Ya know when you see a skinny-fat woman in her third hour on the treadmill? Or when you see an obese man doing dumbbell shrugs? I have a shoulder-shriveling, neck-quivering, lower-lip-retracting, full-body-grimacing sort of physical response to this kind of sight. Do they KNOW?! I mean, I’m completely aware that I can’t just walk […]
Surefire Mindsets for Fitness Stagnation
You can follow all the best fitness programs yet still find yourself in a rut if you’re adhering to any of these mindset traps guaranteed to halt your progress. There are two extremes for either pitfall. The not-so-secret secret is to put in the effort to create a balance in your training. Expecting Perfection […]
Failproof Your Diet
Most diets work. All of the ones Pat puts out certainly do; they are based on science (right? who knew?), so there’s really no arguing. The catch is–come a little closer so that I can tell you the secret–you have to actually follow it. The sad and unfortunate truth is that most people just don’t. […]
Don’t Be a Jerk Friend: How to support a dieter
If you had an alcoholic friend… Would you invite him to a bar on Friday night? Would you throw a party and supply a keg in his honor? Would you offer him a beer when he came over to watch the big game? Au contraire, you say! You would try to think of other activities […]
What Your Dieting Friend Wants You to Know
#1. Just because you’ve been on a diet before, you are not Omniscient Godmaster of Dieting. I’m no stranger to atypical dieting, and I’ve developed some pretty thick skin for the comments and questions of others during various “nutritional phases” I have traversed. First, let me say that I eat atypically 99.9% of the time. […]