Nutrition

If there were one small thing that improved your sleep, kindled vivid dreams nightly, enhanced mental health and assisted weight loss, would you be interested? It won’t cost much; nor will it take up much time. You in? Are you ready to make your own yogurt? You probably thought I was selling you a pill. Nah, Homie, it’s a yogurt maker. Unfortunately it’s not covered by insurance.

Losing weight is hard. The human experience has drastically changed in our lifetime, and our bodies haven’t adapted yet. If only there were a few easy things we could do to help us lose weight…

Nutritional advice changes pretty quickly. One minute they’re telling us to fast, then fasting can kill us, then, wait a minute, fasting is back; only this time make it an olive oil fast.

Megan is using a continjous glucose monitor in an attempt to improve her already formidable fitness. I sent her some questions I had about the CGM. You can read her answers below.

A few weeks ago I wrote about my colleague Megan’s amazing results using a Continuous Glucose monitor (CGM). She leaned out, improved athletic performance (WON her most recent race) and improved her sleep, anxiety & recovery. She went from great to greater. Naturally I had to experiment myself.

Let’s do sit ups. I need to burn the fat around my lower abs.’ We get this one a lot. And ya know what, I don’t even correct people any more. As soon as I start to explain what’s wrong with that statement the eyes glaze over and their shoulders slump. No one wants the Truth.

You’re dialed in. You see your trainer 2 x’s a week. You run 3 x’s a week. You do yoga 2x’s a week. Your waistline is NOT shrinking. Why won’t the weight come off?

My friend, who recommended I try intermittent fasting, sent me a study linking intermittent fasting to early death. Don’t worry it’s one study, but “People who followed a pattern of eating all of their food across less than 8 hours per day had a 91% higher risk of death due to cardiovascular disease.”

There’s no such thing as the greatest snack, but I love pistachios and what makes them great lets us talk about some important, albeit overlooked facets of nutrition.  Let’s get nuts!

Over eating. On Thanksgiving it’s expected; the rest of the year we try not to; but let’s face it: we are over-served everywhere we go. Quantifying food, counting calories, is notoriously difficult and imprecise. How much eating is over eating? How do we know we’ve had enough? How can we stop before it’s too late?