Fit Tips
Real people, real food, real results — stories and tips from My Fit Foods.
Is Oil Holding Back Your Weight Loss?
If we are trying to lose weight can we please stop pouring oil on stuff! When you increase the energy density of a meal by adding fat people generally won’t realize and will just eat more, and unknown calories from added fat is one of, if not the most likely thing sabotaging your weight loss results [...]
Thermic Foods: What Are They, and Why Do They Matter?
In today’s world, everyone is looking to make passive income, which is money that basically makes itself and adds up while you sit back and do nothing to earn it. Thermic foods are thought to be the “passive income” of the dieting world.In layman’s terms, thermic, or thermogenic foods, arefoods that burn more calories than [...]
Intermittent Fasting for Fat Loss & Muscle Gain
It doesn’t look like intermittent fasting (IF) outperforms other meal timing strategies for fat loss when you control for calories and protein intake [1-3].Honestly, given everything we have learned about nutrition in the last hundred years it does not make any sense that eating less often would contain some kind of calorie-independent fat-loss magic. Pure and simple the upside [...]
Three EASY Strategies To Eat Less?
1) When grocery shopping make a list and do not deviate. There are financial reasons you relentlessly encounter “Buy Two Get 1 Dollar Off” end cap promotions on cheap energy dense food. Also, stay away from those bagel bites “free” samples…research shows that around 40% of people who sample a food, purchase that food.2) Refrain from stockpiling easy to [...]
My Fit Foods = Less Stress
It looks like one of the keys for maintaining long-term weight-loss is clear, personalized, and continuously adjusted goals [1]. This is what our nutritional consultants are trained to do…work WITH you to find the strategies that fit best into your everyday life.In turn, we also realize that this process is a journey and that the only constant in this [...]
Can We Learn To Eat Less and Like It?
It's no secret, portion sizes have been increasing for the last 50 years and we have become habituated to a new SUPER-SIZED normal. Evolutionarily, we all want the best deal. Deep down we crave the cheapest most-delicious calorie-rich options…in our current environment that generally means nutrient-poor hyper-palatable snacks (AKA chips) or fast food. When we are surrounded by larger packages, larger [...]
If You Are Going to Diet – WIN!
Our Offense for Fat Loss is consistency combined with whole foods and increased daily movement [1-3].Our Defense against muscle loss on a diet is sufficient protein and some form of exercise ideally a mix of moderate to vigorous activity and at least two days a week of resistance training [4-6].Don’t major in the minors. Don’t get lost in [...]
Is Type 2 Diabetes For Life?
No!Type 2 Diabetes is Reversible [1-5].In fact, 86% of people with Type 2 Diabetes who lost more than 15 kg or 33 pounds at one year were in remission and the odds of attaining remission was directly related to the degree of weight lost [1].Are these results easy?No.Can My Fit Foods make them easier?Absolutely.Does this kind of life-changing work take [...]
Do You Want The Bad News or The Good News?
If you want to lose fat…I have some real talk bad news that the annoying YouTubers by their pools won’t tell you…you are probably going to have to limit your consumption of sweet baked items, salty snacks, chocolate and candy, ice cream, starchy side dishes, and pizza.“The only reported management strategy that was related to weight loss in all intervention groups [...]
Can Money Buy Happiness?
If you spend your money on time it looks like Yes.Even if you love to cook, you probably don’t love to cook all your meals, especially if it feels like there aren’t enough hours in the day.I have been in this field a long time and I still haven’t met too many people who wake up fully torqued to [...]
Do You Need a Diet Break?
There has been a lot of hype about refeeds and diet breaks the last few years.Jackson Peos and colleagues [1] just published the longest and most meticulous study to date where two groups of females either went through 12 straight weeks of caloric restriction or four three week blocks of energy restriction with a one week of energy balance [...]
Are Eggs Good For You?
Yup. Eggs are a source of bioavailable protein and whole eggs seem to pump up muscle protein synthesis more than just egg whites [1]. Eggs contain nearly all vitamins and every trace mineral [2]. They are also rich in choline, a nutrient that 90% of Americans don’t get enough of [3].An egg yolk also contains around ~200 mg of cholesterol. [...]
