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Earlier this year, I posted Cringe, describing how some older posts on this blog have outdated views on nutrition and fitness. Many of those posts covered books that I read and liked at the time, but...
Read more →A while back someone asked me for my weight and diet history. I responded with the short version but needed to post the longer version. What diets have I tried and how did they work for me? This post...
Read more →Recently, I was giving the potato hack pitch to someone interested in losing weight. Like most of the times I've had this conversation, I could tell my advice would not be followed. Concepts such as...
Read more →There are endless debates on how to lose weight. I'm bored of them because people have lost weight using numerous diets: low-fat, low-carb, vegan, keto, fasting, and even a Twinkie Diet. It is the...
Read more →In the comment thread of Keto and Starvation Signals, there was a discussion of how I would approach "serious" weight loss. It was too much for a comment, so I put together this post along with...
Read more →It has been 3 years since the last edition of this post. I also have ones from 2010, 2012, 2014, and 2017. Before I get into the foods, I'll describe where I am now. I weigh 180 pounds (81.6 kg) at a...
Read more →I posted Mostly Weight Stable Regardless of Diet Part 2 this weekend. I wanted to show others that I was able to drop 40 pounds and keep it off for 4 years using both the Potato Hack and my own...
Read more →In August 2017, I posted Mostly Weight Stable Regardless of Diet where I did a deep analysis of how much I weighed going back to the start of the century. And I shared a quote from an earlier blog: >...
Read more →Earlier this month, I posted In Defense of Low Fat Dieting. Low-Fat diets have been slandered too much in recent years by the low-carb crowd. They can absolutely work, but the vast majority of...
Read more →Food prices are spiking and people are complaining. I'm not. The Peasant Diet that I designed back in 2016 not only will lean you out, you'll also save a lot of money on food. I wanted to post this...
Read more →Low carb diets can work. When you reduce the number of carbs you eat, you can absolutely lose weight. There are a few reasons. Most processed foods are higher in carbs and foods lower in carbs are...
Read more →Long-time readers of this site know that I used the Potato Hack Diet to lose weight. There are many ways to lose weight, but few succeed in permanent fat loss. Somewhere between 70% and 95% of...
Read more →After having used a 90% pesco-vegan diet to hack my lipid levels to optimal and sun/supplementation to double my Vitamin D levels in 2 months, I've been looking for my next health test, so I had to...
Read more →In the post Lipid Levels After Going 90% Pesco-Vegan Ant asked: > I’m debating whether or not to go completely plant-based or keep some fish in. What are your thoughts on going sans animal products?...
Read more →I wanted to do an updated post on getting lean and keeping the weight off. I stress the second goal as much as the first. The reason is that somewhere between 70% and 95% of people that lose weight...
Read more →The Diet Hack by Tim Steele was released today. He also wrote the definitive guide to potato dieting called The Potato Hack. The Diet Hack covers a lot more ground than just potatoes, but I wanted to...
Read more →A few years ago, I read something Precision Nutrition posted about how the people with the best and the worst physiques tend to eat the same meals over and over. It is an interesting concept to...
Read more →Some names and identifying details have been changed to protect the privacy of the individuals mentioned in this blog post. When I first arrived in Seattle, I met Erica at a local Meetup group. She...
Read more →I recently received an email asking about the best way to keep weight off after a diet. I like the question because at its root is an understanding that once you get to your ideal weight it is too...
Read more →In September, I posted Less Peasant, More Bodybuilder, which described how I was finally making progress in increasing my protein intake. I had shifted from eating lots of potatoes through the Potato...
Read more →In previous posts, I've discussed my version of the Peasant Diet. Check out How I Used the Peasant Diet to Lean Out which was posted a year ago. In that post, I covered how I used a diet of...
Read more →I've had this analogy I've been thinking about for a long time now regarding successfully losing weight and then keeping that weight off. It has to do with dogs and cats. Dogs are easier to...
Read more →It was just over a year ago that I decided I needed to lose 20-25 pounds. But before I started on my diet, I knew the challenge wasn't losing the weight, but keeping it off. That is where many people...
Read more →I was going to wait until spring before trying my first 5-day Fasting Mimicking Diet period, but I got impatient and went for it starting last Thursday. This post will cover my experience. For those...
