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10 Foods that Sobataged My Fat Loss Efforts

June 27, 2010
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I’ve dieted in the past, and while I kept to “healthy” foods, I still had trouble with adherence. Back then, I created a (mental) list of foods that I must avoid to prevent me from blowing my diet. These were 10 of those foods: Nuts – Pure Calorie Bombs Nut butters – peanut butter, almond [...]

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The Psychology of Scale Weight

June 14, 2010
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Scale weight is simply that – the weight that you see when you step on a weighing scale. TV shows like ‘The Biggest Loser’ have shown that we’re obsessed with scale weight. As such, many people who embark on a diet use scale weight as the defining factor of reaching their goals. That’s good, since [...]

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Why I’m Against Vegetarianism

June 10, 2010
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Basically, it’s not the healthiest route forward. Regardless of whether you’re an athlete or an office worker, going vegetarian isn’t the smartest thing to do. It’s Hard to Get Enough Protein Protein has many benefits which I talked about in the recent article ‘How Much protein should you eat?‘. Unfortunately, getting enough protein from non-meat [...]

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How much protein should you eat?

June 5, 2010

Athletes are known to put strong emphasis on consuming dietary proteins. Lyle McDonald does a great post on how much protein athletes need. That begs the question: What about everyone else? Protein is one of the most important nutrients in the body, yet the general populus doesn’t seem to care about it. Here’s what their [...]

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Coffee

May 3, 2010
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Caffeine is one of the most ubiquitous drugs you can find. Available over-the-counter for a low price, it’s indispensable to some, and detested by others. Some (most) people claim that they can’t do without it, and others ardently claim that coffee is the root of all evil, citing anecdotal evidence of feeling much better without [...]

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The Holiday Binge: How Much Damage Can You Do?

April 14, 2010
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For most people, any holiday is a time to eat and be merry. Obviously, all that extra food has to go somewhere. Why is that in our interest? Because knowing that would better our understanding of how to deal with it. Indirectly, this gives the obsessive amongst us a certain peace of mind (instead of [...]

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How Fast Can You Lose Fat?

March 30, 2010
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In one sentence: as fast as your protein requirements let you. First, there are stupid ways to do this. Some of those ways (juice fasting, relying on designer shakes, etc) are stupid at best and dangerous at worst. I am interested in the scientifically and anecdotally verified method of losing fat as fast as possible, [...]

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Losing Fat is like Doing Math

March 16, 2010
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If you ask a room full of 100 adults about their experiences on taking Math in school, there’s a high likelihood that the responses will fall on the edges of the graph. In other words, people usually either hate or love doing Math. You would likely find the same trend with people who embrace a [...]

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Intermitting Fasting

February 20, 2010
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This is a topic which I have some fondness towards, mainly because I have gained many benefits from its practice. What intermittent fasting is, is a regular scheduled period of time whereby no food is consumed; a fast. This can be done in various ways. With popular approaches being fast5, the warrior diet, eat stop [...]

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Chinese New Year Goodies: The Long Version

February 9, 2010
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In my original Chinese New Year Goodies post, I gave a brief look at the differing caloric density of various foods. This post is the long version. It is for the people who want a deeper discussion into the vagaries of holiday eating. What I want to talk about today is not the traditions of [...]

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