It was not sexy. It was very humble beginnings, but it Was an honest living and I felt really good about that and you know, obviously being somebody who's always

Chris (49:42.305)
concerned with improving, this is what I did. I improved and I learned and I grew. And eventually my past caught up with me after I'd left that life three years after I'd exited, started my company. I come home from work one day in Tampa, I'd moved out of Jacksonville where I wanted to leave that city, that old version of me in that city and go to a new environment and just.

Chris (50:11.233)
just be around different energy and kind of reinvent myself and I did. And you know, but karma is karma doesn't forget. So I came home one day and there was two detectives from the Tampa Police Department Narcotics Unit that were serving a warrant. And they took me to jail, basically, you know, brought me in. I was transferred up to Jacksonville. They wanted me to snitch. They wanted me to cooperate. I basically told them with

as respectfully as I could that this is not something that I could even consider and entertain. I am where I am today, which again, it wasn't amazing, but it was certainly better than where I was, where I used to be. I said I took responsibility over my past.

because that was the only thing that would allow me to create a better future. So I was like, respectfully, this is what I'm doing now. I do not have these contacts anymore. I'm willing to go through whatever process. I'm okay with potentially losing it all, if that's what it takes. The thought of prison did not, you know, I wish I could say, oh, that was scary. Like for me, it honestly wasn't. The thought of going to prison, because that's what was going to happen.

Right? Like they, my bail was half a million dollars. They didn't wanna negotiate. Normally when you are involved in a criminal proceeding of sorts, they, you know, you negotiate, your lawyers negotiate with the prosecutor to avoid a trial and all that, in exchange for a lighter sentence, but they did not wanna negotiate. They gave a firm deal of two years in prison, which not a lot of time.

But at the time, you know, had I went to prison, I would have lost everything that I worked for. That, you know, is what really compelled me to fight. And I had a small team at the time. This was 2015, I had a small team at the time. And these are people who were heavily.

Chris (52:15.457)
I mean, they relied on our company and they relied on me to produce income, to take care of their family, to support themselves and to pay their bills. And these are people who are loyal to me. And I, uh, I didn't want to just give up. I didn't want to just say, okay, let's, you know, whatever, let's, let's not go to let, let's not fight it and whatever. Because when you fight it, you run the risk of, I mean, I was guilty. There was no question. Let's just put that out there. I was guilty. They had me dead to rights multiple. I was set up multiple times in video audio.

Like you name the tech, they had me on it. I was dead to rights. But my lawyer was telling me, they're like, the audio on this is questionable, we can do da da da. I'm like, dude, listen, I am not trying to go in front of a court and insult the court's intelligence by attempting to act like this wasn't me and that I'm not really a drug dealer. I'm like, I did this for many years. They just happened to have me on video and audio, three out of the hundreds, if not thousands of transactions.

I said, honestly, I was like, I've changed my life. I've become a different person. I'm a better person. I want to lead with that. Like, I want to lead with that. And this is not standard practice as it relates to the, you know, the criminal, anytime you're in a situation like that where you're going through the judicial system, it was literally the opposite of what my lawyers wanted to do. They advised me against it, but they also respected the fact that

Chris (53:43.149)
this is something that I wanted to do. And it was something I had to do. It wasn't something I wanted. I felt it was something I absolutely and utterly had to do. And I did. And the universe looked out for me, man. I went in there that day. I pleaded guilty. Went to the judge, pleaded guilty, and had about, there was a hundred people that showed up that day for my sentencing. And it was pretty special walking up and seeing all those people there. And I had a lot of people there to speak on my behalf.

and to talk about the impact that I've had in their life, whether it was employees of mine, friends of mine. At the time I was doing a lot of work with the Wounded Warrior Project. There was a couple of the warriors that showed up and the judge had also familiarized herself with my mitigation packet, which was a bunch of like character letters from people that knew me, could speak highly on my behalf. And I was very fortunate to have a judge that actually read that stuff and actually looked at it.

Chris (54:41.471)
And the universe and she both, they were very fair to me and she made the right decision because the purpose of prison is rehabilitation. And she in open court addressed me to in front of everybody, in front of my attorneys, in front of the opposing attorneys, in front of everybody that was in that room that day and basically said that, look, you know, the purpose of prison is rehabilitation.

Chris (55:03.861)
In my opinion, I've been on this bench a long time, I've never seen anybody do what you've done. That you have successfully rehabilitated yourself, and it's for that reason. I don't see any reason to send you to prison. And they gave me the leanest sentence that they could, considering the several felonies that I was in court for that day. And I was given felony probation, and I...

