You’re Not Losing Weight, and This Is Why (part 1)

I get it. You’re watching your caloric intake, you go out for a run, hit the weights, go for a swim, bike, etc….during the week. Then the weekend rolls around, you hit the bars with your friends, maybe go out to eat 3 or 4 times, Then Sunday night rolls around, and you’re feeling guilty…

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Weight Management, Part IV: – Mastering the “Basics”

Hey all, hope the weekend went well. We’ll hop right into it today, continuing our series on weight management, today talking about what I consider to be “the basics” of weight management. Just like in anything else involving in life involving mastery, if you don’t have the basics down, you have no reason at all…

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Weight Mangement Part III: Start Easy, Build on Success

Anyway, today we’re gonna continue our post series on Weight Management, and in case you missed out, here’s part 1 and part 2. So here’s a question. How many of you have a friend** that, in a conscious effort to lose weight, decides to: – Cut dietary carbohydrate consumption in half – Immediately cut total caloric consumption to…

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Metabolism Basics

I’m partial to Paul Chek because he’s a no-frills no-bs holistic health practitioner who has worked with world class athletes and everyone in between. I like this 3 minute video of him speaking about spot reduction (hint: it doesn’t work, people), as well as covering the TRUE method behind optimizing your metabolism. Pay close attention…

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Does Alcohol make you Gain Weight?

Hey all! Hope the day is going well. We touched last time upon alcohol and calories. Today, I wanted to go into a little more detail with that, as research shows that at least almost 60% of American adults consumed alcohol in the last month (https://www.niaaa.nih.gov/alcohol-facts-and-statistics).  We all have been told that alcohol has carbohydrates in it,…

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Still Not Losing Weight? Consider this… (part 3)

Hey all, today we’ll wrap up our “Still Not Losing Weight” series.  Here are parts 1 and 2 (provide link) to get caught up. 8 ) Don’t Just Set a Goal, Set an Emotional Attachment To Your Goal! These next 3 are probably the most important of all. I can’t tell you how many times…

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Still Not Losing Weight? Consider this… (part II)

Annnnnd were back again folks with part deux of our adventure on discovering why you might not like what you see in the mirror. So without further ado, we continue with #s 6-7. 6) Stop Jogging, Start Sprinting! I’ve covered this topic in depth here and here. To put it simply, steady state cardio is absolutely excellent for…

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Resistance Training vs. Cardio Training for Fat Loss

I wanted to touch upon a study in the Journal of the American College of Nutrition I came across earlier, talking about cardio vs. resistance training for fat loss in the presence of a hypocaloric diet, and what kind of results each group received (Unfortunately, the link is now inaccessable). I’ll give a brief background of…

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