Category: Nutrition
How Weekend Binges Can Destroy Your Fat Loss Efforts If you ever wonder why you've gained fat while eating and exercising well for most of the week then it it’s not your metabolism that is broken or damaged, it could be the binge eating on weekend or any other day of the week. Binge eating on any day of the week can not only [...]
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Overnight Weight Gain Factors If you stepped on the scale one morning and wondered, “Why did I gain weight overnight?”, then you are not alone. It’s a more common experience than you might think. Most importantly, it’s not actual fat gain but temporary weight gain due to various factors discussed below. Overnight weight gain is not unusual and generally [...]
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How to Track Macros using MyFitnessPal App MyFitnessPal is a smartphone app and website that helps you to track your nutrition and exercise. To track your nutrition, you can either scan the barcodes of various food items or manually find them in the app's large pre-existing database. In this article, we’ll show you how to use the MyFitnessPal app to track your [...]
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The Importance of Fiber The importance of macronutrients (proteins, carbohydrates, and fats) for health, performance, and body composition are well known. Fiber is technically not considered a macronutrient, but due to its importance in optimizing health & recovery and promoting healthy digestion, detoxification & blood sugar balance it is practically the “fourth macronutrient”. What is Fiber? Fiber is a [...]
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Nutrition Label Catchphrases & Deceptions The food we eat impacts our training, strength, performance and muscle growth. Therefore, it is important to intelligently select what we eat and consequently get the most out of our carefully planned diets and rigorous training regimes. Food items come in wrappers or boxes, which have labels printed on them. You can learn how to [...]
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UNDERSTANDING NUTRITION LABELS The food we eat impacts our training, strength, performance and muscle growth. Therefore, it is important to manage what we eat and consequently get the most out of our carefully planned diets and rigorous training regimes. Choice of food items contributes to a healthy diet. Food items come in wrappers or boxes, which have labels [...]
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Science of Nutrient Timing for Fat Loss, Muscle Gain & Strength This is the fifth in the series of six articles. It is intended to help people arrive at informed decisions about their nutrition program for muscle gain and fat loss so that they can make the right decisions and also avoid mistakes when implementing a fitness training program. It is not intended as a substitute [...]
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Science of Micronutrients Intake for Fat Loss, Muscle Gain & Strength This is the fourth in the series of six articles, it is intended to help people arrive at informed decisions based on science about their nutrition requirements and program for fat loss, muscle gain and building strength so that they can avoid making mistakes. It is not intended as a substitute for medical advice or [...]
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Science of Macronutrients Intake for Fat Loss, Muscle Gain & Strength This is the third of the series of six articles, it is intended to help people arrive at informed decisions based on science about their nutrition requirements and program for fat loss, muscle gain and building strength so that they can avoid making mistakes. It is not intended as a substitute for medical advice or [...]
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NUTRITION FOR FAT LOSS, MUSCLE GAIN AND STRENGTH This series of articles, in six parts including this introduction, is intended to help people arrive at informed decisions about their nutrition requirements and program for fat loss, muscle gain and building strength so that they can avoid making mistakes. It is not intended as a substitute for medical advice or medical treatment. INTRODUCTION We [...]
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