The concept of the Reverse Taper Diet is still one of my favorite ideas. Without getting too technical, the concept is that you should be in your largest calorie deficit (eating the least amount of food) at the beginning of your diet, when you have the most fat to lose and thus the most fat available to be used as a fuel. Then, as you slowly lose fat you also slowly up your … [Read more...] about Reverse Taper Intermittent Fasting
Weight Loss
Flat Belly Forever
I’d like to introduce you to Flat Belly Forever. It’s a new book, research conducted by me, that attempts to answer to the question: Why can two people in a controlled research study eat very close to the same amount of food, do very close to the same amount of exercise yet lose radically different amounts of weight? For a long time my answer to this question … [Read more...] about Flat Belly Forever
The Dangers of Metabolic Adaptation
The concept of metabolic adaption is scary to me. Not because it's right or wrong, but because it's often prescribed to dieters without any examination. People are told that if they have been dieting for a long period of time and are now having problems losing weight, then their hormone levels have been compromised by all the dieting and therefore they must 'eat … [Read more...] about The Dangers of Metabolic Adaptation
Building Muscle Slowly
This post was created simply because I was feeling sorry for myself this morning. I wasn't making any gains. Lifting weights was stupid. All I was doing was maintaining - complete waste of my time. (Yes, I was being a baby) So I took my measurements... then compared them to all of my older measurements. At first, it looked like I had confirmed my suspicion - no growth … [Read more...] about Building Muscle Slowly
The truth about Calorie Deficits
By the strictest of definitions a calorie deficit means 'any amount of calories that falls short of the amount of calories needed to fuel the energy needs of your body'. Or, put another way: A calorie deficit is any amount of calories that is unable to maintain a persons body mass. A calorie deficit is ANY amount of food that results in loss of body mass. By this … [Read more...] about The truth about Calorie Deficits