Simple Steps for New Year's Success

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It’s New Year’s Resolution time! I can tell a lot of people made them this year because I’ve been inundated with questions on how to actually stick to them this time. We all joke about how quickly we abandon New Year’s Resolutions, yet we make them year after year for a reason. It’s natural to want to improve yourself, and it’s also perfectly natural to stumble along the way and fall back into old habits.

To help everyone get off to a fast start, I wanted to give some simple tips to help you ease into your resolutions. Everyone wants fast results, but starting too quickly is more likely to lead to abandoning your resolutions than to success. These are some simple behaviors you can adopt that will set the base for new habits later. Just because something feels hard doesn’t mean it works better, and these tips will show you how easy making positive changes can be.

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Assume your workout burned zero calories

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”I’m eating right and exercising every day and the weight isn’t coming off. Why isn’t it working?”

I get this question almost daily from frustrated dieters. There are all kinds of reasons results stall out, but this week I want to focus on a mistake I’ve seen thousands of people make over the years: they count their workout calories. I’ll go over why that sabotages results and 5 tips to increase fat-burning with exercise.

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Your microbiome helps you absorb calories

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We evolved to thrive in an environment where food is scarce. One essential survival tool your body used then and continues to use today is the microbiome. Aside from all the other health benefits provided by the trillions of microorganisms living in your digestive system, they also work as a customizable digestive organ that aids in squeezing as many calories and nutrients as possible from the foods available in your environment. Learn which foods train your microbiome to increase fat absorption and storage and how to stop it.

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CICO diet - everything old is new again

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The exciting new fad diet popularized by Reddit is the CICO diet. This “new” concept stands for Calories In Calories Out, and the basic idea is you can eat anything you want as long as you burn more calories than you consume. This week I’ll dig into the philosophy to see if it’s really right for you.

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