Nutrition & Weight Loss

How and Why to Reform Your Eating and Drinking Habits

May 2, 2012

One way of looking at habits is that they are repeated actions that get executed unconsciously. In this post I’m addressing eating and drinking habits. What you eat and drink is extremely important. Reforming your eating and drinking habits creates real health transformations occur. Habits Gone Awry The other day, I noticed someone with a [...]

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It Affects Everything You Do and You’re Probably Doing It Wrong

April 25, 2012

Eating. As kids our eating instincts were perverted by well-meaning but misguiding parents. And then there were the breakfast cereal advertisements. Not well-meaning. Shilling sugar to unsuspecting kids who would then persuade parents to buy garbage. Now there is the portion size problem. This runs into the “Well there are starving kids in [insert country [...]

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Starving Your Way to Vigor (from Harper’s Magazine)

March 11, 2012

I glanced at the magazine rack while doing some shopping this morning and an article in Harper’s magazine caught my eye: Starving Your Way to Vigor: The Benefits of an Empty Stomach The article started off with a story about a man who wanted to end his life. He decided to starve himself to death. [...]

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Ben Franklin Eating Advice

March 2, 2012

If you’ve been following my blog, you’ve noticed I’ve been paying more attention to diet. I started reading Tilden and his rules of eating, and then quickly realized I had a food addiction. Awareness is always the first step. Then, it helps to seek out motivation that encourages you to change in the direction you [...]

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Eating in A Whole, New Way

February 13, 2012

Eating plays a huge role in our culture. What we eat and how we eat is so habituated that trying to change is hard. But if you’re getting sick, getting fat, getting tired, etc. the first place to look is your diet. Ever since reading John Tilden’s books on food and toxemia, I’ve been even [...]

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Weight Loss: Two Key Dietary Changes

December 21, 2011

In 2004, I bought a book called Sugar Blues. The book spends 256 pages railing on sugar. If you need a reminder for how bad sugar is, you should buy the book and read it. If you already know that sugar is bad, are you still eating it? Most likely you are, whether you want [...]

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Mouth Responsibility

October 6, 2011

Whoa, this page has moved. Go there now!

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Fix these things and lose weight

September 8, 2011

Look, I’m not a nutritionist (yet) but I do possess a degree in common sense. If you’re gaining weight, you’re eating too much. Calories are the culprit. It doesn’t matter when you eat, how much you eat at at one individual meal (unless it’s 4,000 calories), or what you eat—it just matters how many calories [...]

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Alcohol and Exercise

August 14, 2011

I grew up in Wisconsin. A local city, Milwaukee, goes by the nickname Brew City. An old joke is that you’ll never freeze to death in a Milwaukee winter if you just stop at every bar on the way home. There is a clear culture of alcohol here. It’s acceptable. It’s cool. It’s also a [...]

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Small changes make a big difference

July 22, 2010

I remember one morning back in 2002. Sitting in my cube, enjoying one of the perks of my new office job–free soda–I found myself disgusted that over the course of the morning I had consumed six Mountain Dews.

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