Understanding how your body responds to weight loss is crucial for anyone looking to shed those extra pounds and keep them off. One key concept to grasp is metabolic adaptation -- a natural survival mechanism that works to preserve energy and prevent further weight loss. ...
You’re familiar with dieting, but what about reverse dieting? Reverse dieting is essentially, the diet or protocol that is used when you’ve hit a weight loss plateau and have slashed calories down so far that your body stops responding to your efforts. It’s a ...
Let’s face it, we all don’t want to lift weights, go running, or live in the gym – and that’s okay! Yoga is great option when you’re searching for a way to stay in shape, lose weight or jump into something new. Stress is one of the leading contributing factors to obesity and research suggests ...
When you set out on a weight loss journey your motivation is probably high. You’re not going to let anything get in your way and you think to yourself that you’re finally going to pummel that scale for good. Yet, as you carry through your journey, you might find yourself wondering how to make ...
We’ve all seen them, the gallon water jugs, multi-colored and feigning some sort of inspirational hoo-hah to incite motivation to slug down more and more water like “don’t give up”, or “feeling awesome.” But is there really a method to the madness? There is. You may not have to carry around a ...
Look, losing weight is hard. It’s difficult, it’s tedious, it’s fun one day and sucks the next. We get it. We help clients every single day lose weight. However, there are ways to make losing weight more enjoyable
Nothing is worse feeling than trying to lose weight and you end up stepping on the scale for a check in only to see that you’ve gained weight. UGH. Talk about disappointing. Then the feelings and thoughts creep in telling you that you need to restrict more, stop going out to see fri...
You work hard during the week. You go to work, you get the kids where they need to go, take the dogs on walks and hit your workouts. You meal prep, plan ahead, log your meals and foods, hit your macros, and feel great. Monday through Thursday are so much of a breeze sometimes that t...
Fat often gets a bad rap in the diet world for being bad for you. While you can manipulate your body composition and greatly improve your health with dietary fat, it is often confusing when we think to ourselves, ‘how many fat grams should I eat a day’? This is where our nutrition s...
Weight loss can be hard! It can also be extremely frustrating when you’re not losing weight with diet AND exercise. Combining the two is a great start, but we’ve lined out some common mistakes that we see often to help you get through the weight loss plateau.
