BMR, or basal metabolic rate, refers to the amount of calories your body uses just to stay alive. Essentially, BMR represents the total amount of energy/calories your body would use if you laid completely still in a bed all day and did nothing (sort of like the people in the movie WALL-E). In this article, […]

When it comes to making healthy choices at the grocery store, knowing how to read nutrition labels is an essential skill. Nutrition labels provide important information about the ingredients, serving size, and nutrient content of packaged foods.  However, with so much information packed into a small space, it can be overwhelming to know what to […]

Chicken is one of the most useful proteins in the kitchen because it adapts to almost any cuisine and almost any cooking method. It’s also nutritionally consistent enough that you can plan macros around it without much guesswork. What does vary is the cut. Breast, thigh, drumstick, and wing each land in different places on […]

Most diet content sells meal plans as the answer. Cook these seven meals, eat at these times, hit these numbers, and you’ll lose weight. If you can stick to the plan, the math works. The “stick to the plan” part is the catch. Plans work fine while you’re on them. They stop working the moment […]

What is Intermittent Fasting? Put simply, intermittent fasting refers to a method of eating that only allows you to eat during specific times of the day. The exact times do not necessarily matter, but rather that you can only eat during that specific period. For example, you may choose to only eat at breakfast time […]

The weeks leading up to the holidays can often be a mental challenge for individuals who are looking to improve their health and fitness, especially when it comes to nutrition for the holidays.  There is often anxiety around holiday meals, parties, events, and travel. Higher calorie foods, alcohol, and lack of a consistent training schedule […]

Starvation Mode… more accurately referred to as Metabolic Adaptation is an often misunderstood concept with arguments being made whether it even exists. This series will flesh this concept out in depth. Here is part 1. What Is Starvation Mode? There is irrefutable evidence that in a caloric deficit the body loses weight. This weight loss […]

Food is simple, behavior is complicated. It is simple to tell people: to lose weight just lower your calorie intake. It is also simple that lowering your calorie intake is, in fact, the easiest way to lose weight. However, the act of lowering your calorie intake and sustaining that can be complicated, because human behavior […]

The “30 grams of protein per meal” rule is one of fitness’s most durable myths. It floats around the internetosphere (I made that up, I’m claiming the copyright) as a confident piece of advice: eat more than 30 grams in one sitting and your body just throws away the rest. It’s not true, but it’s […]

By: Bec Gormley Expect to be hungry when dieting While we should expect some level of hunger while dieting, there are some ways you can reduce the “stomach growls” by making smarter food choices. Dieting doesn’t have to mean LESS food…it just requires LESS calories!  Let’s Talk Food Volume All of our coaches here at […]