The second principle of Intuitive Eating put forth by Tribole and Resch is “Honor your Hunger.” Here’s their introduction to the principle: ”Keep your body fed biologically with adequate energy and carbohydrates. Otherwise, you can trigger a primal drive to overeat. Once you reach the moment of excessive hunger, all intentions of moderate, conscious eating [...]
People often ask me, “What do I need to do to eat a healthy diet?” I have a hard time answering this question because it seems so simple, but it’s not. We live in a society that’s filled with loads of bad, useless and even harmful information about food. Where do I begin to answer [...]
I used to hate going to the gym, now I just don’t like it very much. There’s always that one smelly guy, there’s the twenty year old texting in front of the free weights, and that “cougar” woman wearing way too much perfume (even if she were at a night club). But weight lifting transforms [...]
There are a few times over the course of our lives that we tend to gain weight. Most kids get a little chubby before hitting puberty. Some people get the “freshman ten” (or fifteen or twenty) when they leave home for the first time. Many people gain weight when they get married. Women naturally [...]
You can do lots of things with a pair of vise-grips. I’ve pulled screws out of walls (don’t ask), used them as a hammer (but only when a shoe with a substantial heel was unavailable), used them as a wrench (I stripped many nuts on my bicycle by using vise-grips instead of the right sized [...]