pimg class=”alignright” title=”Weight Loss Wrench” src=”http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg158/MDA2008/MDA%202011/weightlosswrench.jpg” alt=”weightlosswrench” width=”319″ height=”239″ /Whenever friends, co-workers, or loved ones complain about not being able to lose weight and turn to us for answers or advice, we can all generally rattle off a few suggestions that, if followed, usually set them on the right track. For the soda-swilling cubicle mate who keeps a recycling bin just for cans beneath his desk who asks, #8221;Why can#8217;t I lose weight?,#8221; you suggest stopping soda. For the fast food addict who wonders why she can#8217;t hit her high school weight, you suggest avoiding fries, getting water, and ditching the buns. To the vegetarian best friend who eats #8220;healthy#8221; but is growing increasingly skinny-fat, you send a link to MDA. Those are simple solutions. What about emyour/em stalled weight loss? You#8217;re Primal, you#8217;ve lost a bunch of weight already, you#8217;re feeling good, you don#8217;t have many complaints, you know all […]

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As a follow up to my last post, here is my guide explaining if you should be bulking overeating eating more or dieting… AKA how to make the BMI kind of useful.
***Truth be told, I dislike the word ‘bulking’ and even ‘overeating’.  The real question should be: ‘are you eating enough to build muscle’, but for the sake sanity I’m going to use bulking and overeating in this post…but you know what I mean***
Not everyone should bulk, I hope I made that perfectly clear in my last blog post.
However, I hope the fact that some people can eat more  was equally clear.
So how do you tell if you should be eating more or dieting (or somewhere in between)?
Simple, you borrow a whole heap of info from the Adonis Index.
Firstly, lets look at your Lean Body Mass – The amount of lean mass you can carry (and thus muscle mass […]

Original post by Brad Pilon

 
As a follow up to my last post, here is my guide to how to tell if you should be bulking or dieting… AKA how to make the BMI kind of useful.
Not everyone should bulk, I hope I made that perfectly clear in my last blog post.
However, I hope the fact that some people can bulk was equally clear.
So how do you tell if you should be bulking or dieting (or somewhere in between)?
Simple, you borrow a whole heap of info from the Adonis Index.
Firstly, lets be clear on your Lean Body Mass – It is really height dependent.
This is the Adonis Equation:
11 x H3.2

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pimg class=”alignright” title=”Spirulina Powder” src=”http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg158/MDA2008/MDA%202011/spirulina.jpg” alt=”spirulina” width=”320″ height=”212″ /There are many thousands of foods out there at our beck and all, and you want to know which ones are Primal-approved and which ones are not. I know this because I get a lot of emails from you guys asking me about this food or that food. I#8217;m happy to give my perspective, but I also want to iterate (or reiterate, in case I#8217;ve already said this) that eating or not eating any of the aforementioned and heretofore-mentioned foods will neither ratify nor revoke your Primal Cred card. Heck, such a card doesn#8217;t even really exist! These are just my opinions based on the evidence available to me./p
pWithout further ado, let#8217;s dig in to the foods in question. We#8217;ve got spirulina, chlorella, amaranth, Mycryo, and freeze-dried produce on the docket for today./p
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I’ll be honest: dirt cake has never really been my thing. Most versions involve pudding filled with fake flavoring, gobs of non-dairy whipped topping and Day-Glo gummy worms — a dream come true for kids or a big crowd of drunk dudes (more on that later), but I need a little more. Like two layers of homemade pudding, one lightly salted peanut butter, the other dark chocolate, that together taste like the grown up version of a Reese’s peanut butter cup, sandwiched between two layers of crumbled cookie.

And because it’s Halloween, and this is still a dirt cake, it’s topped with a fun mini graveyard, made with Nutter Butter cookies and whipped cream ghosts.

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It comes but once a year. Oh, yes — once a year you’re allowed to delve into the dark, twisted part of your mind and come up with something that’ll scare the bejeesus out of people. As mentioned, I’d rather stick with friendly ghosts, but I’m not one to keep anyone else away from the creep! Here are 10 spooky (albeit, pretty clever!) food ideas for your Halloween party.

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pimg class=”alignright” title=”Pregnant” src=”http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg158/MDA2008/MDA%202011/pregnant2.jpg” alt=”pregnant2″ width=”320″ height=”212″ /Being pregnant is tough #8211; or so I hear. You#8217;re tasked with creating a child, with actually building an entire human being bit by bit from scratch. You have to carry that child, even as it grows to seven, eight, or even nine pounds or more inside your body. And all the while, your body seems to be rebelling against #8220;what is best.#8221; You want to eat the best food and get the right exercise and do all the right things, but what happens when your body fights you? What are you supposed to do when all you can stomach are mac and cheese and tortilla chips? For the first section, I try to help a woman in her first trimester with these issues. Next, I discuss the question of retinol overload from dietary liver, along with whether or not we need […]

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