Low energy by 3 PM. Sleep that doesn't fix it. Recovery that takes days. Weight that won't move. Most people treat those as four separate problems. They usually come from the same place, your daily inputs. Food front and center, along with when you eat it. I find the one that's breaking first and fix that, in the life you've actually got.
We sort out which way in fits on the call. That includes how much of me you get.
Food that happens instead of food that's planned. Restaurants, travel, nine o'clock dinners, no time to weigh rice on a Tuesday. Protein first, then timing, then the rest. Built around how you actually eat, and we stop tracking as soon as you don't need to.
Crashing at 3 PM, waking at 3 AM, coffee doing less every year. The sleep and the energy are the same system. We look at when you eat, when the caffeine stops, and what the evening looks like. The first week usually shows which one's the problem, and we start there.
Wired at night, flat in the morning, a week that never really lets up. A lot of what feeds that is how the day is set up. Caffeine, when you eat, how hard you're training, what the evening looks like. We start there and see what changes. I can't say how much it moves for you.
Weight that won't move, or moves and comes back. Training you keep restarting. A sore knee or shoulder that plans your week for you. We build the training around your calendar and what's bothering you, and get the food in order so the work pays off.
A lot of people come to me thinking this is a fitness thing. Fair. It was for me. I wanted abs. What I found was that the food and the timing also run everything else. Training's still part of it. But it's the inputs that make the training, the energy and the weight actually hold.
Most people over the age of 35 aren't failing at discipline. They're running on a system that stopped resetting years ago. Short sleep. Food that happens instead of food that's planned. Training that starts every January and stops every February. A back or a knee or a shoulder that decides how the week goes.
Nothing sticks on top of that, and it isn't a character problem. It's an order problem. You can't build capacity on a base that never settles.
So I start underneath. Food, stimulation, recovery, sleep, load, the inputs. In the conditions you've actually got. Not the conditions a program wishes you had.
That sequence is the same whether you work with me for two weeks or a year. What changes is how far down it we get.
I used to weigh 240 pounds and drove a truck full time. I lost about 50 pounds and left the truck, built a following on social media, and kept burning through my nervous system to keep up with it all. I didn’t understand what was happening to me at the time. Then I got certified in nutrition, and they don’t teach you how the nervous system works or how to regulate it, so I did the research myself.
Along the way people with autoimmune symptoms started coming to me and saying the same thing: Lou, all my numbers are going the right direction, I don’t know what you’re doing but it’s helping. I kept studying. What I learned is that food and timing matter most.
Think about a bodybuilder before a show. They stress their nervous system so hard they look flat, and the second the food goes in they look the best they ever will. That’s exactly how your body works. Put the right sources in at the right time and that’s when you feel your best, your energy comes back, your sleep improves. Stress is about regulating and stabilizing, and that’s food’s job.
I’m a trainer and a certified nutrition specialist. If your energy, sleep or body composition is off, that’s what we work on.
I don't get paid for your time. I get paid for your result. If in twelve weeks your system hasn't stabilized and your first bottleneck hasn't moved, we keep going until it does, at no extra cost.
Coaching for a body that's been around a while, and a life that isn't going to change. I'd rather say this up front than find out on the call.
I'm an ACE Certified Nutrition Specialist and an ACE Certified Health Coach. Anything clinical is a doctor's or a therapist's job. I work on the daily inputs.
You tell me what's going on, I tell you straight which of these fits and whether it's the right time. If none of it is, I'll say that too, and you'll still leave knowing what I'd do in your position.
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