Food Addiction
For the majority of you reading this book, trigger foods are simply problematic indulgences you’ll have to learn to reduce, avoid completely or manage better. For the food addict, trigger foods can kill. Abstinence and elimination of trigger foods is the goal for the food addict. How do you know if you simply [...]
I developed these six strategies over a decade of working closely with weight fighters and watching who was successful and who wasn’t.
Very simply I define a weight fighter as someone who has been unsuccessful at achieving reasonable weight-loss goals for at least a year. A weight fighter is also someone who has lost weight only [...]
What follows is a paired-down version of an article penned by Thom Lamb for Elite FTS - http://articles.elitefts.com/articles/training-articles/dysfunction-and-obesity/
The following passage is the crux of what this article is about — To heal the body, we teach it how to squat, lunge, push, pull, twist, and bend. Any movement a human being can do is a [...]
Is your glass half-empty? Changing that negative perspective can be good for you.
Optimists (who see that same glass as being half-full) have quite a few advantages over their pessimistic counterparts.
Their happy-go-lucky attitude helps them meet life’s challenges head-on, be more resilient when disaster does strike, and be happier in general.
Pessimists expect the worst out of [...]
CHICAGO, IL—In spite of billions of dollars spent and decades of research, scientists at the University of Chicago said Monday that the scientific community is no closer to finding a cure for the potentially fatal disease of obesity.
“The obesity epidemic in this country has public-health authorities panicking, and with good reason,” said Dr. Seong-Hun [...]
The Kinds of Carbohydrates You Eat Affect Heart Risk
When you talk about a heart-healthy diet, you usually hear about fats and cholesterol in the diet. New research from a large study in Italy indicates that people who eat the most highly refined carbohydrates have twice the risk of a heart attack compared to people who [...]
Excessive Overtime Work Is Bad for Your Heart
Do you regularly work overtime? If so, you might be at increased risk for heart attack or angina. A new 11-year study of more than 6,000 British men and women found that regularly working 10- or 11-hour days increases the risk of heart disease by 60 percent. This [...]
In this video little Jessica has the idea of positive affirmations down to a science! Positive affirmations can be an effective tool to not only keep a more positive frame of reference but also to keep focused on what you want and what is already good and working in your life. This is just cute. [...]
If you cannot do a real pullup this is something to begin preparation for you to do so.
For the test I’m laying out for you below to maintain uniformity I want everyone to only do palms-facing-away pullups (pronated grip) and not palms-facing-you chinups (supinated grip).
On the video below the Coach shows multiple grips for the [...]
Ran across this the other day. I’m not the author. But I like it and agree with almost every single word of it.
10 Simple Rules For Dating My Daughter
Rule One:
If you pull into my driveway and honk you’d better be delivering a package, because you’re sure not picking anything up.
Rule Two:
You do not touch my [...]