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The Gyoom Diet: or, Be Realistic Y’all

January 8, 2013
Advice from Experience, Hey, Friend
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So, I started this blog to talk about fitnessing in real-life, and one of the most important things I discovered in my ongoing quest for Healthy is that sustainability is key. Everything you do to be healthier should be with long term in mind.  FOR EXAMPLE.

There is this one diet I was SO EXCITED to try after hearing about it from my roommate at the time.  His name is Guillaume, he is from France, but this is AMERICA, so we called him Gyoom.

The diet was meant to give me abs (omg FINALLY) and eliminate any chance of my body even THINKING of creating fat, while making sure I was getting the nutrients in order to workout 7 – 8 hours a week. This was HEALTHY. I was going to be SHREDDED. Or as Gyoom called it, “shred.”

Here is the regimen: Read More

High Intensity Interval Training

January 3, 2013
Advice from Experience, Workouts
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Oh hey, is your resolution to burn off some fat? Yes, well, welcome to This Is What Everyone Wants Always.

Today we’re going to get all up on High Intensity Interval Training, or HIIT.  This is not the thing you do when you want to blast your lats or get huge biceps. This is the thing you do to burn fat in the most efficient way possible. And don’t we just love efficiency. Yes, we do.

WHAT IS THIS THING.

HIIT is alternating between short intervals of very high intensity cardio and low intensity cardio. Read More

How to Alcohol.

December 19, 2012
Advice from Experience
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Okay urrbody, here is the most important post ever: how do you fitness and alcohol at the same time?

This is very difficult, and please note, you should never do both at the EXACT same time. This is dangerous, and will prevent you from doing either effectively.

No, we’re talking about doing them both at the same time in the LIFESTYLE sense. Because in life, we are always fitnessing. But sometimes, we are also having cocktails.

Let’s start with broad strokes. Here is the hierarchy of alcohol types, in order of “healthiness” from most to least: Read More

Party Strategy

December 7, 2012
Advice from Experience, Hey, Friend
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OK so the weekend is happening now, and pretty much all month long, since it is December and everyone “would LOVE to see you before the holidays!” so here we go with fitnessing during the tough times.

You don’t want to DECLINE these parties, because then you might slowly fade from all invite lists, and then one day you’re home alone texting 45 people just to “see what’s goin on!” and start to wonder if maybe your phone is broken?

No, we don’t want that to happen. Go to the parties. Have fun. Don’t be that person who “CAN’T HAVE ALCOHOL, I’M ON A DIET HAHA…” Be a normal person, having fun with other normal people at a party.

BUT HOW DO I DO THAT?

You do that by doing a few other things. Read More

Nutritionist #1: Eat More Protein

November 28, 2012
Advice from Experience
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I have seen two nutritionists, both of whom were very helpful, and neither of whom gave me a clear answer on why I don’t have abs yet. But from each of them I got a really great takeaway.  This blog post is about the first.

You probably guessed it because it’s in the title. Eat more protein.  In fact, my specific prescription was to eat 50% more protein than I was at the time.

IS THIS A GOOD THING?

YES. Yep. Yes. First of all, anytime someone (a nutritionist, no less) tells you to eat MORE, this is a major plus. Second, protein rocks. Here are some things that make protein hardcore: Read More

Weight Watchers is awesome.

November 27, 2012
Advice from Experience
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Let me just start this off by saying that Weight Watchers is the shit.  And let me also say that I am no longer on it (which I’ll get to later–CLIFFHANGER!).

Personally, I started Weight Watchers because Jennifer Hudson had just starting being their spokesmodel, and I was like, she seems so fun, I would like to be her friend and look that excited about wearing dresses with a belt, okay fine I’ll shell out $16 for the online version for 3 months, or whatever the deal was. Read More