Chris (55:27.745)
Completed that and you know, basically walked out of the courtroom that day a different person. I could literally here we are it's two thousand and twenty three I Could still be in prison had had I got convicted of all of the things that they charged me for I mean Comprehensively it was like up to 12 years or some nutty amount and I never heard I'd never heard it like that when I went in there that day they started reading all my charges and the subsequent punishable sentence like

this, three years, this, four years. And I'd never heard it laid out like that. And I was like, holy shit. So I could technically still be in prison had things went differently. Because I committed those crimes, there's no question, but I just think this is a good testament. If you do the right thing, if you work really hard, it doesn't matter what has happened in the past. It doesn't matter how much you have fucked up over and over and over again. All that matters, all that will ever matter is what you do next. And when...

you're willing to work hard to change your life and also willing to accept personal responsibility over your past. This is when you are able to curate a completely new reality and move your life forward and do things that you likely didn't think were possible. I think the key to...

Chris (56:45.545)
evolution as a human being is personal responsibility. Obviously, hard work is great, but that's not enough. You have to be willing to take personal responsibility over all the good, all the bad, and anything that might happen to fall in between.

Chris (57:20.237)
Yeah, yeah, yeah. We, I mean, we shipped all 50 states and, you know, this is, look, I will never talk poorly about another company. The thing that I always like to, like when I'm talking about my company, I like to tell people like, try other companies and then try us.

Chris (57:42.537)
I prefer that actually. I prefer that you try the other top companies before you try us. Because then I don't have to answer this question. It will become very clear very fucking quickly while we're the best. We're the best because there's nobody out there that is willing to put in the level of work that we put in to being a successful company in this space. Because again, we're not focused on

having the best food, although we do, we're focused on changing the most lives. And when that is the mission and that is the focus, all these other things like having fantastic customer service, having an amazing product, having the cutting edge of nutrition and flavor profile and things like filet mignon, like grass-fed elk, bison, venison, liver, bone marrow, these are, other companies don't do this.

Chris (58:41.478)
They don't do this because like I'm trying to get my clients the best results. And as I learn more about this world, which is, I mean, there's always new information and new research and I'm trying new stuff. And that's the other thing, like there might not be a ton of research, but that doesn't mean something doesn't work, right? People go, where's the studies and the double blind.

It's like, listen, at one point of human history, there was no peer-reviewed studies that conclusively determined that exercise and eating good were actually things that would have a positive impact in your life. So as I learn, I wanna offer these things, I wanna give my clients access to the same things that I'm doing. I'm 40 years old, I'm in the best shape of my life, physically and mentally, and financially and spiritually, like across the board, and I honestly believe that

Chris (59:32.169)
It's a result of the lifestyle decisions that I'm making. And there's no better way to radically change the circumstances of your life than to start making better decisions with the food that you're putting in your body every day and just going into your body. So, I mean, having high standards is imperative for winning in life.

But if there's one thing that you need to be very picky and very selfish and very particular about and have extremely high standards with, it needs to be the things that you're putting into your body. You know, you are in fact putting it in your body and the truth is the food we eat impacts every area of our being. Not just the way we look, right? It's not about having a six pack and being strong under a bar, it's about living a strong fucking life. And having...

being rewarded with the currency of life, which is more energy. Most people, they're tired all the time. They wake up exhausted. They drag themselves through the fucking day. You know, they have this afternoon crash and they think it's normal. They think it's normal because it's all they've ever known. It's actually not normal. I don't wake up tired. I don't wake up tired and it doesn't matter how much I sleep. I wake up and I feel good because my body has what it needs. So if I don't...

Chris (01:00:46.093)
get an amazing night of sleep, I am giving my body the nourishment and the micronutrients it needs to optimize every single process. So if I don't get a lot of sleep, my body's gonna tap into these other resources that it has available to it. And I know it can be overwhelming to hear someone talk like that because most people have not examined it from that perspective, but you know, you are what you eat, right? It's actually probably more accurate to say you are what you eat eats.

Which is the important which is why it's important as it relates to just give a plug to grass-fed Beef and grass-fed steak as it relates to steak You should be eating more of it, but it absolutely needs to be grass-fed quick way to help people understand the difference It's not marketing. It's not a buzzword. This is a real thing grass-fed cattle

whether we're talking about cattle, bison, venison, elk, they're eating the diet that nature intended, okay? If we're talking about cattle that's grain fed, they're eating the equivalent of McDonald's. This is the best way. They're eating the equivalent of McDonald's. They're not getting sunlight. They are kept in very close proximity with other animals that are sick. They're...

Like you can taste the difference when you eat a grass fed steak that's lean, that's full of micronutrients. And when you eat a grain fed steak, it's just kind of more mushy and you know, not as lean, but the quickest way that you can actually start waking up every day and just being on a completely different level of consciousness is to start making better decisions with the food that you're putting in your body. And again, it's not about being perfect. It's about making progress.

