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How Much Protein Can We Use In One Meal?
Most likely almost all of it, but likely only around ~40 grams (or 0.16 g/lb) would go directly towards muscle protein synthesis and the rest would be absorbed and oxidized to be used as energy.TL;DR - Excess protein beyond what the body needs can absolutely be oxidized into usable energy and if this results in a significant and consistent [...]
How To Cut Cabbage and Prepare It for Meals
Cabbage is one of those tricky vegetables. It looks a little like a head of iceberg lettuce, only larger and with leaves that feel slightly waxy. Most people know how to tackle a head of iceberg lettuce, cutting it up expertly to put on their salads, tacos, sandwiches, and more. What happens when it comes [...]
How Many Meals Should I Replace To Get The Best Results?
This is such a real life question and you probably already have a hunch about what the answer might be on myfitfoods.com, but a recent fancy meta-analysis published in the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics explored this exact question analyzing 22 studies with 1,982 participants [1].Here is what the study found: Utilizing shakes or pre-packaged pre-portioned meals as [...]
How To Reverse Diet for Long-Term Weight Maintenance
You may have heard the term "reverse dieting" while investigating different diets and methods for cutting back on calories in order to lose weight. Reverse dieting is the opposite of that, with a goal of increasing your metabolism instead of helping you with straight weight loss.If you're curious about reverse dieting and open to trying [...]
How To Deal With Hunger Without Eating Even More
One of the worst things about changing your diet is that awful, lingering feeling of hunger. You don't want to eat anymore (after all, you're trying to eat healthier, lose weight, or follow a specific diet), so what do you do? Do you give in and reach for the snacks? Or find another method of [...]
Rice Alternatives and Substitutes That Are Healthy
Rice seems like it would be a staple of a healthy diet. After all, it's a good substitute for noodles, which are filled with carbohydrates and contain plenty of calories and other things that aren't good for your diet, especially if you're eating gluten-free or following a keto diet plan.However, plain white rice isn't so [...]
Hypertrophy Training Workout: What Is It and Why Try It?
Do you want muscles that you can be proud of? If that's the case, a hypertrophy workout routine might be just what you've been looking for. These workouts are designed to enhance your muscle growth, making it obvious that you've been exercising. On top of that, a hypertrophic workout (along with following a good diet [...]
Why Being Consistent Is Likely More Important Than Intermittent Fasting or Small Frequent Meals.
We covered if Intermittent Fasting is better for fat loss HERE, but it doesn’t look like when you control for calories and protein intake that Intermittent Fasting outperforms other meal frequency strategies for fat loss [1-3].This means that as coaches our best option on the meal frequency side is to individualize and sync up with what will work [...]
Why I Think You Should Lift Weights Even If You Hate It?
If you don’t love lifting or just hate the gym I 100% get it and this article is going to give you an efficient and effective plan so you can spend as little time as possible lifting weights while maximizing the health benefits!Once you feel like you are more effective and self-sufficient in the gym you may even start [...]
Do Spices Help Reduce Inflammation?
Much like Dune, our love of spice has started wars and spices have even been used as currency at multiple time points in human history.Spices have even been worth more than gold, and surprisingly some still are!This is because without spice, food is bland…meh…vanilla…yet even Grade-A Madagascar Vanilla Bean can still cost over $200 a pound.We know spices make food taste [...]
Workout Motivation: How Do We Sustain It?
Over the last year I have trained at least 350 out of 365 days. A lot of people hear this and think you must have so much motivation…so much willpower!Outside looking in, it does appear this way, but in truth as a person I would guess that I have average amounts or even low amounts of willpower in certain contexts [...]
Eight Tricks To Help Jumpstart Behavior Change.
Everyone is talking about behavior change right now and for good reason. People are motivated!Excited!SOOO EXCITED!!!!And there is no reason to make fun of or blunt that excitement. Let’s hone it and see what we can make stick this year. Below are my Top Eight Tactics for Behavior Change:1. The Fresh Start Effect Mondays, moving to a new city, and New Years [...]
