2020 has been a difficult year, but it is also the year that I discovered James Clear's book, Atomic Habits, one of the most transformative books of my entire life.  Importantly, you will learn about the problem with goals, or resolutions as we call them at the...

Some of you may be thinking that I’ve been a little too exuberant on fasting.   What if it turns out not to be true?   To answer that question, I am going to explore the nature of beliefs, how we determines things to be true, and best antidote to excessive confidence...

One of the biggest obstacles to fasting is not the science, the health benefits, or the weight loss. It's the word “fasting.” It just makes people freak out.  You say “fasting” and people hear “fad,” or “starvation” or “hunger” or "pain" or “eating disorder” or...

One of the most inane critiques of fasting is that you will be constantly hangry, emotionally groggy, and withdraw from all social activity as you sit isolated in your corner munching on your rice cakes while longing for food like Oliver Twist.  For example, in an...

  One of the perils of sharing any diet journey or any personal experience for that matter... If it worked for me, will it work for you? We all share a lot in common as humans, but evolution has made us variable too. Penicillin saves lives, but can also take it...

If you have been reading my blog posts, you know that I am now pretty much Keto (“ish”) and generally embrace the high natural fats/low carb ethos embraced by writers like Gary Taubes or Chris Kresser.  The Diet Wars are actually kind of entertaining.  Just watch the...

One of the most surprising and unexpected aspects of my food journey is that I am now keto (“ish”).   When I started intermittent fasting, I had no intention whatsoever of changing what I ate, just the timing of what I ate.  I still had pizza on Friday nights, drank...

  In my tubby dad bod days, I remember looking at the diet fads as an observer like I was walking through the state fair with various diet carnival barkers trying to get me to enter their diet tent.  Meat sucks!  Carbs Good!  No Carbs Suck!  Tradition good! ...

I am now firmly part of the keto/intermittent fasting/low carb/anti-sugar tribes (significant overlap between all), but that membership was entirely accidental.  If you would have asked me one year ago today which tribe I was in, I would have replied that it is all...

We watched an awesome movie called The Man Who Invented Christmas, about Charles Dickens’ creation of the Christmas Carol. We all know about Dickens and Christmas Carol, but that title really struck me.  The man who “invented” Christmas?   Um what?  Dickens invented...