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The benefits of yo yo dieting
I don’t buy the narrative of yoyo dieting as I feel it encourages guys to avoid failure, which limits their number of tries. If you follow a way of eating, gain weight and lose weight, feel frustrated that you couldn’t maintain the loss, then it is not the diet. The diet doesn’t have any morality (mostly), it’s our interpretation of the story.
Guys #1 food journal mistake
Keeping a food journal is a fantastic way to draw attention to what, how, when, and how much food you are eating and is a key tool in making health, fitness, and physique changes. If you’re going to use this tool then it is essential you avoid making the most common mistake I see guys make.
Variety leads to poor results too often
When it comes to training and nutrition, particularly when physique change is the goal, variety is low on the priorities list because for many reasons. Such as…
Make healthy the default
Humans tend to follow the path of least effort. By making healthy behavior the default, you stack the odds in your favor, as you are less likely to opt out of something if it is easy, even if you don’t want to do it.
Is Restriction Good For Your Health?
Restriction is a tool that is used to great effect by many guys trying to improve their health, fitness, and physique. But will it work for you?
Is Alcohol Holding You Back?
Is it the calories from the booze you’re choosing…or is it the other decisions you make when you’re buzzed that cause you to struggle?
Temperance Is A Virtue
Temperance is about tolerating the discomfort of delayed gratification while we continue to work hard toward our goals. This is what it takes to achieve your health, fitness, and physique goals.
Flexible Nutrition Guide
This guide is designed to give you guidance on how to establish a baseline of nutritional intake, how to adjust your that intake when shit hits the fan with work/home/life, and how to deviate successfully and without too much mental gymnastics when their is a weekend birthday bash or late night partner schmoozing.
The crude math of fat loss
I am going to willingly commit a cardinal sin here and simplify a nuanced subject down to basic math. I am doing this because, from a purely biological standpoint, it often is this simple…but
How "Potentiation" can aid in your nutrition goals
Changing too much at once is a key contributor to diet failure. Here’s how to use potentiation to fix that forever.
Starting again < keeping going
People tend to be consistent at starting again. Imagine the results if they were as consistent at keeping going.
If tracking progress doesn’t actually lead you to progress, try this…
If you find calorie counting a high friction task that is time-consuming, hard to maintain, and generally frustrating…then consider tracking processes like the ones in the above checklist rather than outcomes like the numbers in Myfitnesspal.
Bread from the bag
Food and in particular restaurant food is a “culinary experience”. It’s a huge part of enjoying your life, and simultaneously, if food is always an experience, then it becomes the norm and by default is no longer an experience.
Diets do work…and they don’t work too.
The health and fitness industry isn’t serving you, the people looking to improve your health and fitness, as well as it could be, and here’s why