Category: Nutrition
Low Calorie Foods That Fill You Up
When you think about hunger, what comes to mind? Pain in your abdomen or a growling stomach? Maybe hunger shows up as mental fog and fatigue. To be honest, the...
How To Use A TDEE and BMR Calculator To Lose Weight
How To Use TDEE and BMR Calculator To Lose Weight BMR (Basal Metabolic Rate) and TDEE (Total Daily Energy Expenditure) Calculators live ALL over the web nowadays. We have one...
How To Change Your Behaviors and Lose More Weight
We appear to be going about health and weight loss all wrong. As nutrition coaches, we’re often seen as contributors to diet culture because a lot of our clients come...
Metabolic Adaptation: Why Dieting Slows Down Your Metabolism & How To Fix It
Metabolic adaptation has many names. It is referred to as “starvation mode” or “metabolic damage” and is often called adaptive thermogenesis in the scientific literature. This makes it difficult to...
What Happens If You Eat Too Much Protein? (More Protein = More Fat Loss…)
What is Protein Overfeeding? Protein overfeeding, commonly known as over-eating protein to the everyday individual, is using protein as the main or sole component of a surplus in calories. This...
Keto: The Best or The Worst Diet For Fat Loss?
A recent study showed that keto doesn’t work like many people once thought it did… But before any Ketogenic readers see this and bash me with hate mail, keep reading....
Artificial Sweeteners: Good or Bad? Diet Help or Danger?
Artificial sweeteners were created to make food taste better without adding calories. Some of the most used artificial sweeteners are saccharin, aspartame, and sucralose. There are a few key terms...
The G-Flux Theory: Eat More, Move More, Burn More…?
Our bodies are remarkable at adapting to different stimuli that we can then manipulate to produce different results. This allows us to set goals for ourselves and create lasting change....
What is the easiest diet to stay on?
Over 15-million google searches tells us that this is one of the most commonly asked questions in regards to dieting; What is the easiest diet to follow? And I completely...
What Does Your Body Store As Fat Easiest? Carbs vs. Fats
Is it harder for the body to store carbs as fat, than it is to store fat as fat? Total daily energy intake and expenditure dictate whether we store energy...
Is Flexible Dieting Good For Weight Loss? IIFYM vs. Meal Plans
Is Flexible or Rigid Dieting Better For Weight Loss? People who use a flexible diet focus on the overall calories and macronutrients while manipulating food choices to meet their nutrition...
How Much Protein Can You Absorb In One Meal?
What Does “Protein Absorption” Mean…? From a nutritional view, absorption describes the passage of nutrients from the gut into systemic circulation. When people ask about absorbing protein they are usually...