The next 2 or so weeks are undoubtedly festive and fun, but, if you have a fitness and physique goal and are actively in the process of achieving it, well, the holidays can also be a source of great anxiety. You don’t want any regression…but you also want to enjoy your life and have balance… Read more →
I often remind people that as much as you might want it to be or think it will be, fat loss is unfortunately not a linear process. There are peaks and valleys and highs and lows so the sooner you learn to accept that reality, which is also synonymous with accepting that you simply do.. Read more →
In mid-May I inevitably start receiving messages from friends saying something like this: “I have plans to be on a beach in about X weeks from now and I’m wondering if you could put me on a program to get me the body of my dreams in that amount of time.” Of course, my response.. Read more →
Here are a couple nutritional tidbits from Alan Aragon: “Smaller, more frequent meals do not speed metabolism compared to the same total calories & macros consumed in larger, less frequent meals. Objective research has shown this repeatedly in tightly controlled, opinion-free conditions: //www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11319656 //www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1905998” And further to that… “Smaller, more frequent meals are not reliably.. Read more →
I have said before that I do not really believe that being an emotional eater is something that you actually are, but something that you DO. What this means is that, while you may have eaten in response to your emotions in the past, it is not predestined to happen every time you face similar.. Read more →
On our new client questionnaires one of the things we ask for is a representative example of a their current diet. In response I sometimes see what looks like a reasonable intake during the week followed by the statement “weekends off”. So let’s be clear about this, there is no point in busting your butt.. Read more →