Pretty much everything I have to say about diet
Diet is not something I talk about often. Firstly and most importantly because I am not qualified to give definitive, specific diet advice (no personal trainer is unless they also happen to be a HCPC registered dietitian, irrespective of how many certificates they have paid for). And secondly because the entire topic bores me to […]
Jess’ dietary woes
Talking to Jess the other day got me to thinking about how glad I am that I never got suckered into the whole “dieting” thing. She, like me, was once Very Fat. In the dark years B.P. (Before Phil), poor girl tried everything normies try to fix it, putting in a metric tonne of effort, […]
Unattractive yet surprisingly effective approach to solving “food problems”
It is no secret that I am not a fan of diet talk. This non-interest even extends to my work with clients, who are all well aware that I won’t be offering them any assistance on the diet front whatsoever, beyond reminding them to eat sensible amounts of what they already know they should eat, […]
Shamelessly biased take on sports supplements
Here is something that confuses me greatly: The way many people spend well over one hundred and, in extreme cases, several hundred pounds per month on sports supplements despite getting nothing more than a moderate gastrointestinal upset in return. To be clear, I am not “against” sports or other nutritional supplements. Principally because I am […]
Fitness rule I have broken for fifteen years
“Diet is more important than exercise” Is one fitness rule I have consistently ignored for going on fifteen years. I am not for a moment suggesting this is rule is wrong, all I am saying is that I have paid very little attention to my diet beyond the following: * Eat the things I know […]
Unconventional yet demonstratively effective approach to diet
Every now and again I get asked: “What do you think about X food/ Y diet” To which my response can always be boiled down to: “Don’t know, don’t care” Why? Principally because I’m not qualified to have an opinion. Nutrition was covered on my personal training course, but the material was superficial (and that […]
Bonkers diet almost causes blindness
Behold probably the stupidest thing Yours Baldly has ever done: About six months before I was due to marry Jess, I decreed that I would get Very Lean for the occasion. So far, so standard. But what is not standard was the specific method I chose to strip the fat from my frame. It was […]
“Healthy eating is expensive” destroyed with facts
“Let’s not forget that some peole can’t afford to eat as well as others, and.poor diet contributes to the issue. As does the availability of sugar-dosed food in school, et cetera. That makes things more complicated than they might appear i.e. it’s not just an individual issue, it is a societal.issue” Opined a gent on […]
Dieting isn’t hard
You have doubtless heard the cliché, “Abs are made in the kitchen, not in the gym”. Like all clichés, it is largely true in most cases – albeit lacking in nuance causing the sheeple who follow it blindly to fall off a cliff into a pit of misery and despair. In this instance, that is […]
Nutritionist exploits cancer patients with predictable results
Came a comment from a man who got upset because I said being strong and in shape makes you a better father: === I’d expect a personal trainer would know how related diet and exercises are – can you really be fit if you exercise but have a poor diet? === I suspect this was […]