Lindsey Matthews – NPC National-Level Bikini Competitor Testimonial
I have only been working with Erik for 3 short months but I can honestly say in that time my feelings and emotions regarding food have been completely overhauled. I have competed in 4 bikini competitions in the last 10 months. For my first one, my meal plan was done by another widely used trainer. For me, it was impossible to stick to. It included foods I hated with no option of swapping, didn’t include anything that could be construed as a sweet treat, didn’t have traditional breakfast foods for breakfast and included 7+ hours of cardio a week. I stuck with that meal plan probably 25% of the time. I did my next show prep on my own thinking I would just follow the same program. I got into a vicous cycle of sticking my spoon in the peanut butter jar and hand in the cereal box and then severely dieting it off the next day. This cycle only left my hungrier the next day when it would all repeat again. I felt completely out of control around food.
A friend of mine wanted me to compete at USA’s with her this summer. I didn’t feel like continuing the eating patterns I was having or literally running my summer away so I told her no. Then I came across Erik and his site and his clients and their stories. I told my friend that the only way I was doing USA’s was if I did it the LBC way. To be honest, I wasn’t totally sure this way would work as well. Low cardio? More food? More variety? Could it be this easy? I decided to put my trust in him and do whatever he said. I was going to try it out and just see if it could work.
Well, friends, it’s true. I dropped 13 lbs in 11 weeks (with a trip to Hawaii thrown in there for good measure) and rocked that stage looking as good as my body could look. I felt amazing. My meal plans were built around the foods that I was able to choose. I LOVED every single meal. 100% compliance is EASY when you love your meal plan! I dropped the fat with just a couple cardio sessions a week! People at the gym were asking why I wasn’t spending more time on the treadmill!
But the biggest success in my book is how my attitude towards food changed. When you love your meals and you have someone to be accountable to, you CAN hit 100% compliance. And when you know you CAN, it feels amazing!!! To know that you can go to an event and bring your own food or eat before you go and just enjoy being there without the stress that the food might bring is so freeing.
Thank you Erik for taking me to nationals at the perfect amount of leanness for me and for helping me completely change my attitude toward food. This program from you has literally been a life changing experience!
– Lindsey Mathews, Springville, UT