Month: August 2009

  • Who Controls How Much Food You Eat?

    Who Controls How Much Food You Eat?

    If you have a weight loss, general health or some other body shape goal (like building muscle) you will have to pay attention to your food intake. Both the total calories and to some degree the types of calories you’re consuming. That doesn’t sound too controversial on the surface. But it gets much more complicated…

  • Weight Loss – Sprint or Marathon?

    Weight Loss – Sprint or Marathon?

    Most people gain weight gradually over time and don’t even notice because it happens so slowly. But almost anyone I’ve ever seen who has lost weight does it rapidly over the course of weeks and months. It almost never takes as long to lose weight as it does to gain it. This goes against conventional…

  • You Can’t Fix More with More

    You Can’t Fix More with More

    There is a fundamental mistake most people in the fitness and nutrition industry are making. And that is trying to fix more with more. In other words, you cannot continue to ‘add’ things into your life and routine expecting them to fix a problem of adding something before that. Instead of promoting the idea of…

  • losing weight is easy if you can separate signal from the noise

    losing weight is easy if you can separate signal from the noise

    When you’re searching for information for solutions to your health or weight loss problems you’re going to be constantly faced with a lot of useless information. Buried deep under the mess is where you’ll find the answer, but you have to learn to separate the useful true information from useless marketing fluff. In other words you’ve…

  • 72 Hour Weight Loss Experiment

    72 Hour Weight Loss Experiment

    I am starting a 3 day weight loss experiment. It’s actually very simple. Here’s how it goes. I’m going to fast for 72 hours. That’s it. I’ll be recording my bodyweight and various measurments as well as strength throughout the 3 days. I’ll update my progress in the comments area of this post along the…