Diet

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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Chinese New Year Goodies

February 6, 2010
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Chinese New Year is coming. That means lots of festive treats, which also means lots of binges and bulging waistlines. Recently, an article in the Singapore Straits Times, ‘Bulge-Free Binge’ (with the online version here), tackled just this topic. It showed pictures of various festive foods, giving the caloric count for 100g of each type [...]

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Life isn’t Linear: What Dieters and Stockbrokers have in Common

February 4, 2010
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A linear relationship means that if you put in 3 units of effort and get say 2 units of reward, adding another 3 units of effort should yield you another 2 units of reward. Life isn’t like that of course. More often than not, the progress of any condition comes in spurts and stops. Let’s [...]

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Eating Less

January 13, 2010
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In the case of eating to lose fat, the problem is usually psychological in nature. For many, eating is a very emotional experience. Eating less ≈ compromising emotional security. I think that people who manage to maintain their goal weight/physique/etc somehow internalise that sometimes eating is a needed emotional filler, and sometimes it is simply [...]

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Fad Diets

December 4, 2009
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I’ve mentioned my dislike for fad diets every now and then, but I have never defined what I deem to be a fad diet. This post will clarify some of that, and I will touch on my definition of a fad diet, as well as attack two notable examples. I will stick to the diets [...]

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What to Do if You’re Eating out on a Diet – Moderation is Key

October 22, 2009

“Everything in Moderation”, was what I remember hearing from my mother all the time. My question, is how true is this philosophy, and thus where should it be applied? So far, my best answer is: In anything whereby the means are beyond your control of preparation, and where happiness is a function of your individually [...]

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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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