Fit vs Right | Brad Pilon's 'Eat Blog Eat'

June 23, 2014
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In the last couple of weeks I’ve spoken in-depth about the importance of focusing on what fits as opposed to focusing on what’s right.In other words, paying attention to what works for you as opposed to the specific reasons why different approaches MIGHT work.I guess another way of looking at is ‘application’ vs ‘theory’.As an example, Eat Stop Eat is the right ‘fit’ for me. Fasting once or twice a week for 24 (ish) hours works well FOR ME. It has worked for me for over 7 years and I’m guessing it will continue to work for me in the foreseeable future. Eat Stop Eat is what ‘fits’.Now, I could get easily get tangled up in how Eat Stop Eat is RIGHT.Maybe it’s the carbs. After all, I do go 24 hours twice a week where I have virtually no dietary glucose load.

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Reverse Taper Intermittent Fasting | Brad Pilon's 'Eat Blog Eat'

April 14, 2014
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The concept of the Reverse Taper Diets is still one of my favorite ideas.Without getting too technical, the concept was that you should be in your largest calorie deficit (eating the least amount of food) at the beginning of your diet, when you have the most fat to lose and thus the most fat available to be used as a fuel. Then, as you slowly lose fat you also slowly up your calories, ideally ending at a spot where you are eating maintenance level calories when you are at your leanest.The benefit of dieting in this manner is two fold: Firstly, you have much less risk of rebound weight gain. At the end of the diet, you would be eating exactly the amount you need to eat to maintain your new ideal body. Secondly, you would always have available energy so you could workout and so your energy levels didn’t diminish the further into the diet you lasted (lots of people complain about not having enough energy to workout by the end weeks of a traditional diet).The only problem that seems to come up with this  approach is that people don’t like to fiddle with their calories, and they also have a very hard time increasing their calories if they’re seeing really good  fat loss progress with the lower Calorie amounts.

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The truth about Calorie Deficits | Brad Pilon's 'Eat Blog Eat'

January 7, 2014
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By the strictest of definitions a calorie deficit means ‘any amount of calories that falls short of the amount of calories needed to fuel the energy needs of your body’. Or, put another way: A calorie deficit is any amount of calories that is unable to maintain a persons body mass.A calorie deficit is ANY amount of food that results in loss of body mass.By this definition you cannot be in a deficit if you are not losing body mass. You can be eating less, a little, not much, and not lose body mass since these are all subjective descriptions of an amount of food, but if you are eating less food than is required to provide the energy you need to power your daily activities then a loss of mass must occur. The loss may be small, barely noticeable except by the most advanced of scientific equipment, but it needs to be there.. and if it is there, then you were eating less calories than you needed.It does not matter if you were eating 700 calories or 7,00 Calories of some special super-scientific diet… If a loss of body mass occurred you were in a deficit, if it didn’t then you were not in a deficit.This is where experts and gurus prey on people – by playing with the meanings of words.  A deficit is NOT a number less than what a calculator told you to eat

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VIDEO: Blast Calories With This 10-Minute Tabata Workout!

December 22, 2013
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We love Tabata interval workouts. It’s four minutes of high-intensity training, alternating between 20 seconds of max training followed by a 10-second rest for a total of eight rounds. These workouts are fast-paced and fun and burn up tons of calories. In this workout, we bring you two sets of Tabata, plus a little warmup and cooldown

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Calorie Counting | Brad Pilon's 'Eat Blog Eat'

November 6, 2013
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Calorie counting is a weight loss tool. And it is a very valuable tool. There are many people who have successfully lost weight by doing nothing other than learning how to count calories and adjusting their diets accordingly.  However, in my mind Calorie counting should be used as a tool, not a crutch. You should be learning from calorie counting. In fact, after 2-3 months of Calorie counting you really shouldn’t need to count Calories anymore.Why?Because if you’ve been counting accurately for a couple of months then you should now know what the ‘right’ amount of food feels like.  After 3 months, you should know what ‘right’ feels like while eating a wide variety of foods, on the days you workout vs.

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HIIT: The Workout for Maximum Fat Burn in Minimal Time | Dr …

May 13, 2013
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One of the most common excuses people give for not exercising is that they don’t have time. And if you’re one of those folks who swears up and down that you don’t have an hour (or even 30 minutes) to spare for a workout, then HIIT is the perfect solution.What is HIIT?HIIT stands for High Intensity Interval Training, and it involves alternating between periods of intense exercise and brief recovery. The idea behind HIIT training is that you don’t allow your body to adjust to exercising at just one level of intensity, which enables you to essentially turn into a fat-burning machine. So what does an actual HIIT workout look like?

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10-Minute Tabata Interval Training Workout

April 14, 2013
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by Anna Renderer 1 Save1Favorite1When it comes to burning a lot of calories in little time, try Tabata. It’s a form of high-intensity interval training that alternates between 20 seconds of max training and 10-second rest periods for a total of eight rounds. These workouts are fast-paced and fun.This workout is made of two Tabata sets, plus a short warmup and cooldown. No equipment is necessary, and we keep track of the timing. So what are you waiting for

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10-Minute Tabata Interval Training Workout – Fitness

April 14, 2013
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by Anna Renderer 1 Save1Favorite5When it comes to burning a lot of calories in little time, try Tabata. It’s a form of high-intensity interval training that alternates between 20 seconds of max training and 10-second rest periods for a total of eight rounds. These workouts are fast-paced and fun.This workout is made of two Tabata sets, plus a short warmup and cooldown. No equipment is necessary, and we keep track of the timing

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10-Minute Tabata Interval Training Workout – FitSugar

April 14, 2013
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by Anna Renderer 2 Save1Favorite13When it comes to burning a lot of calories in little time, try Tabata. It’s a form of high-intensity interval training that alternates between 20 seconds of max training and 10-second rest periods for a total of eight rounds. These workouts are fast-paced and fun.This workout is made of two Tabata sets, plus a short warmup and cooldown. No equipment is necessary, and we keep track of the timing. So what are you waiting for

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Help with fasting | Brad Pilon's 'Eat Blog Eat'

January 30, 2013
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Every once in a while I get an email that reads something like this:I recently purchased your books and have been trying fasting for 2 months now. I fast for 24 hours twice a week, then on the days I’m not fasting for 24 hour I fast for 16 hours. I’m Paleo, except on weekends where I eat carbs, but only ever with protein (never with fat) I run 5 miles two to three times per week and I also do a spin class at least once a weekend. I am tracking my calories and I’m eating about 1000 to 1200 daily, I’m 5’6?, 155lbs

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