If you’re waiting for the perfect day where you jump out of bed, you look in the mirror and scream “today’s the day I start!”, well… Go back to bed. We all have these perfect visions for ourselves; how many times have you told yourself “I figured I’d have more money/weighed less/been happier at this [...]
Imagine yourself a 20 year old college student with a brand new shiny credit card. Your first taste of financial freedom. Barely containing your excitement, you rush out to the nearest Best Buy and buy the perfect 47″ LCD TV. And then you buy the DVDs for it. And then the Blue Ray player and [...]
Don’t take this as an excuse to half-ass your workouts, because it’s not. This is hopefully a contract between us that will initiate some tough love. Here’s the agreement that hopefully we can come to; when you’re in the gym, you’re there to workout. Don’t bring the latest issue of Cosmo or your best friend [...]
When you want to lose weight fast, you’re in for a battle. A million years ago it would have been beneficial to be overweight. The overweight people would have survived a harsh winter. Body fat was a great thing during the summer months of drought when there wasn’t anything to eat. But now it’s the [...]
In the great, long-winded debate on “what is the better diet” you often see the likes of personalities Gary Taubes vs Dean Ornish debating the issue of whether fat has a role in someone’s diet. Is it possible that they’re both right, depending on the individuals insulin resistance levels? At least one (1995) study alludes [...]
The last couple of days were uneventful — by then the shakes had become somewhat automatic, and I was mainly focused on how I was going to transition to a more normal eating pattern. My skill with calipers is still a work in progress, but I would say that I went from about 18% bodyfat [...]