Read more →Now that I have enough experience with gaining and losing a few pounds over the years, I wanted to assemble all the ideas that have worked and those that haven't. This list is my experience, which...
Read more →In previous posts, I've discussed my Peasant Diet. It is a way to use cheap unprocessed foods that are higher in nutritional quality to get lean or maintain a lean weight. The foods tend to be higher...
Read more →Last August I posted Using the Power of Story for Fat Loss, which I think is one of the more important posts on this site. The short version is that if we can wrap the complexities of an effective...
Read more →In December I posted Fasting Mimicking Diet Overview, which was a collection of notes I took from a podcast interview with Dr. Valter Longo. The short version of that post is that by engaging in a...
Read more →I wanted to put up a quick post explaining how I view my own weight goals. I've tried to explain this to a few people I know and I don't think I've done a good job explaining myself. Maybe if I typed...
Read more →I wanted to provide an update on my current diet. I'm stuck at 199. For reasons I explained in this post, I think it is important that I share not only when things are going well, but when they...
Read more →One of the criticisms I got regarding The Potato Hack was that once the hack ended and normal eating resumed that I'd regain the weight I lost. My critic claimed it was a lot of effort for...
Read more →This post is a collection of notes I assembled throughout this year to help me lose weight. Although you may find value in the notes below, I'm putting this post together as a reminder to myself on...
Read more →Friends that I have known for years are baffled at how I could eat a simple peasant diet. And not just because they couldn't imagine themselves eating that way, but because they've seen how much of a...
Read more →Last November, I outlined the Peasant Diet in the post Designing a Modern Peasant Diet. At that time I had the plan I needed to lose weight, but I didn't start losing weight until this March. I...
Read more →This is a continuation of my last post High Volume or High Protein Foods For Fat Loss, which made the case that high protein becomes a better strategy for fat loss than high volume as one gets...
Read more →As I explained in my previous post, I have yet to inspire a single person outside of this blog to try the Potato Hack diet. Not even for a single day. Not even for a single meal. The people that...
Read more →Yesterday I was thinking about all my conversations with people in the past two years about the Potato Hack and it struck me how those talks often mirrored the Five Stages of Grief - just like how...
Read more →A few posts ago, I tipped my hand that I have lost 20 pounds since March by changing my understanding of metabolism and using the power of story to keep me focused. Both of those posts are coming up,...
Read more →Before I cover my recent fat loss success, I first want to close the loop on The Fat Loss Bet from early 2014. Longtime readers might recall that myself and three friends entered into a bet to each...
Read more →After reading the latest post by Matt Stone titled Why Are Central Americans so Fat?, I wanted to clarify my usage of the term Peasant Diet. After discussing the high levels of obesity in Central...
Read more →During my blogging hiatus, an online feud erupted between two bloggers that I have been reading for years. It was glorious to watch. My readers probably already know Richard Nikoley from...
Read more →> UPDATE: The Potato Hack Diet by Tim Steele is now for sale on Amazon. It will answer all your questions. I highly recommend this book if you are interested in learning more about the Potato Diet....
Read more →Be sure to check out my Potato Hack Diet Best of Page. I had no plans to post my Week 1 results, but I wanted to share how things are going on the Potato Diet. For a background to this post see The...
Read more →Be sure to check out my Potato Hack Diet Best of Page. Earlier this month I posted No Hunger Games - A Day of Just Boiled Potatoes. It was a trial run of two days of eating just cold boiled potatoes....
Read more →I recently saw a neat graphic on Precision Nutrition. !bulkydiet From the article Here's why you're always hungry. The article goes into why we reach satiety quicker when the volume of food in the...
Read more →I mentioned at the end of the post Food Reward and Old School Bodybuilders that I would be testing the food reward theory for myself. There are several bloggers that get hung up on the definition of...
Read more →In the post Approaching Fat Loss Like an Investor, the concept that "eating clean" can have mixed results was briefly mentioned. What does it mean to "eat clean"? In the most simple terms, it means...
Read more →In July of this year, I got a very odd email. Someone working with Dave Asprey of the Bulletproof Exec requested permission to use my testimonial for his book. > Thank you for your recent testimonial...
Read more →In mid-June, I decided to revisit the Tim Ferriss 30 in 30 experiment. The 30 in 30 refers to getting 30 grams of protein ingested within 30 minutes of waking. Doing this is supposed to help you...
