A Practical Guide to Sustainable Eating

Sustainable eating involves choosing a way of eating you can maintain over the long term. Do you believe that mainstream diets, with all their rules, achieve that? Ponder that for a moment. When we see an unflattering scale weight or … Read More

The Anti-Diet Diet

The USA diet industry, and I use that term loosely, makes $135 billion per year. If those diets don’t work, Americans spend an estimated $4.6 to $7.0 billion on weight-loss surgeries. Do you think that if dieting truly worked, the … Read More

5 Hidden Reasons You Keep Overeating

You’re adamant you won’t engage in overeating this time. This will be the moment when you display that self-control, listen to your fullness cues, and proudly stop eating short of a self-inflicted food coma. That is until you find yourself … Read More

Don’t Over Complicate Health And Fitness

Don’t Over Complicate Your Health & Fitness. Keep It Simple Have you heard of Occam’s Razor?   “The simplest explanation is usually the right one.” A lot of people including me love to over complicate things, especially health and fitness. Because … Read More

It’s My Birthday And I’ll Write If I Want To

Here’s is what I’ve learnt from lifting weights for 30 years For 12 years of my 51 birthdays stomping around this earth have been spent telling people what to do while wearing tracksuit pants and drinking excessive amounts of coffee. … Read More

40 days without candy

It’s assumed fitness professionals lead by example. They want to keep up appearances of a healthy lifestyle by posting pictures of their food and workouts on social media. And if they’re ripped, even better. Pictures with little or no clothes … Read More

You have the power

I haven’t had candy for 22 days (as I gave it up for lent) and I’ve made a few observations of myself and some long-held nutritional beliefs during the past 3 weeks. Here they are in no particular order. You’ve … Read More