IIFYM 101 | Should I do IIFYM? | Macros: A Visual Guide For decades, the number of calories you ate in a day was the end of the story. Stay in a deficit, and you’d supposedly lose weight. Slip into—or dive into—caloric excess, and you’d gain weight. That approach worked for some people, but for plenty …
Meal Plans vs. Flexible Dieting for Fat Loss
Losing fat, or cutting, isn’t easy. Further complicating matters are the dozens of fad diets all promising substantial weight loss in only a few days’ time. Most of them amount to starvation wrapped in really attractive marketing. That’s where we come in: with help in sorting through the hype. These two …
Is A “Refeed” The Key To Successful Dieting?
Dieting can be grueling, inconvenient, and exhausting, especially when you’re doing it for weeks or months consistently. But that raises a question: Does it really have to be consistent 24/7 to work? Or is a window of normalcy—maybe not a full-on “cheat,” but something more strategic—enough to alter your results one way or another? …
5 Dieting Mistakes You Must Avoid To Achieve Success
Diet dilemmas got you down? Feeling like you can’t stick to a plan, or curb the cycle of over- and undereating? Step away from the skinny tea and stop the “Super-Fast Hardcore Abs in Six Days” program. There is hope for a better nutrition plan, friend. You’re not the only one struggling to maintain …
If Dieting Won't Get You Lean, What Will?
I used to only care about numbers on the scale, letting my weight motivate me rather than how healthy I felt. I dieted to lose weight on the scale, and exercised to burn calories rather than building calorie-burning muscle. At 5-foot-6, I set a goal of being 120 pounds. This number fell at the low […]