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 realise is that sugar is often listed under different names, such as cane juice, coconut crystals, organic agave nectar syrup, fructose, etc.
Foods that say, fat free, sugar free, high fiber, organic, and gluten-free can still make you fat, and because these products appear healthy, they’re often easier to rationalise eating in excess. What is frustrating is they don’t do anything other than give the consumer the impression that they’re being good dieters. Foods such as, Slim Fast, Special-K protein shakes and protein cereal, Weetabix protein cereal, Kind Bars, Fiber One “protein” bars and pretty much all cereal bars are just junk food masquerading as healthy options.
Anyone looking for protein at the supermarket should stick with meat and eggs, and then get their fiber from veggies.
Here’s the thing, I live in a social media bubble where I surround myself with women lifting weights, getting strong and generally being freaking badass human beings. Yet when I walk into most gyms, this isn’t exactly what I’m seeing.
Elevate your conditioning with well-designed circuits. Far too many routines throw together exercises haphazardly, creating unbalanced fatigue and overwhelming recovery demands. It’s about strategic selection and smart planning—ensuring each session builds you up without burning you out.
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.
It’s a common misconception that exercise must be long to be effective. This usually aligns with the notion that exercise is all about calories burned.
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