Nutrition Timing – Weight Lifting Intra Workout
Weight training is a different animal than most any other sport when it comes to consuming calories while working out. Unless you are lifting for several hours at one time, there isn’t really a sufficient amount of time to utilize a mass amount of macro’s while you lift. [...]
Nutrition Timing – Weight Lifting Pre-Workout
Maximizing your time in the gym really starts in the kitchen with nutrition and nutrition timing. For the average person, when you eat really doesn’t have a whole lot of sound science backing up fat loss or improved overall health. However, for athletes looking to thrust forward in [...]
How Do I Eat Healthy
How many times have you heard, “just eat healthy and workout and all your troubles will disappear.”? The elusiveness of this general blanket statement leaves so many feeling more lost than prior to receiving this -usually unsolicited- advice. Which is why I often get the plead “Cathleen, how [...]
The Top 5 Dieting Tips of All Time
Still dieting huh? I do indeed have a list of what I consider to be the top 5 dieting tips, of all time, in the history of man, since the 7th day… you get the idea. The number one reason most people around the world start a diet [...]
More Protein
As you recall from my previous article regarding protein there are many resources available to get the amount of protein required for athletes or anyone living more than just a sedentary lifestyle. Yet, the question continues to be asked: “Coach, how much protein do I really need?”, and [...]
The Sweet Sugary Truth
Fructose, sucrose, maltose, lactose, dextrose, glucose; what’s the difference? Imitation sugars or sugar substitutes are continuing to gain popularity, but why? The world is still getting fatter even with new information and education, how can this be? Welcome to the sweet controversy of the decade. Leading expert, Dr. [...]
Carbohydrates
The dreaded carbohydrate is receiving a pretty bad rap in the diet industry today. Why is this? Could it possibly be because more than 80% of most Americans diets consist of greasy, processed/refined carbs? Put simply, carbohydrates are NOT bad. They are an essential nutrient that is required [...]
Eat To Live, Or Live To Eat
“Oh please, you can eat anything you want and never get fat.” or “You should totally eat that; your so skinny.” are really statements that should be responded with “You’re really fat, you shouldn’t be eating that.”. For some people it may be polite behavior or perhaps jealousy [...]
A Bit of Protein
DISCLAIMER-This article is not intended to discourage or encourage any particular protein source but rather to enlighten and inform people of your choices. Please accept my opinion within the text as just that. I’m not a scientist, food chemist or nutritionist but here you are reading my article [...]
Nutrition Addiction or Pleasure Consumption
Do you have a dietary vice? In the nutrition realm what is really considered “bad”? I have heard a myriad of different things over the years, “I only NEED to drink one Coke a day.” or “I eat really well, I only consume 800 calories a day, from [...]
Surviving and Dieting VS Thriving and Fueling
Diet diet diet.. Atkins, weight watchers, Paleolithic, Runners, HCG, vegetarian, Mediterranean, heart healthy diet, 40-30-30, pescetarian, raw, frutarian, vegan and on and on; BLEAH! Its no wonder people have a difficult time knowing what the “true” way to eat is. Choosing a specific way to eat is just [...]