Diet

3 Mistakes about New Year’s Resolutions and How to Fix Them

5 January 2017
Nasos Psarrakos
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Categories: Diet, Motivation

So you’re fooling around social media and everybody’s talking about new year’s resolutions. For some reason, the theme “weight loss” or “fat loss” keeps coming around this time of the year. The beginning.

And for some reason you chose, to read my article. Let’s see why.

Most people think of a great goal on on January first, mainly after a couple of drinks and extreme binge eating, that they will be losing 5, 10 or 15kg this year.

Obviously, they had the same goal last year, but for some reason, it didn’t work out so good. So what should you do?

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3 Lessons I learned at Christmas Dinner

27 December 2016
Nasos Psarrakos
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Categories: Diet

It’s a day after holiday dinner (any holiday) and you’re thinking of all the binging and all those sweets you had last night. You’re thinking that this is a total setback and the efforts and sleepless nights that you had planning out your future self, just took a major hit.

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How to Eat while on Vacation

11 December 2016
Nasos Psarrakos
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Categories: Diet

I have been away from my home this week. Specifically, I have been in Dallas, TX for some business meetings and a lot of people asked me what were my eating patterns while away from home.

Thought I would share with you how I eat while on vacation in general. At least in most occasions. It’s actually a very standard process for the last 2 years.

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4 Tips to Overcome a Weight Loss Plateau

29 November 2016
Nasos Psarrakos
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Categories: Diet

It’s 8am, you just woke up and looking forward to going up on the scale. You realize that you didn’t hit your target weight for the week.

“OMG, What am I gonna do?”

You have hit  a weight loss plateau.

Panic enters your brain and your heart beats too fast because you have become angry and a little stressed. You are in a dead end, you know that you’ve got to do something but you don’t know what that is.

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The Top 10 Fitness & Health Books

22 November 2016
Nasos Psarrakos
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Categories: Diet

Books are boring, they are used for decorating a library in the living room, or as a door stopper. Also, my personal favorite, to lift the screen of your computer. So what is about books why people keep publishing them.

Well, it’s because books are the most complete, dense and worthy source of information. Articles can be written by anyone. But writing a book takes courage and time, which very few are willing to sacrifice for the education of others. (Like we do @ Dutrition).

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7 Tips to Stick to Your Diet

15 November 2016
Nasos Psarrakos
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Categories: Diet

When was the last time you tried to lose some weight? Went on a diet for a couple of weeks, the scale didn’t move much and you just returned to your old habits?

Sticking to a diet is a bitch. No more than 20%[1] are actually losing the weight and keeping it off.

But that 80% didn’t have my advice. You will not be in the 80%, you will be one of the few that have the knowledge to keep being on a diet for as long as they want.

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The Breakfast Meal

8 November 2016
Nasos Psarrakos
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Categories: Diet

One of the hottest topics around dieting is breakfast. I see so many people struggle with their diet and yet they make all these awful choices of foods that really don’t help them attain their goal. Believe it or not, there are actually people thinking that breakfast is a mandatory meal of the day (God forbid if you want to skip it) and the most healthy choice would be a toast with cheese and turkey, and a glass of orange juice (that’s for getting every vitamin you need, when you only get a small amount of Vitamin C).

Yet day in day out, the scale doesn’t move, the energy levels drop, and everyone goes around wondering what was that they did wrong.

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Building a Diet Plan: #2 Macronutrients (Macros)

16 June 2016
Nasos Psarrakos
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Categories: Diet

Macros are the key ingredient to a proper diet plan, period.

If you don’t know what macros are or you don’t know how to follow a good macros strategy, we got you covered. But we need to start from the top.

What we are going to learn in this post:

  • What are the nutrients (micro and macro)
  • What are the best foods that provide us with these nutrients
  • How to integrate them into our diet plan
  • Myths about macros
  • What are the guidelines for consumption of these nutrients
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Building a Diet Plan: #1 Calories

3 February 2016
Nasos Psarrakos
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Categories: Diet

Whatever is your fitness goal you need to have a plan. Failing to plan is planning for failure.

So I am going to give you a guide for making the best diet plan, from A to Z. Whether you are a beginner or a veteran in the sport of weight management, this guide will answer all of your questions.

You need to have adequate information in order to have a plan and follow it. When you are missing pieces of the puzzle, your plan is going to fall apart soon.

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3 Advanced Fat Loss Tips

11 January 2016
Nasos Psarrakos
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Categories: Diet, Training

Suppose you have been dieting for some time. Weight is being lost but it has slowed down a bit. You are being miserable from eating the same stuff every day.

Well done first of all. Not many have the courage to do that.

Now for pushing it a little further, I wanted to give you some tips that will really help you get rid of the final pounds.

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