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Diet

The Importance of Your Diet

April 1, 2010

I recently signed up at the discussfitness.com forums and quite quickly learned something. I always knew diet was an important part of building muscle as an ectomorph, but even I didn’t even appreciate it enough. Here’s a nugget of information I found in this post:
How powerful is the effect of eating? Studies have been done on [...]

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In Praise of Milk

March 22, 2010

A few weeks back I wrote about the glass of milk habit, but because of my lack of interest in the scientific aspect of essentially everything I was unable to explain why milk is so super duper. Well Mehdi from stronglifts.com has written a great post about milk, and why it’s the ultimate post workout [...]

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The Tale of 1216 Calories (and What You Can Learn From It)

March 19, 2010

For the past few months I’ve been addicted to making my own beef burgers. The beef is 100% pure, Australian beef, it’s absolutely delicious and since it’s from Aldi, the burgers end up costing less than $2 each all up. Certainly worth it.
At first I’d eat about one burger at a time. This wasn’t anything [...]

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The Hunter-Gatherer Lifestyle

March 18, 2010

Over the past few months I’ve become increasingly interested in the Paleolithic or “caveman” diet and philosophy, promoted by folks like Mark Sisson of Mark’s Daily Apple and John Durant, who was somewhat recently interviewed by Stephen Colbert (video above). My understanding of this way of life is still fairly limited (having not lived in [...]

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The Glass of Milk Habit

February 25, 2010

Forming the strength training habit didn’t take too long for me. Eating enough calories on the other hand has been where I still fall down at times.
While I’m perfectly able to eat plenty of eggs, red meat, and fish on a daily basis – giving me all the calories and protein I need – it’s [...]

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The “Never Full” Philosophy

February 18, 2010

As a writer I’m always interested in hearing about new approaches to making the writing process effortless. One of the best ideas I ever came across was from Hemingway. Here’s his description of his method to simplify writing:
The best way is always to stop when you are going good and when you know what will [...]

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The Death of Meal Plans

February 15, 2010

I don’t like meal plans. They induce apathy towards eating (transforming it into a robotic, time-based chore), are often too big of a shift to conform to unless you have an enormous amount of will power and, unless individually prescribed, overlook the different tendencies and tastes of the ectomorph in question (you).
And for this reason [...]

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5 Things Homer Simpson Can Teach You About Eating More Food

February 8, 2010

I’m not alone in the fact that The Simpsons played a huge part in my childhood. The classic cartoon, somewhat scarily, educated me more than many years in school ever did and through reading between the lines and asking my parents “What does that mean?” I dissected decades of history and general knowledge that had [...]

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Unleash the Hunger Monster with Swimming

February 5, 2010

Seeing as my neighbors are on vacation for two weeks or so I thought I’d take a dip in their pool (I justify it with the fact that I’m looking after their mail while they’re away), and although I’m a absolutely hopeless swimmer, after a few uncoordinated and sluggish laps I got out and felt [...]

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Eat More Food with the Double Portion Habit

February 2, 2010

The simplest habits are often the ones we keep (humanity defaults to easy on average, which is mostly unfortunate) and this is perhaps the simplest diet habit you can adopt:
Double your portions.
Nope, you don’t have to eat double the portions, just make double the portions. For example, the next time you feel like eating a [...]

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