It is said that you can gain as much as 10 pounds over the holiday season. That figure may be more exaggerated than the real, however many people I have encountered over the years report gaining as much as 5-7 pounds over the holidays.
In order to fight over-eating this holiday season, you must be [...]
Do you know how many calories there is in a pound of fat? It’s a whopping 3,500 calories. To put it into perspective, let’s say you are 50 lbs. overweight. Multiply 3,500 to 50 and you get 175,000 calories. That’s 175,000 calories of blubbery fat you don’t need. Let’s look at it with another perspective.
If [...]
If you have ever suffered from a plateau in your exercise regime, this acronym may explain to you how to get through it.
Let’s begin by breaking down the meaning of FIT:
Frequency
The amount times you exercise per week. Example- 3 times per week with weight, 5 times per week doing aerobic exercise
In order to progress in [...]
There are 5 Points of Wellness of which we need to be complete in our lives. Most people in the Western civilized world are lacking in not only one of these components, but nearly all of them.
What exactly are the five points of wellness?
1. Physical
2. Emotional
3. [...]
This is a big myth I fight to debunk everyday. The truth is that your body can’t tell the difference between you dramatically reducing your calories to lose weight with a diet or starvation.
Why It’s A Myth
The science behind it is simple: when you dramatically reduce your caloric intake, your body shifts into [...]
It’s not called comfort food for nothing. Psychologists believe that food is a primary source of comfort for many people. As we grew, we were spoiled by candy-toting grandparents, soothed with ice cream after a scare and rewarded with jelly beans for not crying during a haircut. Little wonder then that we now turn [...]
Before I begin, I want you to understand that carbs are not bad for you. In fact, carbohydrates are a nutrient that your body desperately needs to sustain metabolism and to give you energy. The problem is that most Americans buy the wrong kinds of carbohydrates. The stuff that you buy that comes in [...]
Many people fail in their weight loss efforts because of common self-defeating weight loss thoughts. Below are two of the most common. As you read, you may find that these thoughts have crossed your mind.
Now that I’m exercising, I can eat whatever I want!
This one definitely hits the top of the list, as it [...]
Thankfully, we are not all the same person. We don’t look the same or act the same. Some of us are short (like me) and others are tall. Some of us are broad and some us are narrow. To get to the point, you have a particular body type.
During the 1940’s a doctor by the [...]
As if things were not confusing enough, we actually have classifications for different kinds of protein-containing foods. Just like carbohydrate foods, different protein foods can have higher amounts of calories per ounce. This is usually the result of higher amounts of fat combined with the protein. Here is a quick breakdown of each classification:
Very Lean [...]
