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October Challenge
Are you ready for a challenge? Our October Challenge has you monitoring your lifestyle habits and making sure you are doing them all so you can be happier and healthier!
How to Use Our Brain to Get Weight Loss Success
While your evolved brain is active, plan your meals in a logical way, taking into account your long term goals. The same can apply to your workouts. Plan your workouts, or your workout schedule, ahead of time and DO NOT DEVIATE FROM THE PLAN. If you wait until you are hungry to decide what to eat your stress response kicks in, your primal brain takes over and it is virtually impossible to make a good decision; If you wait until you feel motivated to workout you just won’t…
Resistance Training and Fat Loss
I wrote about a landmark study that reveals the truth of an aging metabolism…and it wasn’t what most of us expected. For those of us that have gained weight over the years and blamed it on the inevitability of a slowing metabolism due to aging it wasn’t the best news. But the good news is, there is something you can do about it.
The Truth About Middle Age Spread
We wax nostalgic about the days we could eat anything and not gain a pound. Those were days right??
According to a landmark study published last week in Science, I’m sorry to say, age is not to be blamed, nor is a slowing metabolism, unless you are well over the age of 60. Apparently being a woman and in menopause is also not a legitimate excuse anymore for later in life weight gain. Whaaat?!?
Is Breakfast Still the Most Important Meal of the Day?
Is breakfast still the most important meal of the day? Unless you are hungry, you may not have to rush to the table. If you are over a certain age, there is one thing about nutrition that you know is without a doubt true. Whatever you were taught a decade ago, is no longer relevant today and that chances are, whatever you were taught yesterday, will probably be refuted tomorrow. There isn’t much out there that someone doesn’t have a beef with…well, except vegetables and water, most people believe in the health promoting quality of vegetables and water.
How to Achieve Metabolic Flexibility
Being flexible comes in handy in all sorts of situations. Your favourite gym is shut down due to a government wide lockdown? Go online with their incredible trainers until you can see them in person again. Took a wrong turn while driving? Simply find another route
Your body’s metabolism benefits from being flexible, too. Rather than only being able to use carbohydrates or fat for energy, a flexible metabolism can switch between both with ease. This state is called metabolic flexibility, and there are a host of different reasons why improving your ability to utilize multiple fuel sources can help support your overall health and wellness