Deluding yourself is usually not a good thing… except when it’s a good thing. A 2011 study conducted at Yale, found that perception of calorie intake influences the body’s hormonal and metabolic response to calorie intake. Check out my YouTube Video on the study, or just keep reading! The study administered a 380 calorie milkshake to 46 participants, in two separate […]
Today’s questions comes from What When Diet reader Paul: Loved your book. It reminded me of why I loved doing primal a few years. The steakssss and going to farmers marketsss… Ok basically, I’m a musician and gained some pounds after moving to LA. But this last year I’ve been trying to shed off those pounds. And being semi- […]
Today’s Q&A comes from Amy, who has experience with 24 hour fasts, but is now giving Intermittent Fasting a go! “I just purchased your book from Amazon and I’m anxious to jump in. I have two questions for you. All information that I read on IF talks about fasting from food but I haven’t yet seen anything in regards […]
While we may believe we’re in control of what we do each day, an estimated 40-45% of our actions are actually habits. Yep, a large portion of our day runs on an intensely dedicated autopilot, resistant to change. As discussed in Charles Duhigg’s The Power of Habit, habits function in a cue-routine-reward loop. We experience a trigger for our habit (the […]
There is a marked difference between how men and and women store and use fat, which *coincidentally* explains the very obvious differences between the “male” and “female” body shape. It all goes back to one simple concept: babies. Ya see…females have to maintain a substantial amount of nutritional energy stores just in case they […]
So what happens if you add exercise to the whole intermittent fasting scenario? While people quickly assume exercising on an empty stomach will hinder performance and speed up exhaustion, studies consistently show quite the opposite. IF + EXERCISE = ENDURANCE When I think of my pre-fasting days, I think of daytime lethargy and equating an hour long workout […]
