How is it possible that some people are obese but appear healthy? How do we explain this seeming paradox? Can you improve your health while you're still overweight? And if you're fat but healthy, should you bother losing weight at all? Hmmm... interesting questions... and I have answers!
Winter weight gain is a problem. There are many forces conspiring to get you eating more and moving less in the cold months, and studies confirm that this leads to long-term fat gain. Fortunately, these pitfalls are avoidable and the solutions are simple.
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 [...]
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
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?
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 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 [...]
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 [...]
