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WHO IS @PAULTHENUTRITIONIST ANYWAY? · No Forking Nonsense - The Nutritionist UK

• 0:00
  @paulthenutritionist: Welcome to no forking nonsense. The podcast that slices through the nonsense and serves you straight talking nutrition advice that actually works. I'm Paul, a registered nutritionist and your host. And every episode, I'll be debunking diet myths, breaking down confusing food advice and giving you practical science backed tips to help you eat better, feel better and get your hedge back. There'll be no fads.
• 0:24
  Before we get started on this episode, I just wanted to say if you want five days of completely free coaching from me, a registered leading nutritionist, for free straight in your inbox, go to tinyurl.com/kickstarter26 and you will get five days of completely free coaching straight in your inbox just by clicking that link. So if you have enjoyed anything that I have ever said, go to tinyurl.com/kickstarter26. Let's get into the episode. Hello and welcome to another episode of No Forking Nonsense and today I'm doing something slightly different. On my coaching community we have an exclusive podcast feed for clients only where we go into perhaps more specific intimate relevant topics that come out of the coaching community.
• 1:27
  So we've covered burnout recently, we talked about how to navigate Christmas over summer, we talk about how to manage holidays and all inclusive buffets and anything that comes up we make a point of doing like a bit of a podcast episode on that and recently I did one after three people requested a podcast to get to know me and it got some really nice feedback and although I'm not probably going to go into as much detail as I did with those guys because I know those guys inside out and obviously we need to perhaps not share our whole life on the internet to the thousands of you that listen to this but I thought I'd give you a bit of context about who I actually am as opposed to perhaps just talking at you without information, thought I'd add a bit of human to no forking nonsense. Humour me for the next fifteen minutes or so as I give you a bit of a backstory about where I come from, how we got to where we are today and hopefully it just adds a bit of context about where I and how we got here.
• 2:40
  So my name is Paul Evans and hopefully you follow me on Instagram paulthenutritionist so you know what I look like at least. I live in Leamington Spa. Ironically I was born in Leamington Spa but I grew up in Stratford, Upanhaven. I say ironically because the hostel that I was born in actually doesn't exist anymore. Grew up in a very working class household, so I am a middle child and there are three years between all three of us boys and I am 37 in August.
• 3:18
  Growing up, we definitely didn't have much money at all. Food was my mum's not going to listen to this and I think one of my brothers might listen to this so you would agree that mum's cooking wasn't great, there was a lot of beige and there still is, we go to her house she doesn't shop at Iceland but if she did it would be like a shop window for Iceland, she loves beige stuff. We had, I think if I remember, a rotation of about four meals and that was just kind of how it was. My mum, because mum did break up when I was four, I remember her saying to me, she was quite ashamed by the whole concept, when I said why didn't you have free school meals? She said because I was embarrassed so we ended up having packed lunches every day even though we didn't have much money and at times dinner was, you know, it was cheap because there was no money in the house.
• 4:20
  And with that came some challenges as well, like I really struggled in school probably because at the age of four, suddenly my whole life was ripped apart and I just remember I just could never concentrate. I was always kind of like struggling to work out my position in life. Even at an early age, I just didn't really feel like I understood how to learn, like all these people are learning stuff and I was like I don't understand this, this is rubbish. I can't, I just found it really boring. And as I kind of went through junior school I really struggled, remember being labelled the naughty child, I didn't actually do anything that horrendous.
• 5:00
  But then there were kids who were naughtier than me but they got loads of sympathy and I was like I don't get it. And going into secondary school I just was like, I just wanted attention and I was playing up because I didn't get school, I didn't like school. Cutting a long story short and again I went into more detail on this in my client podcast but it turns out, I found out at 19 years old that I have ADHD. I did an assessment at university, confirmed ADHD, it makes a lot of sense. But I really just kind of didn't get concentration.
