Any plan you adopt or put together for someone else, needs to be appropriate to their goals and to their circumstances. If we assume that a Flexible Dieting plan covers the following bases...
Appropriate total calorie targets; not too little and not too much.
Appropriate ratio of macronutrients.
Suitable intake of vitamins and minerals from more...
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How Caloric Over-Restriction Results In Binge Eating.
Recent blog entry on the subject..
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Calories In, Calories Out: Maintenance Or Plateau?
Contrary to popular belief, not seeing progress in your condition goals does not automically infer that you are "at maintenance" and need to cut calories further.
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If you don't want to cut, you have to bulk. Right?
Garbage. There are much more intelligent options availabe to you.
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You Can't Out Train A Bad Diet, Right?
Nope, that's garbage! We really need to end the notion that athletic condition is associated with food avoidance. Nothing could be further from the truth.
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The Latest In Weight Loss, According To Science.
unfortunately the fact remains that long term success with weight loss goals is a statistically unlikely outcome, but don't give up hope just yet.
The perfect plan for weight loss and body sculpting.
As you all know by now I am a promoter of Flexible Dieting also known as IIFYM. I've started using the term "flexible dieting" as it implies "meet all of your nutritional needs with your choice of foods". IIFYM means exactly the same thing, but since the acronym stands for "If It Fits Your Macros" it leads to having reducto ad absurdum type arguments...
12 week starve yourself thin challenge?
So one of the boys from gym had a good story today about doing some security work at a gala dinner for participants in a "12 week challenge" run by one of the chain gyms.
Sounds like this'll be a nice positive post, right? Wrong.
He apparently asked one of the more successful participants how they did it, and the response was "1100 calories one day,...