Hidden calories can often derail our efforts to maintain a healthy diet, especially when we overlook seemingly insignificant sources of calories. In this blog post, we’ll delve into the world of hidden calories, uncovering common culprits, and providing practical tips to eliminate them from your diet. Understanding Hidden Calories Hidden calories refer to those calories […]
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Losing Weight
What Is The CICO Diet (Calories In, Calories Out) And How Can It Help You Lose Weight?
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The CICO Diet, also known as the Calories-In-Calories-Out diet, is a way of thinking about dieting that boils weight loss down to “first principles” thinking. Essentially, it removes all the other aspects of food and focuses just on the calories in your food, nothing else.
Losing Weight
The Science Behind Easy Fat Loss: A Guide to Your Metabolism and How You Burn Calories
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If you’re looking to improve your physical health and achieve your fat loss goals, you’re in the right place. In this post, we’ll explore the intricate relationship between metabolism and fat loss and provide valuable insights and guidance based on our decades of experience as coaches. Losing Fat is Easy When You Know How Losing […]
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The popularity of extreme diets has been on the rise in recent decades, with each new trend pushing the boundaries of restriction further. For example… about 10-15 years ago we had the rise of the Paleo Diet, this eventually lead into ketogenic diets, which lead into the Snake Diet, which lead into the carnivore diet… […]
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By Calvin Huynh – Macros Inc Coach Understanding the Need for Deloading When you first started lifting, getting stronger was easy. You could slap on an extra 5 lbs or pump out more reps each week. Life was good, you were making solid, steady gains each week. Unfortunately, this pace of progress could not last […]
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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, […]
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Everybody wants to lose weight, but you can only lose weight for so long. Once you have reached the bottom end of healthy body fat levels, there is simply no more tissue to lose before some health consequences set in. Getting to the low teens of body fat percentage for women, or the low single […]
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You are laying on a lounge chair next to the pool with your headphones in listening to your favorite podcast. The ocean waves are rolling in the background, the breeze rolls across your skin. You reach for your poolside drink and snacks. But you stop for a second and you think, “oh shoot, this probably […]
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If we have learned anything about our health over the last several years it is that our immune system is an incredibly important part of keeping us healthy. Not only does it help us fight off infections and diseases, the status of our immune system can also affect how sick we get if we do […]
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The dieting industry is always spinning up new ways to lose weight… and sometimes it brings back old ideas and makes them new again. One dieting approach that has come back into vogue is the idea of fasting (aka not eating), but now there is an additional layer to it… fasting for specific times of […]