Lifestyle Athlete Amanda Goedde Loses Weight, Gains a Ton of Fitness with CBG Blueprint Method
In 2023, Amanda Goedde completed her first Open workout as prescribed and was more motivated than ever to continue improving her fitness.
The one thing she knew was blatantly missing, though, was a commitment to her nutrition.
“Nutritionally, I wasn’t really doing anything. I was tired all the time, and I realized I just didn’t know enough,” said Goedde, adding that one of her main goals was to lose weight.
That being said, Goedde was hesitant to hire a nutrition coach, as she thought it would mean she would have to start weighing and measuring her food, and she didn’t want to “go down that rabbit hole,” she said.
Then she stumbled across one of Justin Romaine’s posts on social media.
“It said something about how you can achieve your goals without tracking macros, and I was like, ‘I’m listening,’” said Goedde, now 36.
She reached out and was teamed up with CBG nutrition coach Amanda Jeffrey.
Two years later, the two are still working together, and Goedde can’t believe the differences she has experienced both with her body composition and her performance in the gym.
Geodde’s CBG Journey
When Jeffrey first gave Goedde her own personalized blueprint, Goedde was more than hesitant.
“I was thinking, ‘There is no way I can eat this amount of food and lose weight. This just doesn’t make sense,” Goedde remembers of her initial reaction.
But she had decided to put her trust in Jeffrey and give it a chance.
“OK, I’m going to eat every two-and-a-half to three hours,” she said, laughing.
The first two weeks were challenging, Goedde admitted. Sometimes she got to a point where she just didn’t want to eat anymore. But after a couple weeks, “something clicked.”
“I started feeling hungry [when it was time to eat] and I was like, ‘OK, cool something has shifted,’” she said.
Further, she realized she wasn’t hitting the wall at 3 pm anymore like she used to, and her aches and pains were disappearing.
“I wasn’t fatigued anymore. I was always wide awake. It was a brand new thing,” she said.
And after 16 weeks, Goedde had lost 20 pounds.
“It was incredible to see. After a whole life of being like, don’t eat this and don’t eat that if you want to lose weight, and make sure you don’t have carbs, it was wild to see the results with eating carbs and not having to say no to everything,” Goedde explained.
Prior to working with Jeffrey, Goedde said she wasn’t eating so poorly, but that she wasn’t portioning her meals effectively, and wasn’t necessarily eating at the right times. Changing this made all the difference, she explained.
“I also realized just how little greens I was eating throughout the day. At dinner, they were always there, but I ignored that during breakfast and lunch. There were a lot of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for lunch [before working with Jeffrey],” she added.
Nearly two years in, Goedde has largely maintained her 20 pounds weight loss, but she has also packed on a ton of muscle and is leaner than ever.
“My body composition has shifted from being pretty decently fit, to, ‘Oh, are those my traps? Do I see some lats?’ It has been cool to see how my body has changed,” she said. “I look substantially different in terms of muscle and body composition than I used to.”
Further, athletically, Goedde is not even recognizable as the athlete she was during the 2023 Open when she got her first kipping pull-up.
Today, she can string together kipping chest-to-bar pull-ups and toes-to-bar, and her lifting numbers have improved dramatically, as well.
Recently, Goedde hit a 200-pound back squat, “something two years ago I would have never thought was possible,” she said, and she finally achieved her bodyweight clean.
Goedde credits all of the above to the way she fuels herself today, and to Jeffrey in particular, with “giving me a brand new perspective on how powerful food is,” she said.
Goedde’s Message: Nothing can Replace a Coach
Not only is food powerful, but having a personal coach by her side has been invaluable to her journey, Goedde said.
Physically, Jeffrey has helped Goedde navigate through some cutting and bulking phases, as well as maintenance phases, depending on her goals and what was going on in her life.
Right now, for example, Goedde is doing a bit more volume than usual to improve her gymnastics skills, so she is fueling for longer training sessions than in the past.
“Having someone basically in my back pocket…to have a sounding board to bounce things off has been really impactful,” Goedde said.
Not only that, but Jeffrey has also been instrumental for Goedde’s mind.
“She is my nutrition coach, but I also go to her as my mindset person. She probably knows way more about my life than she signed up to know about my life,” Goedde said, laughing.
Ultimately, when it comes to nutrition coaching, nothing can replace a human to human relationship like the one she has with Jeffrey, Goedde said.
“I had never worked with a coach who really felt like they were empathizing with me. She understands that people are people. It’s a real relationship. It’s not just like, ‘OK, I have 300 clients and everyone is going to get the same blueprint,” Goedde said. “I have referred other people and we pull out our blueprints and they’re not the same. They’re made for me.”
Goedde added: “And even though we’re on the opposite side of the country, and she is in Canada, she is a factor in almost every day in my life. I didn’t think I would ever stick with a nutrition coach for two years, but I just signed up for another eight months. This has just become my routine.”