Eating less is about the quantity of food you’re eating. Restriction is about a feeling.
You absolutely can eat less without feeling restricted.
This is a very important distinction because so many people in the … Read more
If you like carbs, then stop cutting them out of your diet
Nobody is taking away my daily nighttime cereal. It will stay in my diet regardless of what my goals are.
Why? Because I like it. It makes eating more enjoyable. It keeps me from feeling restricted and deprived. And … Read more
An open letter to the body positive community
I love you guys.
You’ve made huge strides towards helping people accept themselves just as they are.
You’re putting an end to people feeling like they have to lose weight to improve their self worth.
You’re helping … Read more
The best exercise to lose weight is the one you’re actually going to do
It’s not bodyweight HIIT workouts.
It’s not weight lifting.
It’s not some BS thigh gap creating workout you found on Pinterest.
It’s not a kettlebell workout.
It’s not sprinting, long-distance running, or anything … Read more
Eating less should be a natural side effect of an improved relationship with food
There are a lot of different ways to eat less.
Most people take the outside-in approach of forced calorie restriction. They decide how many calories to eat and then just try to eat at that intake. Their relationship … Read more
Someone shamed me for wanting to change my body
Last week I shared a progress update on my physique change goals and I got an email from someone that really irritated me.
She gave me a lecture about how what I said was out of alignment with what I normally talk about. … Read more
If exercise couldn’t change your physical appearance would you still do it?
I like these questions because it helps you explore your motivations for taking action. In this case, it helps you understand why you might be struggling with exercise consistency.
To be clear – there is … Read more
Your body doesn’t care about your physique goals
Your intention for how you want your body to look doesn’t overpower your body’s biology, psychology, and needs.
I get that you have this image in your mind of how you want to look. It very well might be a reasonable … Read more
Try fueling your body for performance instead of underfeeding it for weight loss
Most people spend the majority of their life in a semi-starved state with short periods of unintentional overfeeding mixed in.
This is what you call yo-yo dieting – constant efforts to lose weight followed … Read more
Focus less on the details of your weight loss and more on executing the fundamentals
You’re not going to solve a big struggle by focusing on the small details. Yes, details matter, but they are the 80% of things people usually focus their time and energy on that net them just 20% of their results.
Details … Read more