Cheat Meals: Are You Doing Them All Wrong?
Cheat meals have always been a hot topic. After all, who wouldn’t want to learn how to eat pizza or cheesecake and burn more fat? Unfortunately, despite years of discussion and debate about the best [...]
If It Fits Your Macros (IIFYM): The Pop Tart Diet Revisited
IIFYM is an acronym for, "If it Fits Your Macros." "Macros" of course, is shorthand for macronutrients - protein, carbohydrates and fats. What does this have to do with Pop Tarts? Keep reading and you'll find out.
Saturated Fats:Villain, Hero, Or No Big Deal?
For anyone who hasn’t been keeping up with all the posts here at Burn the Fat Blog, the team at Examine.com wrote our “most liked’ post ever a few months [...]
The Shaming of Food
Are We Fighting The Wrong Battle? And are we losing in the war? It is a war. We face that war daily in our facebook feeds, during our talks with friends over coffee, and while [...]
The How Many Calories Should I Eat Cheat Sheet
I admit, sometimes I take certain nutrition facts for granted. Probably because I’m so close to this subject and I’ve been a coach and practitioner for years. I realized this a while back when [...]
The 19 Most Important Fat Loss, Fitness And Health Tips, Ever
If an exercise physiologist, award-winning fitness bootcamp trainer and registered dietician to the pro athletes and stars were asked by his clients, “what are your MOST IMPORTANT tips, EVER, for burning fat and getting in [...]
10 Biggest Body Transformation Mistakes
They say “success leaves clues.” I’ve always liked that quote, which I first heard from Anthony Robbins, and which I’ve heard re-quoted by many others over the years. Unfortunately, most people don’t follow the advice [...]
Nutrition Professor Loses 27 Pounds on Twinkie Diet: What Should We Make of It?
The most controversial weight loss story on the web in recent years: Mark Haub, a nutrition professor from Kansas State University, lost 27 pounds in 10 weeks on a “convenience store diet” with at least [...]
The See-Food, Reach-Food Diet
You’ve heard of the “See-Food” diet haven’t you? No, that’s not the diet where you load up on fish, lobster, crab and mussels. The See-Food Diet is the one that so many of us crack [...]
Calorie Counting vs Intuitive Eating (How To Go From Calorie Clueless To Calorie Competent)
Why is it that any time you hear the words “calorie counting” or “food journaling”, people start running for the hills? If creating meal plans, counting calories and keeping a food journal are research-proven, effective [...]