Category Archives: Nutrition

Here’s how it should look in general: On most days, begin & stop eating at approximately the same time. Don’t eat too close to bedtime. Don’t be too religious about it; if you’re very hungry, you should probably eat. This entrains your biological systems to perform at their best.

Even though the ‘technical’ answer is yes, for you & me, it does not matter. What matters is that you’re still allowing your digestive system adequate time without shoving in lots of solid food. Follow the principles of intermittent fasting … and be practical about it – not religious. For example, also, if one morningContinue reading “Does A Little Oat Milk Break My Fast?”

I often hear people say that they ‘fell off the wagon’. That’s a myth: there is no wagon. I understand what they mean, but the reality is that whatever you’ve been doing or not doing is a part of the wagon of life. You don’t selectively get on & off of life.

What matters most with regards to your nutrition is not what any paper, book, article, or even coach says. What matters most is what actually happens in your life when you eat various foods. Don’t forget that; many people do.

I rarely ever go out to dinner at a restaurant hungry. Even if I know that I’m going to love the food – especially if I know that I’m going to love the food – I never want to arrive at a restaurant too close to ‘starving’. Otherwise, I’ll be tempted to order too muchContinue reading “Pre-Dinner”

When I was ‘fat Matt’, I used love making tuna melts on a big bagel, using store-made tuna salad (which was heavy with conventional, soy-based, highly refined mayonnaise), and cheese. I still make tuna melts at home today; I simply use different ingredients; pole-caught, mercury tested tuna, almond flour tortillas, non-dairy cheese, and avocado-based mayo.Continue reading “‘Hold The Junk’”

You can eat a lot of food, maintain a body weight which you are happy with, and be healthy. In other words, it is not true that you need to starve yourself to be happy & healthy in body & mind. In fact, if you think about it, ‘starving’ is not a very happy conceptContinue reading “Starvation Is Not Happy”