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Gentle Diet Reminders: Get Hassled – For Free!

January 4, 2008

Are you the type of person who’s not a self-starter? Do you need someone breathing down your neck, constant reminding, a push to get the ball rolling?
For clients who’d chronically forget to eat, miss workouts, or not drink their water, I used to suggest creating an “event” in Outlook (if that’s what you use [...]

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Don’t Exercise To Lose Fat.

December 27, 2007

Dr. Eades had a nice post today on his blog about the Gina Kolata article I blogged on last week.  What was Dr. Eades’ summary statement?
Exercise because it’s good for you: it builds muscle mass, it makes you stronger, it improves bone density, etc. But eat fewer carbs to lose weight.
Does this sound familiar?  Like perhaps you’ve [...]

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Calories Don’t Count. Not in Exerciseland.

December 20, 2007

Today’s New York Times:
Putting Very Little Weight in Calorie Counting Methods.
Gina Kolata goes on to describe how the so-called science of assessing your caloric expenditure (or more precisely, how the hamster wheels at your local New York Sports Club calculate calories burned) is far from scientific.
From my days as an undergrad in the Exercise Science [...]

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Tabula Rasa and Better Choices.

November 19, 2007

One particularly nefarious method of self-sabotage is to say to yourself, “Well, looks like I blew my diet today; might as well forget about it and try again tomorrow.”
Realize that every meal, every feeding is opportunity for tabula rasa – that even if you screw up one meal, while you can’t “make up” for that [...]

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Trench Warfare – Studies vs. “Results.”

November 17, 2007

What’s more important – theory or practice?
Just because it “works on paper”, does it “work?” And just because “it works”, does it “work?”
Just what the heck am I talking about?
I’m referring to the so-called Diet Debate on CNN’s The Larry King Show that Gary Taubes, Mehmet Oz, Jillian Michaels, and Andrew Weil engaged in. [...]

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Dinner…For Breakfast?

October 25, 2007

What do you eat for breakfast if you’re on a low-carb regimen and you don’t like eggs?
One of the biggest sticking points on a diet comes when you run out of quick but tasty breakfast ideas. After all, who has the time in the morning to bake a quiche, and how many days in a [...]

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Eating on the Run – and a Solution.

October 10, 2007

So it happened to you again; through circumstances out of your control, you’re being pulled in a thousand different directions, everyone urgently needs your attention, and before you know it it’s time for lunch and you’ve only got 5 minutes to eat and run.
What do you eat?
If you’ve got a ready answer, then kudos to [...]

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You Can’t Outrun a Crappy Diet.

September 25, 2007

Every once in awhile, if you consume enough media, you’ll come across a real gem of an article.
Gary Taubes writes about how exercise doesn’t make you thinner – and how that myth came to be:
“The Scientist and the Stairmaster”
Ahh…the sweet taste of vindication. His insight might be old-hat if you’re already familiar with the [...]

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Beware the "Big Four!"

September 18, 2007

One small dietary change you can make that will have dramatic impact on your health is to eliminate the Big Four from your diet.
What are the Big Four?
The Big Four are, for most people, the four major dietary sources of insulin surges. They are the foods that, when overconsumed, cause weight gain and negatively impact [...]

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When Fat is Fat, and When It Isn’t.

September 10, 2007

I had an interesting exchange with a client on Friday.
After informing her that it’d be a good idea to put a fat on her vegetables so the vitamins would be absorbed better:
She: “So I should put a little bit of olive oil on it, right?”
Me: “Right, or butter, or whatever fat you prefer.”
She: “I [...]

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