• 5:34
  I remember I was, that a couple of things, so firstly when I was 15, because I was like I'm five foot ten, just shy of. Remember growing up as a scrawny child, I didn't really belong so I was like how can I get girls to like me?' That's when at the age of 15 I discovered the gym? I used to go to the gym not really knowing what was going on. There was a men's health magazine in my gym, it was a hotel gym in Stratford, Copenhagen, Club Motivation, my mum still goes there actually, but there was always a men's health magazine, thought it was like a gay magazine because there was loads of topless men on it. I remember always wondering why is there a gay magazine in the gym?
• 6:19
  And then I remember just kind of looking at the top and it said something like this is like 02/2005 and I remember thinking like that and then I'd look at the headline and it'd be like get apps in six days or whatever it was, know, like those proper clickbaity headlines and then it was like eat your way to better health and I was like hold on a minute and then I opened it and I read it and I realised that it was actually a men's health magazine but I was never interested in the work, I always went into the nutrition aspect of things and it was that moment there that I remember quite intriguingly that it was like somebody had handed me a magic potion, know, showing me that you can eat certain things to change how you look and how you feel. And it really struck a chord with me and I started to explore protein and it was obviously my mum was like, well we'll just get you some more chicken dippers then, you know that was the extent. We'd have eggs and beans, I had a lot of poached egg and baked beans on toast because I needed protein.
• 7:22
  Remember saying to mum, we get some chicken? She said, no I can't afford chicken. And so that was a real challenge. But I started to, you know, I remember drinking a lot of water and feeling really good for it and I remember being in Physics once, which is one of my worst subjects. For whatever reason I decided to just drink loads and loads of water and suddenly I had this almost like a bit of a euphoria and I could suddenly focus and I was like what's just happened?
• 7:52
  And it was only then that I started to appreciate that by putting things in your body, you can perhaps develop your own health in a positive manner. Then, so I was going to the gym, to improve my nutrition, I had two years out before going to university, trying to work out what to do, completely irrelevant but I taught in a special needs school. Then I went to university and I studied psychology and counselling. After two years and you know you go to the university and your housemates were kind of interested in the gym, taking protein shakes, doing a lot of men's health workouts or whatever we could find, just trying to get massive. It was only a half to second year because my housemates were on a sandwich course and I wasn't, I decided to have a year out.
• 8:44
  It was then that I decided to just change my life. It sounds really cliche if you like, but I decided I was just going to change. And I was like I've got an opportunity here because I'm going back to uni next year, so I can go back to uni going into this brand new year with brand new people and I can almost have a second chance at university. So in that year out, I decided to study nutrition because I was really getting into it at this point, started to see kind of results with my training and what I was eating because I was earning very, very little money in my year out. I worked in a mainstream school as a teaching assistant and I think my salary was about $12, which is absolutely insane.
• 9:27
  But I decided to redo my maths GCSE because I got an E and somehow got into university. I think I lied because I shouldn't have been in university but I redid that and when I was in Leamington Library I decided to look at all the nutrition books and picked one up and I just, I was obsessed with it. So I went into the library toilet and I took the security label off and I took it home and I still have that book to this day. And I read every single thing and I was obsessed. And that year out that I had, I was just obsessed with reading nutrition forums, reading these articles and I just couldn't get enough of it.
• 10:12
  It was like everything to me. I went back to university and I said to my dissertation tutor who was unreal, she was brilliant, Tamsin Bowers Brown, you will never listen to this but thank you because I sat with her and I said I want to do my dissertation on nutrition and she said that's a problem because you're studying psychology and counselling and she said leave it with me. She then said to me what we could do is we could do your dissertation on school food and school nutrition because it's kind of linked and so what I did is I worked with Sheffield City Council on the placement and again there's a whole story there of how like there was last minute and I was about to be placed in a school for some reason and then literally the day, it was like 03:00, I got a call from Sheffield City Council and they were like yes. And I went in and it was amazing, was like I'm in an environment where people are talking about nutrition all the time, It was a school feed service about children's nutrition and I absolutely loved it. And I did my dissertation, I was obsessed with it because I was talking and thinking about nutrition all day long.
