Nutrition

My Ideal Eating Schedule

by Chris Lopez April 9, 2012

After practicing Intermittent Fasting for the past 5 years and experiencing amazing results, I’ve found some interesting things about how my body reacts to food and specifically to feedings throughout the day. It is very true that weight loss is a calories in vs. calories out equation, but if you want to go beyond that [...]

23 Ways To Improve Your Health Without Breaking The Bank

by Chris Lopez December 5, 2011

I have some affinity to the number 23. Maybe it’s because I was a huge Michael Jordan fan growing up. So when I write lists like the one below or the 23 Random Things About Me post, that’s the defence I use. It could be that my simple mind can only think of 23 things. [...]

What I Eat Everyday – Part 2: Carb Cycling, Fasting & Why I Can Eat Whatever I Want

by Chris Lopez August 2, 2011

In Part 1, I summed up what my Food Rules are and my eating “schedule” (if you even want to call it that). Today, I want to talk about the diet that I use to be able to stay lean year round. Intermittent Fasting Before 2007, I was obsessed (as were a lot people who [...]

What I Eat (Almost) Everyday: Part 1, My Food Rules

by Chris Lopez July 19, 2011

Over the past few days, I’ve gotten quite a few questions on My Facebook Page about what I eat and the “diet” that I follow. I always boast to friends that I can eat whatever I want whenever I want. The only issue with that statement is that “whatever” I want to eat isn’t necessarily [...]

Perfect Post-Workout Nutrition

by Chris Lopez January 22, 2010

I hate protein shakes. When I was young and was caught up in the whole “supplement thing”, thinking that if I didn’t consume 1g of protein per pound of bodyweight that I was going to shrivel up and turn into a skinny, non-muscular piece of nothing, I drank protein shakes until the cows came home. [...]