Is Bread Fattening? No. Bread Haters Are Just HANGRY
Is bread fattening? Not unless you eat too much of it. Is bread bad for you? Not unless you've got a food intolerance or digestion issue. No reason to hate on bread. The truth [...]
20 Sleep Habits For Weight Loss And Muscle Growth
Not losing fat? Not gaining muscle? Thinking you need a new diet? Different training plan? Well, hang on. First, how's your sleep? Poor sleep hygiene and sleep deprivation can stop fat loss and muscle growth dead in its tracks. Here is the ultimate checklist of the top 20 tips for better muscle-building, fat-burning sleep, according to science
Is It Ever Safe To Cut Calories More Aggressively To Burn Fat Faster?
You're losing fat too slow. You want to burn fat faster. However, you've heard cutting calories too much kills your metabolism, tanks your hormones and makes you miserable. But you see people cut calories lower than they're supposed to, they get ripped abs, and they don't seem worse off for it. What gives?
The Science And Practice Of Carb Cycling For Fat Loss
I get lots of questions about carb cycling for fat loss. That's not surprising because I've been recommending carb cycling for bodybuilding since the 1990s. I wrote about using it for fat loss in [...]
Bigger Breakfast, Better Metabolism?
It was once fashionable in the diet industry to suggest things such as “Eat breakfast like a king, eat lunch like a prince, and eat dinner like a pauper” or [...]
Is Spot Reduction Of Body Fat Possible After All? (What The Latest Science Says)
Spot reduction of body fat is the theory that you can burn fat preferentially from one area of the body by doing exercises which target that specific spot. The most common [...]
Losing Weight Slowly Helps You Keep It Off Better: Fact Or Myth?
Losing weight slowly is better for you, right? Everyone knows that losing weight faster does bad things to your body and increases the chances of weight regain, right? Maybe. But maybe not. If [...]
Do Keto Diets Work? Yes, But I Still Don’t Recommend Them (Here’s Why)
Diet popularity comes and goes in cycles. The ketogenic diet - aka "keto" - has re surged in popularity to a high point I have not seen seen in 25 years. Keto and other [...]
50 More Random Thoughts on Fat Loss And Fitness
Vancouver personal trainer Mike Howard is back with 50 more amazing fat loss and fitness tips. His first 50 tips were a sensation here on the Burn the Fat Blog and he may have [...]
Why Glycemic Index Diets Probably Won’t Help With Fat Loss
Have you ever been told that to lose weight, you should eat low glycemic index (GI) or (supposedly better) low glycemic load (GL) foods? Or, did you ever read that [...]