Getting Back in Shape: 3 Key Considerations After a Long Layoff If you’re planning to get back in shape after a long break, there are three essential factors to keep in mind. Surprisingly, two of these considerations don’t directly involve exercise but are crucial for the success of your fitness journey. In this blog post, …
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This standard for selecting a construction crew accurately parallels to selecting a strategy for a successful nutrition plan. You can find plans that work quickly, you can find plans with foods that don’t cost much, and you can find plans that don’t require much of your time to complete them, but you’ll seldom find all …
If you had a toothache, you (I hope) would not decide to pick up a dental drill and start repairing your teeth. If your car broke down and you had never looked under the hood before, you likely wouldn’t decide to fix your own engine. But when it comes to exercise, most of us decide …
Consider weight loss to be like purchasing something extravagant. In this example, we’ll use a Ferrari. Most car enthusiasts, if offered a Ferrari, would happily accept the gift. Similarly, most people would happily accept instant weight loss if it were magically offered to them. But Ferraris, and weight loss, are never acquired without a price. …
But what if you didn’t have to sacrifice so much for such a long consecutive period of time? You don’t. Consider, instead, eating this weight-loss-elephant one bite at a time. If you have 15 pounds you want to lose (or 50 pounds, or 150 pounds), I’d like you to forget about all of the target …
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As you can imagine, this often can run in direct opposition to strategies for weight loss via eating less. If your weight is currently stuck and you want it to go down, you could theoretically just stop eating every meal/snack/drink when there is 10% remaining, and just throw it away. But what a waste of …
How good (or useful) a food is to a particular goal is all relative to what you might be eating if you weren’t eating that particular food? For example, “Are granola bars a good food for weight loss?” Well, if it’s replacing a Snickers Bar, then yes, it’s a good food to sub in compared …
The answer is less about how often you go off plan and more about how far you go off plan (and if you are able to do anything to compensate for it). When eating a meal that isn’t part of our plan, it’s tempting to say “Welp, this pizza is already off-plan, might as well …
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You have a paddle with you on this raft, so when you find a spot along the river you especially enjoy, you can row against the water’s current to slow your pace and hang out at that spot a bit longer. With aggressive paddling, you can even go back up stream to a spot you …
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Achieving a fat loss goal can get you to a healthier state, but the process can be anything but. Remember that to lose weight, by definition, you must undernourish your body to the point that it consumes its own tissue for sustenance. Being in this Caloric deficit state stresses your body out and consequently comes …
FAT LOSS IS NOT GOOD FOR YOU, BUT HAVING LOST FAT IS Read More »