The big scary carbohydrate is here to ruin your diet and make you gain weight. It’s time to separate the facts from the fiction, such as why you should not cut a whole food group out of your diet and why we need carbs.
Fat loss and weight loss are terms often used interchangeably but mean very different things because the overall weight of the human body is complex.
The Fat Loss Equation The Fat Loss Equation – Energy Balance Explained . Energy balance is a fairly simple concept. Calories in versus calories out. More specifically, if you want to reduce total body weight you must create a situation where energy intake is lower than the total amount of energy required by the body …
Do vegans need to take a creatine suppliment With a growing number of health conscious people either making the switch to being vegan or eating a more plant based diet, the question of nutrient deficiencies from not eating animal produces often pops up. There is one thing making a switch to improve health but what …
No one macro-nutrient (carbs, protein or fat) is the villain when it come to body composition. Ultimately energy balance (energy in vs energy out) is still key. We’ve seen a switch away from fats being bad to fats being good, which is great as having fats in the diet is important. It is also valuable …
Why you really shouldn’t cut out carbs What’s always interesting is that if are to ask almost anyone on the street “how do you lose weight” a very large percentage will say “cut out carbs”, and as a trainer, we hear it all the time. Since the Atkins era of the late 90s, the low …
I generally find when someone focuses too hard on the result of fat loss they naturally tend to undernourish on the days that they exercise by eating too “clean”. I understand the logic behind it, you’ve trained hard so you want to eat well and have the salad without the dressing and snack on a …
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Most of you will have heard the expression “you are what you eat” but just as you’ve got used to saying it, the experts have gone and changed it. So you are now “what you eat, breakdown, digest and absorb”. Mainstream media is really starting to pick up on the benefits of good gut health and …
Stop eating fake foods When health conscious people hear that they need to add more protein or fibre to their diets, many will go to the supermarket and load up on pre made packaged foods. More often than not, these fake health foods are loaded with sugar, e-numbers and chemical stabilising agents. What many people don’t …
What you can learn from Intermittent Fasting Firstly I have to hold my hands up and admit that it took me a long time to come round to trying intermittent fasting. Like most personal trainers i’ve been raised on the understanding that we should eat 3-6 equal sized meals evenly spread out throughout the day. …
