Removing carbohydrates from your diet will cause a very rapid loss of a small amount of body weight. This typically makes dieters who try to go low carb very happy, but what must be understood is that while you are lighter, your body composition has not changed. What has disappeared is water. Carbohydrates are stored …
Ketogenic Part Duex
After three years using a Cyclical Keto Diet--which I've since learned I didn't really optimize--I played around with Lyle McDonald's Ultimate Diet 2.0 for 4 weeks and then started a Carb Cycling diet to try to increase calories for muscle gain, while trying to minimize fat gain. I have gained some weight, and while I …
It’s Not the Turkey Making you Sleepy
We hear it every year without fail, and I’m confident many will utter the words again this year: “All the tryptophan in the turkey is making me sleepy.” I would like to bring this falsehood to an end and will do my minuscule part by educating my readers—and those who stumble across me via the …
Nutrient Timing Research
Nutrition is a topic that is vitally important, yet it creates a lot of confusion. Even people dedicated to fitness and wellness have widely varying positions on what to eat, when to eat it, and what happens when you do. This is especially prevalent in the gym "community" and all manner of diet programs materialize …
Testosterone Improvement Plan
Six months ago, I had my total testosterone and free testosterone checked. The results were less than stellar and I decided action had to be taken. I researched everything I could find online in terms of boosting both Total, but more importantly for me, Free testosterone. After weeding through the morass of crap and snake …
Does Coffee Really Dehydrate You?
What's the background? Caffeine is known to have a diuretic effect when consumed in high doses. Since coffee contains caffeine, is therefore widely assumed that drinking coffee leads to dehydration. However, some studies have reported that regular consumption of caffeine leads to resistance to its diuretic effects, which may mean that a regular caffeine habit …
To Keto or Not To Keto
Having resisted low carb dieting for many years, I finally gave it a whirl in August of 2012. I started with Carb Nite by John Kiefer because it was popular among the powerlifting circles I liked to glom onto. I didn't know it at the time, but Carb Nite is just a cyclical ketogenic diet, …
Tolerate my Intolerance
There's been a lot said about gluten and whether eating it is good, bad or indifferent. There isn't nearly enough discussion about the gluten content of cosmetics and hair spray. I think it would be an interesting panel discussion about whether we should be eating our Maybelline, but alas, no one is having it. The …
Stop Being Fat
If you're fat and don't wish to be, there are no excuses. No one cares about your reasons. You can justify your physical state to yourself as much as you'd like, but in the light of day, you're still fat and have to deal with the societal, health, and self esteem issues that go along …
Chocolate: The Food of the Gods
Food of the Gods is perhaps an overused phrase, but in the long history of delicacies for which it’s been used, chocolate may be the most apropos. Looking for a famous quote about chocolate to start this essay about my love of -- and likely addiction to -- this delicious morsel, I was overwhelmed by …
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