3 Lessons I learned at Christmas Dinner

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

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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The Breakfast Meal

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)

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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Intermittent Fasting, in simple words

It is a very popular and highly controversial way of dieting at the same time. Intermittent Fasting or IF, is a diet protocol that promises fat loss and muscle hypertrophy with the fastest results.

Reality or fantasy?

Too much stuff have been written about it and nowadays almost everyone in the fitness industry is advocating intermittent fasting.

So without further ado, let’s see what’s true and what’s not, and how YOU could benefit from intermittent fasting.

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9 Meal Prep Tips for Optimal Cooking

Ever started a diet only to fail after a couple of days because you didn’t have time to cook? Been there done that!

After years of trying to cope with meal prep and reading countless articles and threads on forums, I decided to write down the most underrated but yet valuable tips regarding meal prep.

Are you ready for it?

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