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 people that are fit? Because athletes eat them? A […]
Mental Diet
A Really Bad Long Term Strategy for Weight Loss
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 results. You need a mixed approach. In a 2011 study, published in the […]
Why You Might Not Need to Learn More About Nutrition
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 talking about my friend’s diet,and there were two distinct […]
The Nutrition Gray Zone
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 philosophical, discussion. I think it went great…but I’m interested in hearing your […]
The 6 Sinister Reasons You Overeat
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 reasons you might overeat can help you identify […]
Neuronal Crowding, Your Brain, and Your Diet
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 out your rate of weight loss […]