Performance & Lifestyle

Eat Your Stress Goodbye - Stress Reducing Diet When you’re stressed out, the foods that you’re turning to are most likely going to be traditional ‘comfort’ foods – think big meals, tapaus , fast fatty foods, sweet foods, and "unhealthy drinks". Let’s face it – we’ve all found some comfort in a tasty meal and your favourite drink (usually sweet and savoury or alcoholic) when we’ve been stressed out or upset about something. There's nothing truly wrong about that but know that, this isn’t a good permanent solution. When you’re turning to unhealthy foods you can feel better temporarily, but in [...]

Flexible Dieting Like A Pro With These 5 Tips!!   What if you can eat whatever you want, whenever you want? Sounds like a recipe for disaster, isn’t it? If so, why bother dieting you ask? If the word “diet” sends shivers down your spine; it’s normal and we understand. Most “diets” feel like a punishment. Most diet/ fitness “gurus” promote fear-mongering and severe food restrictions, instead of actually teaching nutrition, energy balance, exercise, and how human physiology/metabolism really works. Gluten, sugar, high-glycemic carb, processed food, nasi lemak, char kuey teow… just kiss goodbye to everything you like eating, they say. [...]

One of the most important things to accomplish when wanting to lose weight is to be in a caloric deficit. But have you ever wondered why when you seem to eat so little, it still seems almost impossible to achieve even a tiny bit of weight loss? One of the possibility of this happening is because of something called CALORIC DENSITY which means that different food will have different density. To put simply, density is the amount of mass over volume which means that for a food which has an equal amount of weight, the more space that food takes, the [...]

Calories Our bodies need energy to keep us alive and our organs functioning normally. When we eat and drink, we put energy into our bodies. Caloric Maintenance To maintain a stable weight, the energy we put into our bodies must be the same as the energy we use by normal bodily functions and physical activity. An important part of a healthy diet is balancing the energy you put into your bodies with the energy you use. Caloric Surplus A calorie surplus is a state in which you consume more calories than you burn leads to weight gain in [...]