nutrition

diet

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.

coaching

Learn How to Score your Eating and Improve your Diet

Does maintenance mean one slice of cake a week? Or three? What if you are on vacation? Is this what adult life is about - rationing treats?

life

Friday Thought: Best Friends

You look at it on paper, it makes no sense. You want to be your best friend. You understand you better than most. You know all the great things you are doing. But yet, you behave like anything close to a friend.

daily9

How to not get any sugar cravings

the craving to have something sugary after a good meal. You just ate. You are rather full. You ate well. But still, there's this sugar craving. Why?!?!

diet

Even Magic Needs a Little Bit of Help

it is a ritual. It is a daily reminder that they are focusing on their health. Starting the day off with this is a great way to check-in with their mind and body.

diet

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

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

challenge

The Goldilocks zone

And then, liberally steal and copy and chop and change from whatever you see to make your own perfect concoction. Keep doing it, keep tinkering with it and make your own special brand of awesome-sauce.

habits

My sweet tooth

When I buy it, I am in a lot more control of it. But when someone sends something across, it feels like "I have to eat it." Which might sound stupid, but that's how it is.

guilt

My sweet tooth and inner dialogues

Writing it down in my journal, not feeling guilty about what I did but simply observing what I did, and laughing at myself - that seems to be a good enough lesson from last night.

diet

Hack portion control

Your appetite has been trained by you, more or less. Your stomach size is also developed over the years. So, come dinner time, you know what and how much of it is going in.

diet

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

coaching

Smoke and drink and live to a 100

The world is full of exceptions. Most things though, tend to follow the norm.

framework

Do you want it simple? Or easy?

There's value in understanding what the toll of a task is. Some demand more time or more energy or both, and they form a barrier to entry. Calorie counting for me is impossible and D9 is second nature, but for a lot of folks, it is the other way around.

coaching

failing a diet is your comfort zone

Looks like you went on a diet last January as well. Oh, you lost 8 kilos then. Brilliant. And how much did you put on over the year? All of it. And then some. stop repeating the same pattern

coaching

on subbing out rice

We try a shortcut or a flawed method due to multiple reasons. One of them is a flawed mental model. We have the wrong conception about how something works and so when we try to implement that method, we don't get the desired result.

coaching

on hard and fast rules

You've broken the rule. You are angry. Mostly at yourself. At this repressed way of eating and dieting. You are angry you need to diet. You feel guilty. And somewhere you decide to order a few scoops of ice cream

coaching

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.

diet

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.

coaching

on calling out bull****

Instead, he took it personally. He was affronted that a smart person such as himself was questioned on what he was doing.

nutrition

3 quotes for March 12, 2021

If you thought that science was certain - well, that is just an error on your part.

coaching

but I don't know how to ...

If you cannot figure out that you need to eat more vegetables or how to eat more vegetables, you aren't ready. If you aren't internalising the process, if you aren't converting it into YOUR process, things eventually fall down.

coaching

the dieting toolbox

Through experimentation, we need to identify the right tools and build your toolbox. Using the right tool at the right time is what will get you to your goals. And not 'that' diet you are not currently on.

coaching

what we can learn about instant gratification from plants

A lot of us fail on our journey towards better health and fitness because of poor mental models and mindset. Just like a plant takes love and care and time to yield results, you need to do the same in your journey.

mindset

what if "the burn" = cravings

The burn that we get when we workout, we like that feeling. We enjoy that feeling. We look forward to that feeling. So, we do chase that burn. Even though that burn is not really a pleasant feeling.

diet

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?!