fat loss - Arv' Musings

Unmasking the truth: Your failed diet is not your fault

You fuck up your diet. Again. Your gym membership is for the year but you stopped going many months back. Once more, you take responsibility for what has happened. Laudable.You have encountered failure before.

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No Starving, No Detox: The Sustainable Guide to a Healthy Weight Loss Diet Plan Without Compromising Your Cultural Eating Habits

Remember, it is your diet. Your taste buds. Your life. Your cultural background. Your sustainable interpretation of it. Find it. Live it.

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Demystifying Fat Loss: Uncover the Basics, Different Fat Types, and No-Exercise Weight Loss Strategies

With my guidance, achieving your health goals won't be a strenuous uphill battle, but rather an enlightening, empowering experience. Let's embark on this journey towards a healthier you, together!

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Get healthier without missing out on your favourite foods

I'll help you eat lesser. This doesn't mean you will starve. Instead, it means you will eat the amount you need rather than overeat without knowing.

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How to tackle stress eating

In the short-term, when stressed, the stress response curbs appetite. Why? Because getting out of the stressful scenario is immediately relevant. You've seen this in action when you are working on an important project and have skipped a meal.

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Weight loss isn't the hard part. Weight maintenance is.

There is a limit to how much time we can hold our breath underwater. We need to come up for air. There's a limit to how much time we can do something unsustainable.

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The bane of weighing yourself

But the association of how good a person you are, how good you should feel about yourself, how much you should berate yourself, how much harder you should work at the gym, how much starvation you are going to endure - that's all coming from somewhere inside of you.

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Why That Person's Miracle Diet Didn't Work for You

You are looking for something. You want social proof. The objective thinker, the "Show me the facts" person in you might not fall for it. But we all have moments of weakness and send that fellow away to the back room.

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Linear Progression, a Burrito, and How You Can Learn to Eat Less

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on Tantrums and Zero Progress

You (think you) are doing everything right. But what the fudge?!!? It is okay to get annoyed and angry and feel helpless and throw a tantrum. But what next?

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Friendly fire

Your family and friends are not sabotaging you because they are secretly jealous. They are not in alignment with you. Because you are disrupting the homeostasis of how things are going - of the party, of an evening out, of regular family life.

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What is a calorie deficit?

Energy can neither be created nor destroyed. It can only be transformed.

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3 surprising factors that can help with fat loss

Because at the end of the day, calories in vs calories out are the underlying factor. But unfortunately, it stops working. Why? Let's find out

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a fool-proof system to lose weight

3 meals a day. Nothing between meals. Nothing outside of meals. Nothing before or after meals. If you are eating it, it happens in that thirty minute window that you are eating. Try it out for a week and get back to me. Oh, don't forget to measure yourself today and after one week.

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an email from a student on 6 months of progress

You taught me how to eat, instead directing me on what to eat. ... Well that's what [has] allowed me to now maintain a mostly consistent diet for half a year now.

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on the endless cycle of gaining and losing weight

It is easy to lose 5 kilos in a few weeks. It is even easier to put it back on in a few weeks. Get out of that cycle. The slower the gains, the better.

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on useful binary thinking

The issue arises when you tell yourself it is just one bite of cake, or just a few bits of chips and what-not. You are not skilled enough or responsible enough to do that. So, just stop with it!

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on the shape that will actually make you happy

Do you look at an old photo - from 2-3 years back and not old college/school photos - and wish you were in that shape today? Well, here's a question for you - were you happy with that shape, at that time and place?

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4 ways to supercharge your walk

Walking is underrated and underutilised. Because you don't know how to make it harder while retaining all the advantages. Well, not anymore! Try this out and see magic happen in 3 months.

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the limitations of others' dreams

The "I want to look this way" is just the start of what fitness can do for you, not the end. Dive in and discover how your mind and body explodes, if you will let it.

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3 popular misconceptions

Having the wrong mental model about a concept causes us to act on it poorly. Let's get you sorted on intermittent fasting, a training layoff and sleep deficit so that you don't make those mistakes.

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on a story about "hulk" arms

Strong and muscular, not bulky. At 40 years old, my student was just amazing. Until a few saboteurs sabotaged her by being rude.

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on doing something the second time around

You successfully lost a bunch of weight that you wanted to. You made it until the end. But when you try it out again, it does not go so well.

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on lemon water and all that

There's nothing magical about those combinations. Do you really think that there's a magical solution out there which is so simple that allows you to do whatever you want and the entire world does not know about it?!

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can I cancel my junk eating with exercise?

If I want to eat an ice-cream that's 400 calories and if running for 40 minutes burns 400 calories - can I run daily and eat that ice-cream daily and doesn't that seem like a win-win?