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What to Expect When Eating Maintenance Calories

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Welcome back to part 3 of this series on eating at maintenance calories. By this point you should have a decent estimate of your maintenance calorie requirements as well as some flexible macronutrient targets to […]

How to Estimate your Maintenance Calorie Requirements – Macronutrients

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This is part 2 of my series on estimating your maintenance calories. By this point you should have a number on hand for how many calories you need to be eating per day. If you […]

How To Calculate Your Maintenance Calorie Requirements

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This article is long overdue, and admittedly a welcome distraction from finishing my ebook on Creatine Monohydrate. Though this has some self-serving motives, it is something I have long wanted to do for my readers […]

Intermittent Fasting/Restricted Eating Windows: A Word of Caution for Active Women

Intermittent Fasting/Restricted Eating Windows: A Word of Caution for Active Women

Intermittent fasting (IF), the act of abstaining from eating for a certain period in the day (or for a set amount of days), is another approach to eating that has risen in popularity for the purpose of weight management. When it comes to managing […]

Why I Don’t Advise Avoiding Trigger Foods and How I Dealt with Binge Eating

All content in this article is provided for information, enjoyment, and educational purposes only. These are my opinions and, although I will present supporting science this should not be used as a substitute for qualified medical advice. If you or someone you know is suffering from an eating disorder seek medical advice in your area […]

How Reverse Dieting Can Negatively Impact Bingeing

Disclaimer: This article is not intended as treatment advice for Binge Eating Disorder or Bulimia Nervosa.

What is reverse dieting?

Reverse dieting is a popular ‘exit strategy’ for competitors and dieters who no longer wish to diet but do not wish to re-gain weight (more specifically, body fat). The idea surfaced […]

When Clean Eating Works And How It Could Be Holding You Back

Foods that are unrefined and minimally processed have been put upon a pedestal and termed as ‘clean food’. In some ways this is absolutely deserved. Fruits, vegetables, unprocessed meat, whole grains etc all fall under the clean eating umbrella and even someone with little knowledge of nutrition knows that eating nutrient dense foods is beneficial […]

Food Anxiety: How Do I Overcome My Food Anxiety?

I began this series on how food anxieties are born and strengthened and addressed how your outlook on food could be cultivating these fears. For some, a little reassurance of the absurdity of certain attitudes towards food can go a long way to weaken these fears. For those lucky ones it’s enough to put them […]

Black Bean Protein Brownies

Welcome to the World of Lazy Cooking

When I think of a treat brownies are not usually the first baked good that comes to mind but every time that I have one in any form I have a reoccurring, ‘Why don’t I eat these more??’ moment.

The best […]

Fit ‘Lil Protein Cookie – Peanut Oatmeal Cookie

Welcome to the world of lazy cooking!

Today’s recipe is the ultimate in terms of ‘lazy cooking’. I received a request from a lovely lady asking for a protein cookie recipe. Happily I accepted the challenge but then it dawned on me why I rarely make cookies in the first […]