Why are there so many people failing to lose and maintain weight loss? Simple: Because they focus on excluding foods that aren’t high in micronutrients aka “bad” foods instead of including foods high in micronutrients. When people decide to lose weight they do what any sane person would do: Google…

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If you want to lose weight, I’m sure more than a long life full of happiness, you’d wish for smooth weight loss. BAHAHAHAHA! No one ever, in the history of ever, lost weight without the need to adjust calorie intake at some point. Question is, when? No need to google…

In part one, I said that good coaches are not afraid to change their minds when enough evidence is presented and thus, I went over some of the nutrition things I have changed my mind on in the time I have been in the fitness industry. Let’s continue with the…

Layne Norton, PhD Nutritional Sciences, recently said: “I have been wrong many times. I will be wrong again in the future most likely. But being wrong is a beautiful thing. If I’m already right about everything, then there’s nothing I can improve upon. So being wrong is beautiful because it…

Fuck — and I mean this in all sincerity — comfort eating. Comfort/emotional/stress eating, call it however you like, usually comes from the need to feel better and results in overdosing on ultra-processed crappy foods that are high in calories, fat, sugar, and/or salt. But does comfort eating decrease stress? …

If you thought parent-teacher meetings were bad, you never had a weight loss plateau. You do everything right — eating properly and exercising at least a few times a week — but the weight just won’t budge anymore. Losing weight becomes about as horrible as it’s possible to imagine. So…

If you’ve been kicking around the fitness space for a while you’ve probably done some things you wish you hadn’t. Such as crossfitting the shit out yourself. Or eating raw bull testicles because the liver king said it’s going to make you superior to all the other earthlings. I too…

I’m awful, awful beyond words at writing introductions. So let’s move on to the main part right away. Marton et al (2020) examined the best-selling books on Google Books in the “Health and Fitness” category. They looked at the top 100 diet and nutrition-focused books. Here are the occupations of…