Cut out the shit that we talked about, the fast food, the snacks, the process bullshit, the cupcakes, the cookies. You do not need these things. These things do not add any value. They do the opposite. No soda. Start with one thing. Whatever that one thing is, do that. And then you're gonna get a little, you're gonna make some progress. Then do something else. If you try to do everything all at once, it'd be overwhelming, right? Which is why the, I always say progress, not perfection.

you're gonna wanna do that next thing because when you do that one thing, let's say you cut out soda. Let's say you're still eating fucking fast food, you cut out soda, in and of itself, you will lose weight, you will start to feel better. You're not gonna feel amazing, but you will feel better. And then this is gonna compel you to want more of that shit. And then maybe you get rid of the fast food. In order to get rid of the fast food, you have to replace it with something. And hopefully that's something positive, then you get rid of the snacks, and all of a sudden, you start to crave that.

feeling of betterment, you start to like the way you look and you want more of that shit. You start to like the way you feel, you want more of that shit, you like the way you look, you like the way you feel. Now you become more confident. You become more, not just more confident in your body, but more confident to try to work hard and shoot for that promotion. You become more confident to go ask that girl out that you've had a crush on for a year, but you've been too much of a coward to make the move. Confidence is essential for success. Like,

All the successful people I know are competent. You have to be competent. And if you're not competent with, you know, how you look in your own skin, you're not gonna be competent in other areas of your life as well. It's just not possible.

Thebrandonthornhill (01:03:54.758)
Amen brother. Amen to that. You know guys, I'm going to put his Instagram down there. I'm going to put his YouTube. I'm going to put his website to his meal prep company so that you guys can go buy some, some meal prep food. Any final words, Chris, you know, I appreciate your time, man. Any final words you want to give?

Chris (01:04:11.617)
Yeah, yeah, look, if you want to make the process of getting in the best shape of your life, a hell of a lot easier, you invest in a meal prep company. And if you're going to invest in a meal prep company, do not invest in nutrition solutions first. Use another company for a week or two and then use us because then you will have a higher level of appreciation for what it is we do. I don't think people recognize that if you have a refrigerator,

that at all times was fully stocked of high protein nutrient dense meals that are ready to eat in under two minutes. How much easier it would be to get your body and your health where it is that you want it to be. It's about setting yourself up to succeed. And one of my favorite quotes by Sun Tzu from the art of war is every battle is won before it is fought. I have that quote in my gym and it talks about

Chris (01:05:09.173)
it's alluding to the importance of being prepared. You're not gonna show up to the battle without training. You're not gonna show up to the battle without whatever weapon of choice. It's just the same thing when you go into a day and you go into attack the day, you cannot expect just going into the day and haphazardly eat food on the fly and actually have it be contributing to the betterment of your life. This has to be something that you make.

your number one priority. Your health is more important than your family, it's more important than your job. It's more important to all the shit that you're.

prioritizing over it doesn't make sense. Because without your health, none of those other things mean a fucking thing, you know, you have a responsibility to take care of your family to provide for them to protect them, you know, as a man, I'm assuming most of your listeners are men. And you can sit here and think that like you're doing that. But the fact of the matter is if if you're weak, if you're fat, if you're low on energy, you know, if you don't have confidence,

If you're not even willing to step forward when stakes are low, how in the fuck can you responsibly think that you'll be capable of stepping forward when stakes are high? You have to take care of your health, be in the gym as much as possible, and make better decisions with the food that you're putting in your body. And it doesn't matter if you use a meal prep company, if you use Nutrition Solutions, but do.

prioritize meal prepping so every day you can show up into the day prepared and make decisions that are going to help you move your life forward as opposed to doing the opposite. You know we the other thing about this is when we eat right we're either going to make ourselves look younger or do the opposite when you see people that are

42 or 43 and they look like they're in their mid fucking 50s or you see people that are in their mid 50s and you could have easily mistaken them for being 40. This is a byproduct of the lifestyle decisions they're making, their daily habits, their healthy habits. And I can't stress this enough, if you've never ate well before for any period of time, you just, you can't know.

But I'm so passionate about this because not only have I lived it, I see this every day with our clients and their stories. And it's like, fuck yeah. Because again, it's not about having a six pack or a strong selfie game on Instagram. It's about living a strong life. And again, the way we live a strong life is to have a strong mind. To develop a strong mind, we have to first build a strong body.

Chris (01:07:40.782)
Thank you, brother.

Chris (01:07:54.245)
Thank you, man. I appreciate it. Thank you so much.