Fit Tips
Real people, real food, real results — stories and tips from My Fit Foods.
What’s The Deal With Gluten?
Gluten is a protein found in wheat, rye, and barley. It is actually a pretty cool glue like protein that holds foods together and results in that gooey consistency that people love in baked goods. Contrary to what I and many others once thought based on gluten’s lower digestibility score, it may not actually be that bad for muscle [...]
What Can You Eat or Drink While Intermittent Fasting?
Intermittent fasting is an excellent way to lose weight, boost your metabolism, and even prove to yourself that you have plenty of willpower. Weight lifters tend to use this eating pattern because it allows them to control their gains, while others choose to follow the diet for other reasons. Others believe it might support heart [...]
What To Eat 30 Minutes Before Working Out
Undoubtedly, your body needs fuel before a workout. If you exercise on an empty stomach, you'll suffer from a number of consequences, including not lacking the energy to meet your goals and missing out on getting a new personal record. You might even find yourself running to the refrigerator for a post-workout snack to curb [...]
What Is Muscle Memory and Is It Even Real?
If you've spent any time in a gym, you've probably heard of the term "muscle memory." For those who haven't, the words refer to the idea that your muscle fibers retain a certain amount of memory, making them able to recall certain motor skills on their own. With muscle memory, you don't need to recall [...]
How To Eat Clean for Beginners: The Ultimate Guide
You've probably heard the term "eating clean" and are wondering what doing so entails. After all, it sounds like a good way to eat a healthier diet and possibly lose weight, right?Eating clean is a meal plan that focuses on eating whole foods that are good for you and cutting out processed junk food. Want [...]
Can Resistance Training Boost Your Metabolism?
People are constantly looking for fancy sounding things that can increase their metabolism.For example, 2,4-dinitrophenol (DNP) is a herbicide, dye, and wood preserver that was used by the French during World War I and in 1933 scientists discovered that it led to rapid weight loss and an increase in one’s metabolic rate.However, there were many problems, the main one being...people [...]
What Is The Best Way To Deal With Food Cravings?
We have covered Do You Need a Cheat Day? previously, but this week’s article gets into something that we have all likely encountered…a food craving.“Food cravings are defined as “an intense desire to consume a particular food (or type of food) that is difficult to resist”. Food cravings occur in the majority of the population and occur frequently (i.e. multiple times per [...]
Should You Calculate Your Protein Needs Via Body Weight or Fat-Free Mass?
This question comes up a lot when calculating protein requirements and you will commonly hear the fitness cliché of just eat one gram of protein per pound of body weight.But, is this right?There is likely quite a bit of wiggle room with this 1 g/lb number and we have broken down how much protein someone might need based [...]
Can You Eat Bread and Lose Weight?
We recently dropped the Illegal Burger and it’s DELICIOUS, but we already know what your super-duper nutrition friend is going to say…“Don’t’ you know that you can’t eat bread and lose weight!?”Luckily, there is a study published in the Clinical Nutrition Journal [1] that looked at exactly this question BREAD vs. NO BREAD. Both groups were put on diets [...]
How To Stay Motivated To Work Out and Achieve Your Goals
Starting your new workout routine is the easy part. Staying on track and motivated to reach your goals is what's tricky. While it can take up to a month to get a new routine into place, how do you stay motivated after those first few days to even get to that point? We can’t all [...]
Fat Burning Zone: Calculate Heart Rate for Maximum Burn
Walking on a treadmill or pedaling at a slow speed on an exercise bike may not be enough for those dedicated to losing weight through diet and exercise. Instead, higher-intensity workouts might be needed to maximize their weight-loss potential and see the results they desire.This is where understanding heart rates, fat burning zones, and more [...]
Juicing for Weight Loss: What Is It and Is It Worth It?
Juicing became popular several years ago, and it’s still all the rage. Whether people choose to do a juice cleanse where they drink nothing but specially made juices for a week or two. They might also start their days with a fortified smoothie or custom-made juice. These tasty juices are designed to help you lose [...]
