Posts in the Category "Fat Loss"


Eating Your Emotions

While circumstances around you might be out of your control, how you choose to react to them are well within your control. You have choices. Thoughts, feelings and emotions require acknowledgement but you have the choice of how you will acknowledge them and react. Eating won’t resolve the emotional dilemma but instead creates the foundation.. Read more →


The Superiority Complex of “Clean Eating”

“Few things are more pretentious, hypocritical, and downright annoying to me than people who act morally superior about eating ‘clean’ but then have massive binges that they try to justify as ‘cheat’ meals. Let me tell you something, severe caloric restriction followed by massive uncontrolled binging is NOT an effective long term diet solution for.. Read more →


“Good Foods” Versus “Bad Foods”

I just went to the store and ran into a friend who shared with me than he’d just come from the funeral of an acquaintance from high school that had died last week. When I realized who this person was the shock really hit me hard. At age 32 he suffered a spontaneous stroke and.. Read more →


Cutting Phases – How Many Weeks?

It always perplexes me when I see people posting that they’re starting an 8/10/12 week cutting phase. All I can think is: “How do you know your body is going to get as lean as you’d like it to get within the span of a specified number of weeks. And if you’re not as lean.. Read more →


The Tabata Myth

With all of the talk about interval training for fat loss in recent years it was only a matter of time before someone stumbled across a couple studies conducted in the mid 1990’s by Dr. Izumi Tabata and his colleagues.  In fact, these studies created such a rage that now hundreds of thousands of trainees.. Read more →


Being a Slave to a Diet or Your Emotions?

People have been convinced that maintaining some sort of dietary control is “being a slave to their diet” and that eating whatever they want is freedom. True freedom comes, however, when you realize that when you are not IN CONTROL of your diet, your emotions and circumstances are in control of you.