by Andrew Schaeffer, LMHC, CSCS | Mar 17, 2020 | Nutrition
You’re in a Brooklyn restaurant. You smirk, crack wise about being a hipster, then order the kale salad. Why? Because as cliché as it may be, you also know that kale is good for you. More than that, you secretly like it. It actually tastes like something, as opposed...
by Andrew Schaeffer, LMHC, CSCS | Jan 1, 2020 | Fitness, Nutrition
If you change nothing about your diet but add exercise to your routine, will you lose weight? If you’re up to date on your fitness reading you might lean towards no, since there has been much reporting about the fact that exercise is a poor tool for weight loss. If...
by Andrew Schaeffer, LMHC, CSCS | Dec 19, 2019 | Nutrition
The holidays area a difficult time for healthy eating. As we make our way through them there will be plenty of articles with tips and tricks on navigating the minefield of rich foods and drinks. This is not one of them. It’s Not As Much As You Think Above all, know...
by Andrew Schaeffer, LMHC, CSCS | Nov 26, 2019 | Nutrition
There’s a general equation in popular culture which says that the less body fat you have, the healthier and fitter you are. This is simply not always true. However, because it squares with a cultural desire that bodies be lean in order to be sexy, it has become the...
by Andrew Schaeffer, LMHC, CSCS | Nov 5, 2019 | Nutrition
“Steaks for breakfast, steaks for lunch, steaks for brunch—grass fed, massaged beef, all day long.” Conor McGregor was reveling in his meat eating persona. As the Game Changers tells us, he was hyping up a stereotype about manly men eating meat because he was about to...
by Andrew Schaeffer, LMHC, CSCS | Oct 9, 2019 | Nutrition
When it comes to nutrition, we’re used to moving targets. Eggs are good, then bad, then good again. First fat was the enemy, now it’s sugar. This week’s superfood is kale, next week’s will be blueberries. Yet with all of the uncertainty, red and processed meats was...