APEX Health With Simon Johnson
May 25, 2026 · 29 min · 11 segments
This is part two of the three-part series on how to go from 25% to 10% body fat losing 10 to 20 kilos, building lean muscle, and performing at your best as a busy man in your 30s, 40s or 50s. In part…
Simon JohnsonHostJamesHostSo we're going into fat loss first.
So I would be asking them, first off, what their week looks like in the way of, like, work schedule and things to give me an idea of how I'm gonna be programming nutrition.
Have they tracked calories before, and how do they feel about it, for one? Because some clients we do definitely wanna track calories 'cause it's very, very educational.
It teach you about food you've been eating already.
It opens your eyes to knowing more about calories and nutrition things.
Some people are always not on board with that straightaway, so we could start with photos.
So it depends where, where Freddy and Susan are at with that.
Okay.
Okay? I agree that you can do food photos, but just learn and commit to tracking your calories.
You do not have to do it forever, but there's one or two reasons that most people end up in the point where they need to lose 10 to 20 kilos.
You either don't know what's in food from a nutritional value, or you don't make the right decisions in terms of eating the right foods.
But how can you make the right decisions if you don't know what's actually in food? And I always use this example.
Scrambled eggs, avocado on toast, incredibly healthy, right? It could quite easily be 1,000 calories without you even trying.
Yes, it has lots of healthy fats, but it has lots of fats, which means more calories.
And we'll get into this, but when it comes to nutrition, calories are king when it change to...
So we're going into fat loss first.
So I would be asking them, first off, what their week looks like in the way of, like, work schedule and things to give me an idea of how I'm gonna be programming nutrition.
Have they tracked calories before, and how do they feel about it, for one? Because some clients we do definitely wanna track calories 'cause it's very, very educational.
It teach you about food you've been eating already.
It opens your eyes to knowing more about calories and nutrition things.
Some people are always not on board with that straightaway, so we could start with photos.
So it depends where, where Freddy and Susan are at with that.
Okay.
Okay? I agree that you can do food photos, but just learn and commit to tracking your calories.
You do not have to do it forever, but there's one or two reasons that most people end up in the point where they need to lose 10 to 20 kilos.
You either don't know what's in food from a nutritional value, or you don't make the right decisions in terms of eating the right foods.
But how can you make the right decisions if you don't know what's actually in food? And I always use this example.
Scrambled eggs, avocado on toast, incredibly healthy, right? It could quite easily be 1,000 calories without you even trying.
Yes, it has lots of healthy fats, but it has lots of fats, which means more calories.
And we'll get into this, but when it comes to nutrition, calories are king when it change to...
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