Trying to lose weight and take off excess fat? Nutrition plays a pivotal role in prepping the body for success with any weight/fat loss efforts because it has a large influence over hormonal status. Hormones rule. If your hormones are messed up, you can be sure you’ll be climbing a steep hill in your [...]
Trying to lose excess weight/fat but struggling to find the "working formula?" Long term success managing your weight starts with the right approach. Your goal should be to lose body fat without losing muscle tissue or sacrificing your health in the process. There are a few dynamic principles that you’ll need to adhere to in order [...]
Just because we live in the age where food is at our fingertips we think we are well fed and well nourished. Unfortunately, one does not equate into the other because many of the easily obtainable and readily available foods are fast foods and convenience foods. These preserved convenience foods can sit on a shelf [...]
Without a doubt, the most incredible machine ever created is the human body. Among all the amazing talents it displays, is the ability to break down the foods we eat into macro and micro nutrients so they can be reassembled and utilized. What exactly is a nutrient? Nutrients are chemical substances that come from [...]
Inside each cell within your body is a tiny structure known as mitochondria meaning “little bean.” Some cells contain thousands while other cells have none. The main function of this “little bean” is to metabolize or break down carbohydrates and fatty acids and generate energy. Mitochondria literally look like a tiny bean shaped energy [...]
Whenever you eat a meal, a complicated series of chemical reactions takes place that converts the food you eat into energy your body can use. Some of these reactions cause your body to store fat and others cause it to release fat. When it comes to fat loss, the conversion of carbohydrates into glucose [...]
Have you found yourself looking in the mirror focusing on the excess pouch you call your stomach and wondering how in the heck it got there? You are not alone. Unfortunately when most people gain weight their waistline is the first place it lands. Reversely when they are trying to lose weight, the waistline is [...]
With so many exercise and fitness options readily available these days, there really is no valid excuse (except for the rare few) not to be physically fit. Additionally, it’s no secret that resistance exercise or strength training of some sort must be included in our regimen because aerobics alone will [...]
There are a few obstacles/hurdles that must be faced when going about a new diet protocol. Ongoing hunger is one of those and a slowed metabolism (hitting the dreaded "weight-loss plateau) is another. Let's look at hunger first. While some hunger is normal incredibly strong hunger that won’t let up is not. If you constantly [...]
Sometimes the simplest solutions work the best. When it comes to staying healthy and losing fat there are many simple but effective solutions that are passed over yet when added together are powerfully effective. Because our daily habits and lifestyle actually dictate our health or lack of it, it’s all those daily habits that [...]
