Five-time CrossFit Games champion Tia-Clair Toomey is currently in the process of losing the 20 pounds she gained while training to qualify for Australia’s Olympic bobsled team. In a new video on her YouTube channel, the “Fittest Woman on Earth” shares the 2,500-calorie diet she’s using to lean down again in preparation for the CrossFit season.
“Throughout my bobsledding journey I was eating a lot of calories, I was actually force-feeding myself,” she says. “I was at around 3,000 to 3,500 calories a day. I was never hungry and I hated food at that time. So we’re going from one extreme to another here.”
The first meal of the day comprises a toasted bagel with beef bacon and two eggs, another half bagel with peanut butter and banana, a serving of blueberries and three apple cider vinegar gummies and vitamins, coming to a total of 790 calories. Toomey’s husband, coach and former CrossFit athlete Shane Orr, explains that as she is eating breakfast three hours before her training session, the meal is incorporating more fats than would traditionally be the case if the window were smaller. “Throughout the day you’ll see more carbs introduced,” he says.
For lunch, which Toomey typically eats during a long break in the middle of a training session, Orr cooks a protein and iron-rich mix of ground beef and liver with white rice (500 calories). “We’re sticking true to macros, just because I’m trying to lose the bobsled weight,” says Toomey. “So I’ll have this, heaps of carbohydrates, a bit of protein. I had a lot of fats in my breakfast, so I’m not huge on having fats throughout my training… Mostly carbohydrates to help me have the right amount of energy throughout my training session.”
In the second half of her workout, Toomey has a bag full of snacks for when her energy levels start to drop, including a banana, mixed berries and oats, fruit snacks, a grain bar, a protein smoothie, and more supplements, coming in at 780 calories.
“I think it’s really important, even though I am trying to cut weight, I’m also trying to be very conscious of… maintaining the right amount of nutrients that I need to upkeep with my training,” she says. “I’m going to have to slowly decrease the calories as well, because I am overweight compared to where I normally comfortably sit… but I don’t want to do it too rapidly and I also want to make sure that it’s slowly dropping off so that when it comes to semi-finals I’m right where I want to be in terms of my bodyweight, I’m feeling confident, I’m feeling very healthy, and I’m able to exert as much energy as I need to execute workouts.”
Dinner is pork tenderloin, baked potato, avocado, and mixed salad (440 calories). “This is going to be super filling, and also I feel like I have a really nice balance of carbohydrates, proteins and fats,” says Toomey. “Especially making sure I am fuelled for another day of training tomorrow.”
Toomey ends up going over her macro count for the day slightly, so she forgoes her evening snack of oats, almond milk-based yogurt, berries and maple syrup.
“I was able to make sure my body was getting the right nutrients, I didn’t feel depleted throughout the whole day of training,” she says. “And I also know that by maintaining this regular routine and watching what I am consuming, it is going to help me healthily lose the weight that I need to for this season.”
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