A moment on the lips, a lifetime on the hips right? When you are in the business of swallowing ten pounds of chicken wings or fifteen pints of ice cream or thirty hot dogs and buns, people often are fascinated that the majority of us eaters aren’t waddling into these challenges and being air lifted out on industrial strength slabs of titanium. 

The truth is, the average (and especially ABOVE AVERAGE eater) is usually quite trim.

At quick look at the top 50 eaters (in both sanctioned and non-sanctioned leagues) shows a group of largely slim, or downright SKINNY folks (Molly Schuyler,…

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Work has asked you to go to Orlando for two weeks. You will be in meetings all day and work dinners all night.

Its vacation time with the family. 5 days and 6 nights in the most magical place on earth with your three kids.

Trapped in a hotel and outside of your normal routine of comfort....

Last time you traveled put on 9 pounds that all seemed to wrap right around the SPARE TIRE section of your waist and took 6 months to drop off. 

This begs the questions, can you travel and not go TOTALLY off plan? IS IT POSSIBLE to keep…

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To take or not to take, that is the question?

We all have those friends who INSIST we need to be taking this supplement or that.

Take ZINC! Try AMINOS! You aren’t taking CLA? What’s your dosage of L-Carnitine? What’s your fiber at? You need Glutamine! Buy Fish Oil! EVERYTHING MUST HAVE COCONUT OIL ON IT! So on and so forth.

So you run into GNC or Super Supplements or Vitamin Shoppe or whatever the local spot is to see what all the fuss is about----and immediately you think “Holy hell---where do I even start?”

The salespeople generally aren’t that helpful because let’s be…

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The word “bodybuilder” brings up some unique images for folks. Generally not the positive kind either.

If you are thinking of a male, we tend to immediately think of some muscle bound gorilla who uses steroids, carries a gallon of water, screams while he lifts, sweats like a maniac, has veins popping everywhere, and ultimately is trying to get you to pound protein shakes in the parking lot with him. 

If you are thinking of a woman, usually people just take the above and slap a wig on it along with a bunch of slurs about how “unfeminine” or “ugly” that woman…

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Tell me if you have had this conversation before?

“So I was reading this article/watching this video/listening to this Podcast and it said that the BEST way to get (insert XYZ goal here) is do THIS and ONLY THIS?  The author/speaker/purveyor of truth is very fit/muscular/skinny/famous so it must be true, right?”

Inevitably, I want to shake this person like a British nanny every time they ask me this. 

Pay attention, this is going to rock your world….Are you paying attention?

THESE PEOPLE DON’T KNOW YOU. THEY HAVE NEVER MET YOU. THEY PROBABLY WILL NEVER MEET YOU. AND WHAT THEY ARE TELLING YOU IS…

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