Read more →Two days ago I posted Just Count Protein For Fat Loss, which theorizes that the minimum effort one needs to do to lose weight is increase protein. Get the grams you need and that should reduce...
Read more →I've been thinking a lot about low effort sustainable dieting and I've come up with an idea that I was certain someone else had figured out before, but I haven't seen it articulated anywhere. That...
Read more →I just finished reading two books on nutrition. One was excellent and the other not so much. Death By Food Pyramid !Death by Food Pyramid : How Shoddy Science, Sketchy Politics and Shady Special...
Read more →For those that don't know the background story read How I Regained the Weight I Lost, The Fat Loss Bet and The Fat Loss Side Bet. In this post, I am going to outline my plan for losing 20 pounds and...
Read more →I've started a new experiment. This time I will be testing an idea from Tim Ferriss. Upon waking I will consume 30 grams of protein within 30 minutes. In the book The 4 Hour Body, Ferriss mentions...
Read more →I wrote this post two years ago but never hit publish. It got lost in the drafts. Consider this a "lost episode". In 2010, Escape the Herd alerted me to the story of a professor who proved that fat...
Read more →Several times on my health journey I have changed my opinion on a nutrition topic. Part of the freedom I have as an individual is that I am not accountable to clients or some brand. I'll embrace an...
Read more →Judging from the comments on My Problem With “Eat Less Move More”, I think I did a poor job explaining my position on Eat Less, Move More. Let me summarize my view. 1. Calories do count. (Eat Less)...
Read more →If you do a Google search on the phrase "Eat Less Move More", it will return over 9 million results. If you listen to most health care professionals and personal trainers they will say that the only...
Read more →I just read a fascinating diet book that approaches fat loss by adjusting the body's fat set point by weakening the signal between calories and flavor. !The Shangri-La Diet: The No Hunger Eat...
Read more →I just finished reading the slimmer version of Good Calories, Bad Calories. !Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It (Borzoi Books) Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It (Borzoi Books) by Gary...
Read more →A new season means a new installment for my seasonal approach series to nutrition and fitness. Last year I was inspired to see what would happen if I altered my diet and activity based off the...
Read more →Now that spring has arrived, I want to go back and review the goals outlined in my post Winter Strategies for Nutrition and Fitness. My general thesis is that winter has the potential to be the best...
Read more →Finally finished reading it. !The 4-Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman The 4-Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and...
Read more →At the start of autumn, I posted Fall Strategies For Nutrition and Fitness, where I outlined my seasonal approach to a low-carb/paleo diet. > The premise is that our bodies have growth and repair...
Read more →The publisher of Art De Vany's book was kind enough to send me an advance copy of The New Evolution Diet to read and review. It will be released tomorrow. !The New Evolution Diet: What Our...
Read more →In 2006, I did two nutritional posts titled Cleaning Up My Diet 1 and Cleaning Up My Diet 2. Boy did I get some things wrong. Not quite a nutritional mullet, but close. Usually I attack others, such...
Read more →Earlier this week, I was having a discussion on nutrition with some friends. I disclosed my latest experiment, which is still too early to blog about at this time. The response I got was, "how lean...
Read more →The author of The Warrior Diet released a follow-up book that directly addresses estrogenic foods. !The Anti-Estrogenic Diet: How Estrogenic Foods and Chemicals Are Making You Fat and Sick The...
Read more →The Precision Nutrition site just posted a great article on fat loss lessons called Why You're Not Lean Yet. My first thought was - oh great, not another get lean list. But I really like this list...
Read more →The newest trend in nutrition is actually the oldest trend. Evolutionary nutrition and fitness are gaining momentum online. When it comes to diet, I've been slowly moving in the evolutionary...
Read more →The one thing almost every diet book has in common is they attack other diet books. It almost seems like a prerequisite. The reader must be told their weight problem was the fault of misinformed or...
Read more →About five years ago, I read the first edition of The Warrior Diet. At the time I just shook my head thinking that this diet would not only be impossibly hard to follow but that it couldn't be true....
Read more →When I first picked up this book I didn't think it would hold that many interesting ideas about the psychology of eating. I was wrong. !Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think Mindless Eating:...
Read more →I'm so tired of people singing the praises of a particular diet as the one true way to lose weight. Diet choice has become the new religion. Most of the time when I revisit a diet evangelist months...
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