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The Science Behind Weight Plateaus And Metabolic Adaptation - The Swole Kitchen

The Science Behind Weight Plateaus And Metabolic Adaptation

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. ...

What Is Reverse Dieting

What Is Reverse Dieting

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 ...

Yoga For Weight Loss: Can Yoga Help You Lose Weight

Yoga For Weight Loss: Can Yoga Help You Lose Weight

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 ...

How to make weight loss easier - the swole kitchen

How To Make Weight Loss Easier

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 ...

5 Ways Water Helps With Weight Loss

5 Ways Water Helps With Weight Loss

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 ...

10 Sneaky Causes Of Unintentional Weight Gain

10 Sneaky Causes Of Unintentional Weight Gain

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...

Weekend Overeating - The Swole Kitchen

Is Weekend Overeating Your Weak End?

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...

How Many Fat Grams Should I Eat A Day? - The Swole Kitchen

How Many Fat Grams Should I Eat A Day

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...