Optimize Your Engine: Understanding Calorie Calculations Along with discovering what your goals are, and tailoring your eating pattern (protocol) to accomplish those goals; we need to figure out exactly how many calories and how many meals per day YOU need to get there. The easiest way to visualize how this works is to imagine your [...]
The Big FAT Issue It is time to talk about everyone's least favorite macro...FAT. This macro gets a bad rap from people thinking “eating fat will make me fat”. A perception perpetuated by generations of fad-dieting and short-sighted health recommendations, we've demonized this essential macro-nutrient even longer than people have hated carbs. In this article, [...]
Choosing Your Lifestyle Tracker Improving your health starts with measuring your lifestyle alongside your nutrition, so picking a device for features related to fitness or other functions is not as helpful as prioritizing lifestyle metrics first. Every week, another company seems to release a new gadget with new features and new price-points to expand their [...]
What You Should Know About Supplements Everywhere that we look, someone somewhere is touting about how awesome their supplements are. Unfortunately, since supplementation is generally not regulated by the FDA or any other quality control requirement, most of the products on the market are simply revenue generators for the company promoting them, and rarely [...]
Setting Up MyFitnessPal for Success Over my career, countless people have messaged me asking why they are so hungry after setting up their MyFitnessPal accounts. It dawned on me that the little tricks us fitness pro’s know about setting up our food trackers aren’t common knowledge, so I wrote this [...]
