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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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Lose 10lbs in 12hrs

June 23, 2010
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Here is a simple 3-step protocol to lose 10lbs in 12hours, guaranteed. Step 1: Do some depletion training Head over to the gym and do 5 sets of 20 reps for each major muscle group. Shoulders, chest, back, arms, legs, abs -  feel the burn! Step 2: Go back home and instead of eating anything, [...]

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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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Being Fat is Your Fault

June 2, 2010
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The people who admit to that simple fact are the only ones who even stand a chance.

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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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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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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
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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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