Eating small frequent meals has been touted as a good way to boost your metabolism. In theory it seems sensible. In practice, it fails because 1. The quality of food is poor2. The quantity of the snack is too large3. There’s not enough rest for the digestive system4. It makes you obsessed about food and […]
I’m relatively new, to the coffee fanclub. I started around the time I was experimenting with the keto diet. Got hooked on it, and have stayed hooked since. At several points over the last ten years I’ve tried quitting and have been successful for several months at a stretch. But I always come back to […]
After an initial honeymoon of smooth weight loss on Paleo, which was macro agnostic (meaning, didn’t care about the macro nutrient ratios), I decided to experiment with the ketogenic diet. Purely out of scientific curiosity. There already was considerable overlap between my version of the paleo diet and the keto diet. Unintentionally, my consumption of […]
The title says diet(s) because I tried more than one pattern depending upon the phase of weight loss I was in. Overall however, I used the Paleo template. And I’ve mostly stuck with it over the last 10 years. Basic rules. No grains No sugar No dairy No processed foods No vegetable oils Unlimited meat, […]
I wrote up the second part of my weight loss story and it ended up being unsatisfactory because it turned into a rant. It turned into a rant mainly because I had only 4 hours of sleep last night. Which led me to this particular post. I should be writing what causes us to fail. […]
The picture you’re seeing on the left, is from 2010, I had restarted cycling after a long break. I weighed around 86kgs by that time. The picture on the right is from 2011. I’ve managed to stay the same weight since then, and even put on a little more muscle than then, teen years down […]
If you’re in your 30s, 40s or 50s and have had an x ray taken of your neck, which is quite likely because, most of you desk jockeys have neck pain- you might be able to see calcium deposits in your carotid arteries. That’s not normal. It is common, but not normal. That’s an important […]
There’s broadly, two kinds of back pain related to work. 1.Pain that occurs in a healthy back due to extreme force 2. Pain that occurs in an unstable back under normal load The first category is due to accidents.-fall from heights-attempting to lift weights that are several times your body weight-impact-sudden severe, uncontrolled twisting under […]