Eating “Snout to Tail” – A Terrifying Experiment

January 5, 2011

Self-experimentation is essential for discovering what works for you and what doesn’t. You can read about theory all day, but if it doesn’t work to give you the results you want, you’d better ditch it. Despite having spent the majority of the past 10 years obsessing over health, trying new things periodically to shift my […]

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Celebrating the Holidays – Rocky IV Style!

January 3, 2011

Saludos amigos! I hope you all had a great holiday season, took some much-needed rest, hung out with friends and family, and enjoyed pigging out without being too neurotic about calorie counts. I spent some time visiting my parents out in the backwoods of Minnesota, and managed to stay physically active the entire time. The […]

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The Recession Diet – Food Porn and Troubleshooting

January 1, 2011

$48.21. 2 hours 56 minutes of food preparation. And I’m set for an entire week. No junk food, and no starvation. You too can eat well with minimal investment of time and money, as I hope I have proven to you by now. A Confession First off, I’m gonna level with ya: I didn’t exactly […]

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The Recession Diet – How to Cook a Week’s Worth of Food in 2 Hours 56 Minutes

December 21, 2010

Perhaps the best thing you can do to lose fat and eat better is learn how to cook. But who has the time? You do. In less than 3 1/2 hours per week, you can prepare more than 20,000 kcalories from scratch, enough for a week’s worth of food. That’s an average of less than […]

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The Recession Diet – How to Eat Like a Champion on $48.21 a Week

December 15, 2010

Let’s face it, the economy sucks. Housing bubbles, jobless recoveries, and laughably insignificant raises… it’s getting tough to justify spending a lot of money on food. But using that as an excuse to simply eat less is wrong-headed. When it comes to optimizing your diet to favor fat loss and muscle growth, quality trumps quantity. But […]

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How to Automate Your Diet for Painless Fat Loss and Superior Health

December 12, 2010

Looking to get lean, attractive, and more energetic? Wondering where to start? Well, 80% of your body composition and overall health is the direct result of the food you eat. So if you want to get studly, the first thing you should do is overhaul your diet. But the conventional wisdom of cutting back on […]

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Dude, Where’s My Willpower?

December 2, 2010

Where’s Your Willpower, Dude? Have you ever felt that you are in a constant battle with your body? That it wants nothing more than to lose muscle and gain fat, when you want it to do the exact opposite? And no time more than when you’ve been heeding the advice of your favorite health guru […]

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