• 11:20
  And when I handed that dissertation in, I swear to God I genuinely believed I would get 100%. I obviously didn't. I think I got, it was either 79 or 81, I can't remember it's irrelevant because overall I got 68. The first thing I did was message my dissertation tutor when I got those results and I said why didn't I get 100? Think of the arrogance of that, because I was that involved in it and I remember I was obsessed with it.
• 11:53
  So I was that obsessed, just a quick story, I had a girlfriend at the time and I'll never forget, she's probably never going to listen to this either but Megan her name was and I got her to read my whole dissertation to me just to make sure I hadn't missed anything. Took her three hours, what a girl. Anyway, yeah so I did that and then straight after uni I worked for an eating disorders charity where we went into schools and we talked to children and young people around eating disorders and body image and with that you did unofficial counselling. I can't remember what they called it but you basically did one on one work with children with eating disorders and young people with eating disorders which was fantastic. Then I was like I need to get another real job so I went back into the school that I was paid $10 a year to work in but they gave me a promotion so I was running a behaviour unit so I was on like $20 which I was buzzing about, was basically rich but again like it wasn't what I wanted to be doing because it was nothing to do with nutrition.
• 13:02
  And then I got a job with Northamptonshire, it was county council seconded to the NHS where myself and a colleague, we were to write a children's obesity project and basically improve the obesity rates of Northamptonshire. I did that and we did that, we wrote this project, we ran this project for three years, it was always going to be a three year project but because we were on a fixed term contract, they have to make you redundant. So I got a redundancy payout which was insane. So at the end of that project, with the success of it exposing me to this world of nutrition, public health, I set up my own business in children's nutrition, looking at lunch times. I became the vice chairman for the British Obesity Society, so I had a lot of input with public health in terms of I contributed to the child obesity plan, to the school food plan.
• 13:57
  Was always, up until Covid, was always on the news with regards to child with obesity, obesity in general. Pre Covid, I did a lot of work in Parliament with all parliamentary party groups for school food, child with obesity. I basically had a residency on Tort Radio in LBC, until Covid everyone just wanted to talk about obesity. Covid hit, got through Covid, but during Covid I decided, because there was just like something missing in my life, I decided what I wanted to do was to look at coaching because I was always kind of doing nutrition stuff on the side for people and then I got a Prince's Trust grant for, I think it was about $10, to set up a nutrition business purely for teachers because I thought well that's what I'll do because I'm working with schools, that's my expertise, so I set up this business where it gave me an understanding of how to run a nutrition business. At the same time I decided to do my Masters in Nutrition, which I did back at Sheffield I did it full time whilst running a business, which is wild when I think about it, but I managed it.
• 15:09
  So I did that, got very upset when I went back to Sheffield Hallam after, I don't know, about three or four years of not being there, it might have been longer than that, maybe longer than that, six, seven years? And I just hate change and I went there and nightclubs were closed and it broke my heart. But yeah, so I did that, we ran the school health business successfully for years but it just wasn't what I wanted to be doing. And so I decided two years ago to really up the ante on my social media with regards to my nutrition business, I started on Facebook, that went really well and because I'm always investing in myself, because I really believe that I'm not an expert in everything, I outsource to coaches, business coaches, business mentorships, masterminds. I joined a mastermind and it just showed me, it taught me everything with regards to marketing and business.
• 16:05
  That was really helpful and then I joined another one which was too expensive but it was really helpful just being around other coaches and I ended up going to loads of different events, got myself a coach in Vancouver who owns awesome supplements and we did a lot of work with regards to growing my business. I went to a lot more seminars, lot more workshops and basically just grew my business. When I joined a fitness entrepreneur, which is Phil Graham's Mastermind 2022, the first thing they said is you've got to set up an Instagram and so I did. Actually it can't have been 2224. So I set up Instagram in 2024, started posting on there and things went from strength to strength and that is where we are now.
