Sometimes it's easy to forget why we do the things we do. And it's also easy to forget what's important. With Fasting, it's not the hormonal stuff that's the most important. It's the mental part. For fasting to work it must be associated with positive reinforcement. When you finish a 24 hour fast, you should feel really good. Because you finished. You … [Read more...] about Fasting Advice (Must Read for the Holidays)
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High Metabolism ReThink
This is one of those 'thinking out loud posts' And today I'm thinking about metabolism. It kind of dawned on me today that things that increase our metabolic rates are most likely stressors or irritants. Things like the components in green tea (EGCG) are able to minimally increase our metabolic rates...most likely because they are stressing or irritating our … [Read more...] about High Metabolism ReThink
Do you have to eat clean to get lean?
Clipped from: johnbarban.com (share this clip) via s.tt For some people, spending 4 months eating nothing but egg whites, chicken breasts and broccoli is easy. For the rest of us it's good to know that you don't HAVE to go to such extremes to get lean. As John Barban (Adoniseffect.com) illustrates in this post...a donut a day can still be fit into a lifestyle that gets you … [Read more...] about Do you have to eat clean to get lean?
Defeating the Sloth
Apparently my last blog post resonated with a lot of people. The Sloth. The weird, unseen gravitational force that keeps you on the couch even though you know you should be working out. The internal dialogue that allows you to just 'eat' when you know you shouldn't. Not the one that says "go for it, you can burn it off later", or "you haven't eaten that much today, you … [Read more...] about Defeating the Sloth
HyperMetabolism (Video)
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