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CICO Explained
You probably have a friend who has told you that "a calorie is not a calorie". Most likely, you also have another friend informing you that calories are the only thing that matters. Maybe you think your emotional well-being is ultimately dependant on being in a caloric deficit because that is the only way you will feel amazing like you did when you were 25, and you were twenty pounds lighter. Maybe calories in a label is that magic number that makes you feel either guilty or guilt-free after eating food. Yup, calories, what a unit measure! Kilometers, Celsius Degrees, Yards, Newtons, Watts, Nanoseconds, none of the other unit measures have this emotional and manipulative power over us. Well, watch the video today to get some clarity on the topic. Nerd alert! There is some heavy math in it! No, not really. Enjoy!
- Close the Gap | Coaching | Finding What Works for You | Fitness | How to be a learner? | Mindset | Smart Practices
Banzo's sword and metric fixations
Are you a victim of your metrics? Are you constantly trying to better your metrics, just to feel frustrated and unaccomplished? I have been there, it is awful. In this post I present to you a set of principles that will help you use metrics to serve you and not the other way around.
My Bias IN NUTRITION: Mobile Control
In my last post I said that when it came to nutrition stating one’s bias was a token of intellectual honesty I respected. I realized that I have never stated my bias in this blog. I have said it a thousand times when asked by people on what is my approach to nutrition, or when doing food presentations. But I have never given it a good and thorough characterization. Here’s how we fix that. A caveat: this will always be a work in progress. My purpose in life is to always keep learning. And learning will definitely make me question my own assumptions and change my point of view. This means you are just reading version 1.0 of my bias.
- Close the Gap | Finding What Works for You | Nutrition | Nutrition Science | The Value of Good Nutrition
The 15-minute lunch break
Often the most laborious work is the most neglected and underestimated. When it comes to nutrition, my experience tells me that most of us focus on the things that we have little or none control over. We fool ourselves thinking we can eat a given number of grams of carbohydrates, or the total number of calories, or a specific window of time. Yet, the things that are entirely under our control, like how we eat and how much attention we pay to the actual act of eating, we neglect. The video this week presents a simple idea, if you want to call it a hack so that it sounds sexier, go ahead. It is an excellent complement to the blog post from two weeks ago. It also contains all the right numbers and science behind it.
Eating in the car
My job as a fitness coach is to help people create the habits necessary to achieve their goals. Most of the time those habits go very much against traditional cultural practices, sometimes they go against my trainee’s very identity. This means there can be a great deal of resistance involved in changing habits. When I ask people to eat veggies for breakfast they usually look at me as if I were completely insane.
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Flo's Brain Grass Supplement
The fitness industry is a behemoth and it is growing with no signs of slowing down. Everyday there’s newer and crazier services that promise better results than everything that has been done before. Check out this underwater training. Or this new nutritional fad that can tell you exactly when to eat according to your circadian rhythm . Even classic old fads like the universal gym machine are coming back in its digital versions. For each macronutrient there is a corresponding diet, and a group of followers. For each type of movement a big believer and a naysayer. The internet does not seem big enough to hold all the new fitness out there.
