Archive | July, 2011

Why Sugar is Kicking Our Asses

Whenever I tell my clients not to consume anything with more than 5 grams of unnatural sugar they naturally agree with me (because they know I know what’s up). But after stalking them on loseit.com, I find that they are still consuming too much sugar. Getting people to really understand what is healthy and what [...]

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The One Sided Beatdown of Natural Sugars Over Processed Sugars

In this corner… Fighting out of Manhattan… Standing at 6 Feet 5 inches tall… Weighing in at 200 pounds of ripped lean muscle mass… The highly functioning, packed with long lasting energy, premium human fuel, NATURAL SUGAR! Complex sugars are broken down in a regulated and controlled manner in your body. They are found in [...]

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How Many Calories Should YOU Eat Per Day?

How many calories should you be consuming per day? I get asked this question by pretty much all my clients and friends. I always check in with my man Harris for the answer! Harris-Benedict Equation: Women: BMR = 655 + ( 4.35 x weight in pounds ) + ( 4.7 x height in inches ) [...]

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9 Questions You Should Be Able to Answer if Serious About Changing Your Lifestyle

Please copy and paste the questions below into a private document you can write freely in. These answers are for your eyes only.   1. Would you describe your relationship with food as a functional or dysfunctional one? Whatever your answer, elaborate why you think it’s that way. 2. When do you think you first [...]

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When Drinking Alcohol is Inevitible

If you are serious about training, whether it’s bulking up or losing weight, you should avoid drinking. When you drink, the serotonin levels in your brain are offset and you deplete your body of amino acids, vitamins, and minerals. Have you ever tried to exercise hungover? Forget it! You’ll be sleepy, sluggish, and irritable. However, [...]

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The Not So Secret Formula to Weight Loss: Eat Less. Move More.

You know this. I know you know this. The one and only way to lose weight is to be in a caloric deficit by the time you go to sleep every night. In order to do that, you must burn more calories than you consume. This is going to be really hard to do if [...]

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Carbs: the Freddy Krueger Approved Night Snack

If Freddy Krueger was a nutritionist, he’d tell his clients to binge eat on bagels before bed. Why? Because he’d want to sabotage the hard work they’ve put in all day. Then, he’d taunt them in their dreams for negating everything they’ve worked so hard for. Fortunately, I don’t subscribe to the Freddy Krueger School [...]

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When and How to do Cardio

Your heart has been working since the second you were born, and will be working hard until the day you die. So, the least we can do is give your heart an easier job to do by strengthening it!   If you don’t care about your heart, at least do cardio for the psychological benefits! [...]

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Protein Advice For 99.9% of the World

Hi there. Are you a professional Power Lifter? Are you a heavyweight MMA fighter who has a championship fight coming up? Are you competing for the Strong Man/Woman award? No? So why are you stressing out about your protein intake? You know who needs to monitor their protein intake to make absolutely certain they are [...]

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