Factors that impact why we eat and how much we eat can be hidden and counterintuitive. Today we discuss a perceived positive that can have negative effects on your behaviors. What makes you select certain foods to eat? Because they are healthy? Because they are for...
Achieving and maintaining your ideal body weight requires a multi-faceted approach. You can't go at it with just diet or just exercise if you are looking for optimal results. You can't attack this problem with just one specific kind of exercise and expect optimal...
Last night was a rare treat as I was able to have dinner with a long-time friend who was in town for business. (Rochester, NY isn't really a business hub that people frequent.) As you can imagine, our conversation eventually landed on nutrition. 🙂 We started...
Last night, I was a guest on Mike Robertson's Physical Preparation Podcast. Before the interview we chatted about not doing a traditional interview, ("what are the 5 foods that you think people should eat?"), instead we opted for a more free flowing, at sometimes...
Let’s get the obvious reason you overeat out of the way: Food tastes really good. And some of it tastes really, really good. The truth, though, is that everyone likes food, yet some people struggle to find their stopping point more than others. Being aware of the...
Nutrition plans can be put into 2 phases: Planning & Executing. Generally, people love the planning phase. This is the fun part. You get to decide what diet plan you are going to use, select meals and recipes that you are going to eat, and you can even model...
I never thought that some of the best diet advice I'd hear would come from Andy Dwyer on Parks & Recreation. A couple years ago Chris Pratt, who played Andy Dwyer, was cast as Star Lord in the sci-fi film Guardians of the Galaxy. Unlike Andy, Star Lord was a...
"Is [insert any random food] food bad for me?" This is a very common question that I get from people whether they be clients or a person sitting next to me on a plane after they learned that I'm a nutritionist. I still don't have a good standard answer to this...
In his book "The Magic Power of Self-Image Psychology" Dr. Maxwell Maltz tells a story about a Russian philosopher and mystic named Pyotr Ouspenskii. Maltz tells a tale of Ouspenskii taking psychedelic drugs in an effort to further his research into the nature of...
Everyone wants fast. Fast can be good. One of my best selling weight loss programs was a 4 week fast fat loss program for advanced trainees. But fast is only temporary, you can only sprint for finite amount of time. Slow is oftentimes the better course of action....
