Layne Norton, PhD nutritional sciences, wrote in his book: “My father lost 30 pounds on a ketogenic diet, then added back 60 pounds because he couldn’t sustain the diet for more than four months. Once he went back to eating “normally,” he rapidly packed the pounds back on.” That is…

You are in the gym, you look around at people, one of them is scrolling Instagram feed for five hours, another one is doing the stupidest exercise in the universe — burpees, another one is openly vomiting after completing four sets of Bulgarian split squats, and another one is just……

Some guy on Twitter said intermittent fasting causes magical effects and leads to greater weight loss compared to the daily calorie restriction? Bad news — a new study added more evidence that intermittent fasting is no better than the daily calorie restriction [bite me, Twitter zealot]. Liu et al. randomized…

When you are trying to lose weight the idea of “oh I’m training today so I’ll have more calories but tomorrow I’m not gonna train so I’ll eat fewer calories” seems plausible. …

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…

Fat loss is already a whole lot of not fun. But trying to lose stubborn fat is even worse. Kinda like shoving a long spear from the Middle Ages through your body that really isn’t supposed to have a long spear shoved into it.

Amino acids from protein that you eat are the “building blocks” of the new muscle. So to speak. Of the 20 amino acids, only three contain a branched side chain: leucine, isoleucine, and valine. …

I’ve been at this whole fitness thing for over 11 years now so I’ve got to tell you a few fitness and nutrition strategies for a successful fitness journey. Beware that I don’t remember many details of my own fitness journey because a ridiculous amount of alcohol has been consumed…

For some fucked-up reason (thank you, keto zealots) people believe this is what happens when they eat carbohydrates: