Many times when you hear about bulking (adding muscle and fat) and cutting (stripping fat) cycles, you think of male body builders.  You may even think about women body builders.  But are bulking and cutting cycles for the average woman? My opinion is that it depends on where you are at with your current level [...]

I’m going to fess up right now.  Today I made beef stew for dinner and I put some potatoes in it!  I know, I k now, I can hear the gasps already.  But I did have a method to my madness so let me explain. First, it’s important to note that I’ve lost a fair [...]

I get email regularly from clients looking to lose fat and often I’m asked which diet they should follow, a low carbohydrate diet or a low fat diet. The best diet watches both.  But you can move either way on spectrum where as you add more carb, you have to take out more fat.  And, [...]

In our ever fattening society, many of you are wondering why it’s so easy to gain fat.  It’s not that you try.  You certainly don’t want to be fat.  Yet year over year the midsection expands and you look, feel and are fatter and fatter. While gaining fat is not inevitable, you need to understand [...]

I recently saw someone on Facebook ‘dis’ coffee as though it was the devil’s brew.  Now maybe it was because I happened to be sipping on a steaming mug of joe or just because I felt that a fair and balanced opinion was the right thing to do but I took her on. This person’s [...]

My family and I took an extended weekend off from most of our normal activities. I have a niece that got married this last weekend and because my husband was part of the wedding, we got invited to the rehearsal dinner. Not much of that was on my diet but the apricot pie was ‘to [...]

For most of us, eating unhealthy foods is the norm. We are surrounded by food choices that are stuffed with empty calories which leaves us under nourished and over weight. Eating healthy isn’t something that we can just will ourselves into. The environment we live in does not support it. Food manufacturers, including companies that [...]

As important as it is to ‘bring it’ to your exercise, you need to watch what you eat for significant results. A great nutrition plan will lead to a great transformation while a poor nutrition plan ends up leaving you frustrated at putting in hours of time exercising without seeing much gain. I’ve already covered [...]

Hi Everyone, I get a lot of questions about diet. How many calories should I (you) eat? Why the 40/40/20  ratio of carb/protein/fat for calories? Can I (you) change the 40/40/20 ratio to something else? Do I (you) have to measure & count everything? Do you have sample menus? How much or what can I [...]

Too often when I read through recommended diets for building lean bodies I see the same ol’ list of plain oatmeal (no milk), egg white omletes (you gotta be kidding me) and broiled chicken breast with steamed veggies with no salt.  No wonder so many people struggle with the diet part of the program! Now [...]