Healthy Eating Tips

A lot of people ask me what they should be eating or whether I have any helpful tips. Here are what I believe are the foundations of a healthy diet. There are a lot more, but this is a good foundation to build on.
1. Whole Foods 
Avoid processed junk. Look past the nutrition facts and read… [Continue Reading]

How Diet Soda Makes You Fat

I stumbled across this video today on Twitter while talking with a friend.  I don’t say this often, but YOU SIMPLY MUST WATCH THIS.  The following video explains how the modern American diet, including the highly coveted Diet Soda, is very acidic.  The video also explains what these acidic foods are doing to our bodies… [Continue Reading]

Stages of change: What stage do you want to be in?

Believe it or not there actually are defined stages of change. They are

Precontemplation: “I can’t” or “I won’t” If you are in this stage and want to move on, try separating the real barriers from the excuses. This will give you clarity and help you to move on.
Contemplation: “I may” If you find yourself saying… [Continue Reading]

Free Radicals – Not so rad after all.

There is a lot of valuable research about free radicals.  What is a “free radical”?  The scientific answer is a an atom or group of atoms with an odd (unpaired) number of electrons and can be formed when oxygen interacts with certain molecules.  Essentially, the free radicals are a form of oxidation, like rust on… [Continue Reading]

P90X Nutrition Plan Made Easy

UPDATE – December 29, 2009.  Over the past year or so we have gotten a lot of questions about this post and it has generated a lot of attention.  One major development since we originally did this post was the introduction of Shakeology to the Beachbody line of supplements.  Shakeology is hard to define in… [Continue Reading]

One Pound of Fat vs. One Pound of Muscle

One pound of muscle and one pound of fat are NOT the same size.
If I place one pound of muscle on a scale and one pound of fat on a scale, they will both weigh one pound. The difference is in total volume. One pound of muscle may appear to be the size of… [Continue Reading]