Eating fat to burn fat may sound crazy, but ketogenic dieting has many researched benefits. Learn how this popular diet may impact your body composition, performance, and fitness goals! Catherine Saenz, CSCS March 08, 2018 •  8 min read Eating fat to burn fat sounds contradictory, if not nuts, right? The world is full of people who are fat because of high-fat diets, so why would a fit person want to follow suit? I'm not talking about stuffing your face full of peanut butter cups. I'm talking about following a ketogenic diet—or, put simply, a high-fat, moderate-protein, carbohydrate-restricted diet designed to make the body...

Has your fat loss stalled? Burn more calories and lose more weight by trying one of these 10 techniques! Shannon Clark June 27, 2017 I'm sure everyone has that one friend who is so genetically blessed that he can blink an eye and magically drop to sub-10-percent body fat. Everyone else has to dial in their diet and tweak their training. Sometimes, despite your best efforts, fat doesn't evacuate from your body as quickly as you'd like. The first instinct might be to dramatically increase calorie deficit and caloric expenditure, but that can bring about detrimental long-term effects on your body. Instead,...

The idea of the ketone diet is to get your body into a process called Ketosis where you stop burning carbohydrates as fuel... Learn more about how it works, variations, etc. Shannon Clark October 18, 2018 •  5 min read Along with the Atkins diet and the South Beach diet, individuals who are interested in low carbohydrate approaches to dieting will likely want to look into the Keto Diet. Popular among many who are trying to maintain blood sugar levels and lose body fat, the main premise of this diet is, 'eat fat to lose fat'. So How Does It Work? The idea...

Dieting is no fun and rarely brings lasting results. There must be a better way! Emerging companies think that hyper-personalized meal plans might just be the key to good health. Not everyone responds to foods the same way. Some people get jittery after drinking one cup of coffee; others can drink an entire pot right before bed. Some people are sensitive to gluten, while others can tear through an entire pizza buffet without a problem. As similar as humans are, we all have tiny genetic differences that can affect our digestion, absorption, and metabolism of individual nutrients. If you and...

Now that we're well into the new year, it's time to check in and see how your resolutions are coming along. Are you mowing down your fitness and nutrition goals like a boss? Or are you disappointed because you're not seeing results? Either way, chances are you've been wrestling with the one overwhelming component many of us struggle with this time of year: dieting! The word itself begets eye rolls and crossed arms in today's macro-savvy culture. Someone's "diet" really just refers to the type of foods he or she eats, but that's not how we use this word today....