A lot of people only pay attention to the scale when they're trying to lose weight, which seems obvious enough: if you want to know whether you're losing weight, you weigh yourself. But the scale isn't actually a 100% reliable source of feedback, especially in [...]
When people imagine the health & fitness results that they want, they often think in terms of goals. "I want to lose 50 pounds," for example. The problem is, goals are not actually that good for driving results. You say, "I want to lose 50 [...]
Yeah, this is definitely one of those health & fitness "hot takes." The exact macronutrient breakdown of your diet probably doesn't matter enough for you to care about it. If you're a professional bodybuilder or athlete, sure, maybe you need exactly 163g of protein and [...]
"Intuitive eating" is a popular idea that says we should be able to "naturally" eat the right amount of food to maintain a healthy weight, and perhaps be totally satisfied while doing so. On the other hand, calorie tracking has gotten a bad rap over [...]
I have what some might consider to be a hot take when it comes to calorie tracking and losing weight: If you're starting out, you should eat at maintenance. Meaning, track and eat the same amount of calories that you require to maintain your weight [...]
AI is obviously all the rage right now, and even nutrition apps are jumping on the bandwagon with wanting to be able to say, “AI-powered this” and “AI-powered that.” People are understandably skeptical about AI for a lot of reasons, obviously. But with nutrition apps [...]
After doing health and fitness for over 20 years now (successfully and unsuccessfully), and subsequently giving people advice and coaching clients (also successfully and unsuccessfully), I've realized something really important: One of the hardest things about all of this is: you start doing something that [...]
Calorie counting has gotten a bit of a bad rap over the years. People often see it as an obsessive behavior that can lead to a bad relationship with food. In my experience however, and what I would argue, is that the opposite is true [...]
Before you can track your calories against a target, you need to pick a target. But this is a surprisingly easy place to get stuck, and a lot of people do. You put your information into one calculator, and it says you burn 2,400 calories [...]
You've got your food and calorie counts planned for the day, and then a friend texts: we're going to the new Mexican restaurant tonight. Want to come? Cue anxiety. How am I going to track and stay at my calorie target if I go? Something [...]
