UPDATE: I NO LONGER ENDORSE INTERMITTENT FASTING AS A WEIGHT LOSS TECHNIQUE.  PLEASE SEE HERE.

Please excuse the quality, and some of my asides, this was pulled down from a Facebook live video I did.

So I kinda completely fell off the bandwagon in terms of my weight loss (something I struggle with here), but thanks to a bet with a friend, I am recommitting to the goal.  Over the next ten and a half weeks, I committed to losing twenty pounds, while he committed to gaining ten.  (Here’s the link to follow our progress).  So over the next few weeks you will see articles focusing both on how to lose weight, and also on how to gain weight.  I’ll be exploring a few different topics from both of these perspectives and so I hope you are excited.

I personally have always found difficulty in working up the motivation to consistently do any kind of cardiovascular exercise, and always found it much easier to work in the weight room.  For much of my life I was under the impression that in order to lose any significant amount of weight cardiovascular exercise was what you should be doing.  We have already looked at one alternative to tradional endurance cardio.  However, I always wondered whether or not focusing exclusively on weightlifting could be a useful tactic for weight loss. Continue reading “Busting the Myth of Muscular Metabolism” →

Now stay with me.  I know many of you read that title and immediately felt your legs start to cramp.  As always here we are looking for the greatest results we can get with the smallest amount of work.  What I’m going to show you here is a way to get huge benefits from exercise in a tiny fraction of the amount of time. Continue reading “90 Seconds of Cardio for Weight Loss” →

Wheat Belly by William Davis MD is a popular diet book in which he advocates for a diet free of wheat and some similar grains.  Dr. William Davis MD is a preventive cardiologist who over many years of his work and his own experience often found an improvement in his own and patient’s health with the removal of wheat.  He observed that for him, following the recommendations to consume more whole-grains resulted in torpor and weight gain,.  Once he removed the wheat from his diet he found that he had more energy, and very quickly lost the weight.  This was a telling moment for him, because it was when he started to question the established recommendations and consider alternative diet options. Continue reading “Wheat Belly Review” →

Saturated fats are one of the most vilified dietary compounds in America.  Almost every single organization recommends that you should reduce your saturated fat consumption.  This belief originated in the famous Seven Countries Study by Dr, Keys, where by looking at the diets of seven countries and there fat content, and plotting against mortality he found an association between fat and mortality (Keys, Menotti and Karvoven).  His data suggested that increased consumption of saturated fats was strongly and significantly associated with  death.  However there have been criticisms from many scientists who have found flaws in his methodology and data analysis.  They found that either sugar consumption or exercise were a much  better predictor for mortality. Continue reading “Saturated Fats: The Villain We’ve Been Promised?” →

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Hypnosis always seemed to me like a quack technique.  I was very skeptical that it would have any place as a scientifically founded weight loss technique.  However, there is some intriguing research into hypnosis as a weight loss tool. Continue reading “Hypnosis: An Effective Weight Loss Tool?” →

This week there my trend line decreased by 4.1 lbs. (here)  This is significantly over what is generally recognized as a sustainable amount to lose so next week we should expect the rate to decrease and the overall grph to level out a little bit. Continue reading “Weight Loss Update” →