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Max Your Metabolism to Stay Lean
After (semi) lecturing a client about why it was important to lose body fat BUT maintain (and gain) all the lean muscle she could – even if the “weight” on her scale didn’t go down as quickly as she may have liked – she looked me straight in the eye and said: “So…your whole process […]
Eat What You Want: A Holiday Hack
You’d be amazed at the amount of otherwise disciplined, well-intentioned clients I have that completely lose the script around this time of year. I don’t know if it’s the change of weather (not an excuse in Singapore, since I live in a place with zero seasons), the festive decorations hung all over town, or the […]
How to Take Rest Days
Without KILLING Your Momentum
I get it. You’ve spent all this time listening to me tell you to build better habits; find exercise that doesn’t feel like a chore; hit all your strength training sessions so you can age healthfully; get 10,000 steps per day; and reduce your sedentary hours so you can manage your weight and stay fit […]
Why ‘Sustainable’
Results are a Hoax
When I ask new clients (that have worked with coaches in the past) about why they didn't continue that relationship/diet/method, their answer usually falls into one of two categories:
NSVs: True Motivation
for Long-Term Weight Loss
Most people initially want to lose weight because they want to look better. Any coach who's been in the game a long time can tell you that straight-up vanity is one of the top weight-loss motivators, and it spans across all ages, genders, and seasons of life.
Perma-Cutting: Why
Never-Ending Diets Backfire
If you've ever had success with a weight loss program, I'm sure it was from some combination of movement, calorie deficit, and improved healthy habits (sleep, stress management, etc).
Food Tracking for Weight Loss: Mirroring vs. Managing
A client came to me for nutrition help a while back, and in response to my intake form question "Are you willing to track your food intake?" she responded:
The Case for Home Cookin’
If you're looking for a weight loss solution that doesn't involve calorie counting, macro tracking, photo-taking, food logging, or any other methods of nutritional data entry, consider this:
Discipline Fatigue: The REAL
Reason You’re Not Losing Weight
You start a weight loss program, and lo and behold - it actually works. You're tracking calories, balancing macros, logging workouts, lifting weights, hitting steps, and watching the numbers on the scale (and the calipers!) happily go down.
Collect What Counts:
Doin’ Your Data RIGHT
A few weeks back, I wrote a piece about dropping the data - meaning; knowing when it's time to STOP tracking, collecting, sorting, and analysing health-related data.
