Behaviour · 9 min The Forbidden Fruit Effect: Why Restriction Causes Bingeing The forbidden fruit effect is why restrictive diets often produce the bingeing they’re meant to prevent. Here’s what’s actually going on, and what works.
Nutrition · 4 min Do Probiotic Supplements Work? Not for Healthy Adults Probiotic supplements sound convincing. But 22 randomised trials found they don’t work for healthy adults. Here’s what the evidence says.
Nutrition · 4 min Meal Timing: Why Getting It Wrong Isn’t Your Problem Meal timing is one of fitness’s most obsessed-over topics. Here’s what the research actually shows, and why getting it wrong probably isn’t your problem.
Nutrition · 4 min How Much Protein Do You Actually Need? The Answer Is a Range, Not a Number Most gym-goers are obsessing over a precise daily protein target that doesn’t exist. Here’s what the research actually shows and why consistency beats precision every time.
GLP-1 · 6 min Why You’re Losing Weight But Still Feel Weak on Mounjaro: Protein, Training and the 500-Calorie Rule Tell me if this sounds familiar. The scale is dropping, clothes fit better, and colleagues have started to comment. And yet stepping into the gym, or walking up a flight of stairs, or lifting a suitcase into the overhead locker, the body feels less capable than it used to. Feeling weak on Mounjaro is one […]
Nutrition · 6 min Why Calorie Counting Doesn’t Work – Or Does It? Calorie counting gets a bad rap for being imperfect. But it doesn’t need to be perfect – it just needs to create a feedback loop. Here’s why that changes everything.
Nutrition · 3 min The Cheat Meal Paradox – Why It Makes Your Diet Harder Most people think cheat meals help their diet. The science says otherwise. Here’s why that Saturday takeaway is keeping you from making weight—and what to do instead.
Nutrition · 4 min A Quick And Complete Guide To Creatine Of all the supplements available, creatine is the one I’m asked about most frequently: There’s good reason for creatine’s popularity. It’s one of the most well-known and widely available supplements. Unfortunately, it’s often surrounded by misinformation and confusion. If you’re like my clients—interested in gaining muscle, looking better, performing stronger, and feeling great—creatine is one […]
Fat Loss · 4 min Are Low Carb Diets Better For Fat Loss? Low-carb dieting has grown in popularity since the early 2000s when the Atkins diet first picked up momentum. After decades of being told to avoid fat, the idea that you could eat bacon and still somehow lose weight seemed like the most exciting thing in the world. Since then its popularity has only grown as […]
Nutrition · 10 min A Full & Practical Guide To Protein This post is designed to give you everything you need to know about protein to get started on a diet. We’re going to look at: This, of course, doesn’t cover everything, and there are always higher levels of detail that can be used, but for almost all intents & purposes, this will cover everything you’ll […]
