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How to Count Calories

August 21, 2009
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This is part 2 of the “3 part calorie counting series” Having covered why to count calories, the next logical step is how to count calories. Most people would shudder at the prospect of having to count every single calorie. However, as mentioned before, there are no true values that can be assigned the innate [...]

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Why Count Calories

August 17, 2009
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This is part 1 of the “3 part calorie counting series” One reason only: To Quantify Energy intake and expenditure To achieve one’s fitness goals, most of the time you need to manipulate energy balance. If you want to lose weight, then obviously you need to eat less than you expend, you can easily quantify [...]

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Losing Weight Without Counting Calories

August 5, 2009

Let’s face the facts, any diet must cause an energy imbalance for someone to be able to lose weight. In other words, there must be a caloric deficit present. Other conditions are detailed in the article “Fundamental Conditions for any Fat Loss Diet Attempt” In this post, I talk about creating a caloric deficit in [...]

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Basics of Nutrition – the very short version

July 17, 2009

Alright, this is going to be the crash course necessary for any further discussion in this topic. It is the bare minimum that one needs to know about nutrition. Though it is the very short version, it probably isn’t classified as a short blog post. If you want the long version, just pick up any [...]

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My take on fast food and why it isn’t all bad

July 16, 2009

Well, I guess that you can see from the picture that I am not a big fan of fast foods, but it isn’t for the health reasons. What the research says I would like to refer you to the article by Lyle MacDonald titled “Hormonal Responses to a Fast Food Meal Compared with Nutritionally Comparable [...]

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