Dieting And Weight Loss; It's Time To Face The Facts

Real talk though; we need to face the facts about dieting for weight loss. On any specific approach over the long term, more people are unsuccessful than are successful. On all approaches combined, more people are unsuccessful than are successful. However... while successful outcomes are the minority, they are not exclusive to any specific approach....

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The Latest On Weight Loss, According To Science And My Observations

As fate would have it, quite a few interesting articles regarding research related to weight loss have come out in the past few weeks since I posted my "why we  should probably all stop offering weight loss coaching" article of a few weeks ago. Now, unfortunately the...

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How Caloric Over-Restriction Makes Binge Eating Inevitable.

Just a little something I’ve been working on. Here’s the thing with caloric deficits and binge eating.  I put these numbers together as a hypothetical case study on a female of average height and a certain undisclosed age. Suffice it to say, if you’re taller than...

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Contrary to popular belief, a caloric deficit does not guarantee fat loss.

I know, I know; I'm like a broken record at the moment and I have written more posts on this exact topic over the past few years than I can even keep track of. Good though, sometimes you need hear things a few times before they really sink in. Especially when it's different...

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Why you failed to see results with your last IIFYM plan.

Even though I have some new followers I’m going to go ahead and assume everyone knows what “IIFYM” means, feel free to ask if you require clarification. If you’ve done some form of an IIFYM approach in the past and found you couldn’t stick to it or it didn’t work, I’m...

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Ending the unhealthy obsession with calorie deficit.

Always take a selfie. I'll try to make this as clear as I can. Calories In / Calories Out is definitely a thing, but people need to STOP worshiping this idea about "calorific deficit", because it's stupid. Now, don't get me wrong... and in fact I'll address this pre-emptively...

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Your coach only *thinks* he or she is doing IIFYM.

Well, maybe not your coach. Hopefully your coach is great. Maybe I’m your coach or someone I’m friends with is. There are a few good ones out there, but for the most part I see a lot of people appointing themselves coaches and entirely butchering the concept of IIFYM. The difference between how I do things with my Flexible Fueling strategy vs...

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I don't do meal plans. I do Custom Flexible Dieting Guidelines.

Pretty average photo from training yesterday. I thought my shoulders were looking good though. I just don't, and I won't no matter how much someone asks or how much they offer to pay me. I just don't feel comfortable telling other people what to eat. The idea stresses me...

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