Wanna know the one thing you can do to make sure that you lose weight?
Huh, do ya?
Well, stop eating so much.
Hardy har har!!!
But seriously now, there’s something that you can do to help you with weight loss.
Care to know what it is?
Of course you do! Continue reading Why You Should Plan Your Meals
According to the stats, ninety percent of people avoid cooking by outsourcing all their meals or they like cooking sometimes and do a mix of it and ordering out or dining in at restaurants. Only 10 percent love cooking enough to do it often.
If you fall into the former camp because you’re pressed for time or lack confidence in your cooking skills, that should probably change. Continue reading Why You Should Cook Your Own Food
How difficult can squatting be?
After all, you squat every time you take a seat to sit down. In fact, you’ve been squatting since you were a baby, as it’s the first thing you had to learn how to do before you could stand or walk.
However, as simple as squatting appears to be, it’s actually quite technical and easy to mess up, especially when the movement pattern is performed as exercise in its most popular variation, which is the barbell back squat. Just go to any gym in any city in any country at any time on any day and you’re sure to find people butchering the exercise in any number of ways and then complaining about some kind of pain or not seeing the results they want. That’s to be expected because the risk of injury is increased and the benefits are reduced when barbell squats are performed how most people perform them. But when done correctly, the barbell squat is safe and one of the best exercises for building strength and size.
Barbell squats are great for getting stronger and putting on muscle but that’s not only in the glutes, quads, and hamstrings. Nope, those benefits extend to the entire body as well. That’s because squats are a compound movement that require other body parts to perform it, such as the back, core, and obliques to stabilize the weight and the delts and traps to hold the barbell in place. All of those areas will develop in addition to the muscle groups in the lower body just by doing squats. But that’s only by doing them correctly! Continue reading How To Barbell Squat Correctly
How fast do you eat?
Do you shovel a new spoon- or forkful, dare I say HANDFUL!!!, of food into your mouth before the load that’s already in it is chewed and swallowed?
Well then, since you obviously eat in the manner that was so accurately described because I’m omniscient like that, that solves the mystery of why you’re fat!
See, when you eat, hunger hormones send signals to the brain to tell it when you’re full. When you eat too fast, your body doesn’t pick up on those cues that it’s had enough food, resulting in the consumption of excess calories. Conversely, eating slowly buys the brain time to receive the signals in question so you only take in as many calories as needed.
So what’s one way to slow down how fast you eat?
Yes, you could not use what essentially amounts to a shovel to shovel food into your mouth hole!
…or you could use chopsticks! Continue reading Eating With Chopsticks To Lose Weight
Vegetables are expensive, huh?
That’s one of the common reasons people give for why they don’t eat as many vegetables as they’re supposed to.1Based on general guidelines, that amount is 9 servings, or 2-3 cups, per day.
However, the truth is that vegetables aren’t really expensive, especially if they’re bought in season and you cut back on your junk food spending. Vegetables can be had for even cheaper when they’re bought frozen instead of fresh. If you go to any grocery store, it’s not uncommon to find big, cheap bags of frozen vegetables. You should get them!
Now, before you scoff, the cheapness of frozen vegetables in comparison to fresh vegetables isn’t a marker of their inferiority. Many people think it is but it’s not… Continue reading Are Frozen Vegetables As Healthy As Fresh?
