If you’ve ever set out to improve your health or lose weight through making changes to your eating habits, chances are you’ve heard one of these two phrases: “It’s not a diet, it’s a lifestyle” “Diets don’t work” I understand that these two … [Read more...]

Have you ever felt like a failure? Your weight isn’t budging. Your strength has plateaued. Your health still sucks. You feel like you are doing everything right, but you just aren’t seeing any changes. Hell, maybe you feel like you’re … [Read more...]

Have you ever given up on your eating habits because you felt deprived, or restricted? Have you ever felt like an outcast, or embarrassed at family or social functions, because you have to explain that you “can’t” eat something? You don’t have … [Read more...]

Did you know that we eat for reasons other than physical hunger - that is, reasons other than to provide our bodies the protein, fat, vitamins, and minerals they require? Shocker, I know. I probably didn’t need to tell you that. Seriously, … [Read more...]

Our efforts to be leaner, stronger, and healthier are often driven by rules. We expect that so long as we follow the rules, our bodies will change for the better. We put our height, weight, age, and sex into an online calculator and – so long … [Read more...]

How many times have you been cruising along, nailing your new diet or training strategy - your meals on point, crushing your workouts, making good progress… And then something comes up that throws a little kink in your plans? You’re at a dinner … [Read more...]

When we first learn to ride a bike, we don’t enter the Tour De France and then beat ourselves up for not winning. We start with training wheels, and then slowly transition to free riding as our confidence and balance improve. When we first … [Read more...]

So many times it’s not that we don’t know what to do to lose fat, get stronger, and improve our health. We know that there is no “one size fits all” solution – as much as fitness marketers want us to believe that this is the case, and that their … [Read more...]

The only way to create sustainable change in our bodies is to create sustainable change in our habits, our behaviors, and even our parts of our identities. We know this. We know that our health and fitness are reflections of our lifestyles, and … [Read more...]

When you close your eyes and imagine what life looks like once you’ve reached your goal weight, chances are you don’t think to yourself… “Thank God there’s less gravitational attraction between the Earth and myself.”. When you picture what your … [Read more...]