Tag: Weight Loss

  • Calories to Maintain Body Weight

    Calories to Maintain Body Weight

    In order to lose weight you will have to be in a caloric deficit, this shouldn’t be news to you. Once you’ve lost the weight you wanted, you can start eating at your daily caloric maintenance level. This is a big difference from going back to eating the way you used to eat that caused…

  • Who Controls Your Food Intake?

    Who Controls Your Food Intake?

    A weird thing keeps happening to me and my friend (who also happens to pay attention to calories in vs out) at some of the local coffee shops that we frequent. I routinely get served MORE food than I order. As many of you know my only rule for weight loss is calories in vs…

  • Eat Less Calories to Lose Weight

    The Claim: The only scientifically repeatable and proven way to lose body fat is to eat less calories than you burn Answer: FACT Eating less calories than you burn is the only proven way to lose bodyfat. It does not matter when you eat those calories, or what kind of calories they are, as long…

  • Eating Late at Night Causes You to Gain Fat?

    The Claim: Eating late at night causes you to gain fat. Answer: FACTOID Gaining weight is simply a matter of eating excess calories. WHEN you eat those calories is irrelevant. But there is a persistent myth that eating late at night somehow causes you to store more fat that eating earlier in the day. There…

  • Breakfast – the Most Important Meal of the Day?

    The Claim: Breakfast is the most important meal of the day and kickstarts your metabolism. If you skip breakfast you’ll overeat at the end of the day and you won’t perform as well at work/school. Answer: FACTOID Eating breakfast has no special effect on your metabolism or metabolic rate as it were. If you like…