September 2009

Men vs Women: How Different

September 27, 2009
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Clearly, anyone who thinks that a man and a woman are equal must be living on Mars. Sure, we have equal rights, blah blah, but when it comes to fitness training, nature designed the male and female body in pretty different ways. As you would guess, this has some implications on how a female should [...]

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Hair Gel and Diet Coke: Or why we make choices

September 24, 2009
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Just a fun post. Went shopping, and decided to pick up some hair gel. I saw the homebrand hair gel, cost – $1.09. I didn’t buy that, thinking that I wasn’t that cheap. So I bought the one you see in the picture, for $3.99. Not the most expensive one there (I really wonder why [...]

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Diet Self-Sabotage 4: Preventing Self-Sabotage

September 19, 2009
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This is the last (and shortest) post in Self-Sabotage in Fat Loss Diets. It is mainly a summary, and ultimately, change will have to be initated by the subject himself/herself. In Diet Self-Sabotage 1: The Lack of Proper Expectations and the Proper Plan, I talked about how people set unrealistic and unspecific goals and expectations [...]

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Diet Self-Sabotage 3: The Lack of Flexibility

September 16, 2009

This is part 3 of the Self-Sabotage in Fat Loss Diets series. In Diet Self-Sabotage 1: The Lack of Proper Expectations and the Proper Plan, I talked about the need to set both realistic and specific goals and expectations. In Diet Self-Sabotage 2: Patience, Perception and Randomness is Dieting, I talked about how the body [...]

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Diet Self-Sabotage 2: Patience, Perception and Randomness is Dieting

September 12, 2009
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This is the second post in the series, “Self-Sabotage in Fat Loss Diets“. This is a long post. The words patience and randomness don’t go well together. In this post, I will tell you why most people fail in their dieting attempts, and why in my first post in this series, I said that women [...]

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Diet Self-Sabotage 1: The Lack of Proper Expectations and the Proper Plan

September 8, 2009
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This is the first post in the “Self Sabotage in Fat Loss Diets” series. In this post, I will talk about 4 things specifically: How people often set unrealistic or unspecific goals for themselves What some realistic, specific goals are, and some examples of unrealistic, fuzzy goals The result of a lack of a plan [...]

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Self-Sabotage in Fat Loss Diets

September 5, 2009
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This is another series of articles centered around a central theme. This time, I argue that just like in many other pursuits, one must sort out one’s personal nuances to experience success in dieting. Losing fat isn’t an opinion. Aside from a few special cases (see End Notes*), all we need to do is to [...]

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