In studying and learning principles of nutrition and physical fitness, you’re bound to bump into research and data regarding diseases, risks, and outcomes and with stats. There’s plenty of overlap, and it’s helpful to know where some of these other concepts apply to the gains you’re after.

This week, the candy Blitzkrieg is officially on. As I wrote recently, this week is typically the week that kicks off the weight-gaining holiday season, most of which is weight that most people tend to hold on to forever. Forever. So, what are we all going to do?

You’re blasted out of the ether realm of sleep by the intrusive alarm that may as well be tiny blacksmiths using your ear drums as anvils. We’ve all been there, and hopefully these nights and days are the minority rather than the majority. How we feel, this is pure fatigue…

The next 2.5 to 3 months are going to see waves if not deluges of good foods and treats coming right for us. instead of falling completely off our wagons, it’s high time to roll with the punches.

October seems to have tentpole life events for me… it’s ATale of Two Cities—the best of times and the worst of times.

Life is not an endurance race, but it often feels like it is, not necessarily in a competitive sense—although, hey, sure—but just in the effort we must exert… Sometimes, it’s like an obstacle course, like American Ninja Warrior or Wipe Out.

The name of the theory alone gets my intellectual gears spinning. During my readings of Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor (BDNF—two articles back from this one), I came across this theory, which was born out of the Free Radical Theory of Aging.

Our movement-avoidance-while-injured programming takes root when we’re very young, but it keeps deepening as we age, so much so that we start avoiding any kind of movement that creates the slightest sensation of discomfort, even while in seemingly good health.

BDNF is Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor, which, if you’re like me and come largely from a liberal arts background, might as well be baby babble, without sounding quite as cute.

Some of the body’s compensatory mechanisms when it’s faced with weight loss, mechanisms that result in a slowing of the progress, further adding to our never-ending-story of frustrations.

First, let’s remember that weight loss is not necessarily synonymous with fat loss, and fat loss is what we want and what we’re aiming for.

If you’ve ever lost any amount of body weight, you’ve likely experienced a weight loss stall. There are a few possible culprits for why this occurs, but it’s a natural part of the weight loss process, unfortunately.

if you consistently undereat by a large degree your body will pull much of its energy requirements from body tissues. Here’s a 10-point list to get started doing it right.

Let’s clarify that title: “consistently”, as in adequately, a normal amount of food every day, and not necessarily at regular or fixed intervals…

I recently had a conversation with an eight-year-old about what she had to eat the previous day.

Ozempic comes from a group of pharmaceuticals that are used to control blood sugar. Now, though, people in non-clinical situations are jumping on the wagon to lose some weight.

I have a theorum about aging:

One of the hallmarks of aging is when we, one, stop acquiring new music, and two, when we stop listening to music altogether.

How’s that for some unorthodox advice? My experience with doing a pretty aggressive bulk.

The first time I laid down on a bench press, I was in high school, about 16 or so… Naturally, I was curious to see what I could do…

I actively did martial arts for about ten years… Near the end of that run, I trained for a couple of years with a Wushu master…