Video | Study | Why TRE Works | Calories | Food Choices | “Exercise Snacks” | Takeaway
The five criteria of metabolic syndrome include a large waist circumference, high blood pressure, high blood glucose, high triglycerides, and low HDL cholesterol. When at least three of these conditions are present, metabolic syndrome is diagnosed.
An excessive intake of unhealthy foods is a primary contributing factor to metabolic syndrome. Calorie restriction mitigates this problem. However, success requires consistent adherence to a calorie deficit over a long period of time.
If restricting calories hasn’t worked for you, timing when you eat might help.
That is according to a brand new, well-designed study. This blog post shares how time-restricted eating with or without calorie restriction improves metabolic markers and how you can do what the study participants did to get similar results for yourself.
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Video | The Fasting Paradox | Craving Triggers | Hydration | Short Fasts | Understanding Hunger
Intermittent fasting is the practice of consuming your daily calories during a shortened eating window. Doing this helps you stabilize blood sugar levels and naturally reduce your calorie intake, leading to more efficient weight loss.
The challenge is that to get the benefits, you have to train your body to comfortably go for long periods without food. That is not a small obstacle, given today’s 24/7 access to highly appetizing foods. But anyone can achieve it with the right approach. This blog post shares four things that must be in place for fasting to work for you.
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Video | True Hunger vs. False Hunger | Using a Hunger Scale | Fasting Schedules | Metabolic Flexibility
The average person’s daily calorie consumption has increased by 24 percent since the 1960s (1).
Many factors contribute to this calorie explosion, from the processing of foods to the three-meal-a-day plus snacks mindset, to external cues that make us want to eat even when we aren’t hungry, think the late-night pizza commercial and the smell of fresh-baked cookies.
These extraneous factors make it very hard to tell the difference between true hunger, which is driven by your body’s physiological need for fuel, and false hunger, which is driven by other factors, including habits, routines, whims, and scarcity.
Learn how to tell the difference, and you create an effortless way to cut out hundreds of unneeded calories each day.
This blog post shares my hunger scale so you have a tool to help you gauge when to eat and when to fast. And I’ll share the trick for staying in the middle range so you move through your day feeling satisfied.
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