• 16:53
  Since then I've built the Nutritionist UK called Nutritionist, which is what you know me as now. It helps being a male nutritionist in this industry because there aren't many registered nutritionists who are males, who talk like I do, the nutritious world is very like a bit anal and they don't like you talking about things. My episode last week on supplements didn't go down well because you're not allowed to talk about supplements but you are at the same time and it's all like for me I'm like listen, aim is to push through the nonsense and make things as simple as possible. So yes, I've built out this business. Every single human being I've ever worked with, we've got results with.
• 17:37
  It's so empowering when people tell me that they want to work with me for a full year. I've got clients who signed up to work with me for two years. You know, I'm so passionate about what I do and I've had clients who are professional athletes, I've had clients who have been on every diet under the sun, I've had clients who've dreamed to be a certain weight, whether that is to be heavier, to be lighter, I've had clients with kidney disease, I've had diet clients who have IBS symptoms and they've been kind of fobbed off by NHS and we got to the bottom of it. Like I love what I do every single day and you know I'm constantly investing in myself, I'm constantly investing in the project. You know my clients are everything to me, I give them all of my time, I speak to them most days, they formally check-in with me on a weekly basis, they have access to what I think is the best resources that are possible to them.
• 18:35
  We have such a good community, we have live calls where we go into things in more detail, they can contact me whenever they like, like I really care and they are getting results as a result. And it's as cliche as you know, I can't emphasise this enough, their lives are changed, period, just from having a registered nutritionist who has their back. You know, I often say it's a family affair. I have clients who reach out to me because they want to talk about their children's nutrition, their husband's nutrition, their wife's nutrition, like I am so passionate about that and I think that that is why things go from strength to strength. If you're local you'll know that I'm working with the pub pubs and we've got menus on there which are approved by me that I helped co write.
• 19:27
  The reason why I decided to do that was because I'm very passionate about us going out and having a night out and eating foods in a pub without it having to completely destroy your own health and make you feel like shit, like I'm so passionate about. I don't give people meal plans because I want you to be able to sit with your family, go to your kid's birthday party, you know, and still get results, whatever that result looks like. I want you to feel like when you sleep you wake up with loads of energy. I want you to feel like you can run around with your kids. I want you to feel like if you want to go to the gym, you can go to the gym without A, feeling out of breath just for walking up the stairs and B) to feel like you're making progress and you're energised enough to be able to concentrate, to have you know, to be in a good mood, to have a sex drive, to feel attractive when you look in the mirror like these are your basic human rights and for me why hate is the fact that when people are trying to lose weight they feel like they need to cut stuff out.
• 20:24
  That isn't the case and I'm so passionate about that. That's what I intend to do. For the rest of the year, we continue to build, like I'm always adding stuff, I'm trying to constantly improve the experience for my clients, I'm trying to share as much information as possible on Appalled Nutritionists because I want people to be exposed to the most simple information that there is, so that you know they haven't got to buy these stupid supplements or go on stupid diets that you know leave them feel worse six months later, I'm about long term change. You will rarely see me post people with their tops off because that's not I don't want to get people on stage, I don't work with bodybuilders because it's miserable and it's very temporary. My aim is to show people to eat the foods that they enjoy, to be social with their friends and for their family and to live the best life they possibly can do because it's not too late to feel the best version of yourself and to look in the mirror and to feel proud of what you are and I will continue to do that.
• 21:20
  So I hope you found this useful, I've tried to keep it short, there are many other layers to this but please do send me messages if you have any questions and please sign up to the Kickstarter so you can have a flavour of some really simple things that you can do in the next five days to be the best version of yourself. Head to tinyurl.com/kickstarter26 for five days of completely free coaching. And if you want to send me a message about anything, if you ve enjoyed this episode, message me Paul@thenutritionistuk.com. I'll catch you in the next one. That's it for this episode of No Forking Nonsense, where the fluff gets binned and the facts get served.
• 22:00
  If you found this helpful, share it with someone who could do some clarity from an expert. That's me by the way. And make sure you hit follow so you don't miss what's coming next. And if you want more straight talking, no nonsense nutrition advice, come and find me on Instagram Paul, the nutritionist. Until next time, eat smart, feel human again, and stop falling for the forking nonsense.
• 22:21
  See you next time.