Exercise Your Mind

You may have heard that eating frequent snack-sized meals throughout the day is a good plan for weight loss because it supposedly stokes your metabolism, which would help you burn more calories overall. Sorry, buddy, but no. ...read more

The resounding answer...YES. And anyone who tells you they don’t is trying to sell you something. And while yes, I have made a very good living over the years with this advice, I find the truth delivers results and results are worth paying for. ...read more

How do I make the time…?  I must get this question a hundred times a month.

Your health depends on getting enough sleep. At least seven hours a night (though eight is ideal) helps you manage stress, fight disease, burn fat, and regulate your appetite— just to name a few benefits. ...read more

In an effort to minimize our consumption of pesticides and other chemicals, we make a point of buying organic food when we can. But foods aren't the only things in your kitchen that can harbor harmful ingredients. ...read more

When hormones begin to fluctuate, stress levels skyrocket, and appetite begins to do strange things, some people find it very hard to eat, and others find it very hard to stop eating. When you are ravenous all the time, or just stress-eating, it’s tempting to justify overeating. ...read more

One of my biggest pet peeves is deceptive food labeling. For example: a single bottle or can of a beverage often lists multiple servings. What are all these weird-sounding ingredients? And why is this list so ridiculously long anyway? All great questions! ...read more

I can't say it enough: Exercise is essential to losing weight -- and keeping it off. Sure, there are tons of ways to get your heart pumping, but here are three types of workouts that will optimize fat loss and accelerate your results aesthetically and athletically.

There is so much confusion out there about macronutrients. Every time someone wants to write a new diet book they try to reinvent the wheel, and one of the key ways they do that is by playing with the macronutrient ratio of meals or cutting out a particular type of food. ...read more

Weight maintenance is something that many are confused by. They often feel if they don’t continue to work as hard and diet as fastidiously as they did while losing weight that they will gain the weight back. This is not the case. ...read more