Fit Tips
Real people, real food, real results — stories and tips from My Fit Foods.
How To Stop Boredom Eating: 10 Tips for When You're Bored
Boredom eating, also known as mindless eating, can definitely send your diet off-track. One minute, you're watching tv or reading something on the internet, and the next, you have a sugary or salty snack in your hands. You've thrown off your diet, added more calories to your food diary for the day, and now have to [...]
How To Plan Ahead For A Guilt-Free Thanksgiving?
Hey Fit Family!In this email, we are going to build in a 3,000 calorie Thanksgiving meal by planning ahead of time.Stop it! That's impossible! Actually, it's a lot easier than many people think. Before we create some rough weekly Holiday schematics I have to state that the number of calories that someone burns per day [...]
Holiday Weight Gain: Fact or Fiction?
Hey Fit Family!The Holidays are magical...The lightsThe smellsThe cakeThe pies…and on average Americans gain around 1 to 2 pounds every Holiday season.“Most importantly, this weight is not subsequently lost and can lead to a substantial increase of 15–30 pounds over multiple decades.” -Bhutani et al., 2020Everyone reading this email probably has at least a few [...]
Do You Need a "Cheat" Day?
Hey Fit Family!Is the Rock eating piles of pancakes a good idea for us mere mortals?*When it comes to “Cheating”, unfortunately, the answer looks to be a hard maybe…I will say that I am against the ideology of all-out unmonitored cheat days or meals for most people as this mindset can get us into quite [...]
So Ya Ate Some Halloween Candy…Now What?
Hey Fit Family!It’s a holiday weekend so let’s have some fun and go on a full on MEME PARADE!I promise you will want to stick around to the end. First, some Bad News...For some people to lose body fat they do need to have all their ducks in a row.Unfortunately, they kind of have to [...]
How Do We Actually Lose Body Fat?
Hey Fit Family!Does Body Fat just disappear into thin air?If not, where does it go?When we “lose” body fat we lose it from our bodies, but the confusing part is that it doesn’t just disappear.What happens is that when we eat less calories than we need our body is forced to use stored energy.We oxidize [...]
Is Late Night Netflix Killing Your Results?
Hey Fit Family! There are so many amazing shows to watch and we are all probably guilty of staying up a bit too late because we just have to see what happens next, but maintaining a consistent sleep schedule looks to be quite important for both weight loss and weight loss maintenance [1, 2]. Letting that next [...]
Does Our Metabolism Decrease As We Age?
Hey Fit Family! There are so many lies that swirl around the word Metabolism. I hate these lies because they generally just leave people frustrated, angry, and confused without a way to take action. Perhaps, one of the most unhelpful of these myths has just been debunked by the largest metabolism study to date.A new study in Science found [...]
Is Intermittent Fasting The Best For Fat Loss?
Hey Fit Family!Is Intermittent Fasting the Best for Fat Loss?When you control for calories and protein intake it doesn’t look like intermittent fasting (IF) outperforms other meal frequency strategies for fat loss [1-3].Also, fat oxidation over 24 hours looks to be the same whether you eat two or three meals in the day [4].So, if [...]
How Much Protein Do You Really Need To Meet Your Goals?
Was that annoying guy with the protein shake right? Does everyone need one gram per pound of protein?Back in the nineties consuming this amount of protein was the law of the land, but we have learned over the last 30 years that the amount of protein you need really all comes down to YOUR GOAL.My Fit [...]
How to Gain Muscle and Lose Fat at the Same Time
In the last post of this series we talked about why Recomping is so much better than normal crash diet philosophies. If you missed it, you can check that out HERE.In this Fit Tip, we are going to give away the "secrets" of how to gain muscle while simultaneously losing body fat.What Are the Keys to [...]
Why Is Recomping So Much Better than Normal Weight Loss?
Last week we talked about the potential dangers of losing weight without exercise and the dreaded Fat Overshoot. If you missed it, you can check that out HERE!Furthermore, it looks like the more muscle you lose on a diet the more likely you may be to experience weight regain after the diet [1].What's a solution [...]
