A few weeks ago I wrote about the connections between stress and body fat. I’d been doing some reading about it last year after finishing my 2010 autumn weight loss stint when I spent 3 months on a very hard fat-cutting diet. Traditionally I have found that I’ve carried a lump of fat just above [...]
Tags:cortisol·Diet·Figure·Stress·weight loss
One of the biggest reasons I gave up my desk job was to reduce the stress in my life. I would like to live as healthy a lifestyle as I can manage and decided that I could arrange my life so that I didn’t need the level of income that came from a five-day-per-week high-hours [...]
Tags:cortisol·Diet·Figure·Psychology·Rest·Stress·weight loss
Happy New Year and welcome back to Not Just a Man’s World! I hope all my reader’s have had a break over the Festive period and are feeling enthused for a fresh start on 2012, just as I am. 2011 was a tough year for me. I knew that I would be giving up my [...]
Tags:Diet·Female·Paleo diet·Powerlifting·Psychology·Shampoo·Training·weight loss
Over time I collect together quite a lot of links in my Google Reader, stored up because I think they would be worth sharing with people who read the blog. Last weekend I thought I’d play a bit of a game, starting with my oldest link and then playing a form of word association with [...]
Tags:Carbohydrate·Diet·Fat·Figure·Intermittent fasting·Sleep
This has been a long time in coming. The main reason for that, apart from the fact that things have been ridiculously busy at home, is that I struggled to know where to start with type 2 diabetes. While my research on type 1 diabetes threw up some very specific points and potential ways of [...]
Tags:Carbohydrate·Diabetes·Diet·Glucose
Some of you may have seen that the Ancestral Health Symposium kicked off a very public debate between Stephan Guyenet and Gary Taubes. They have differing views of the principle cause of obesity. In a very basic nutshell their differing hypothesis are as follows: Stephan supports the hypothesis that obesity is caused by the palatability [...]
Last week I provided an introduction to diabetes mellitus, the group of metabolic diseases characterised by high blood glucose (sugar) levels. The most common forms of this are type 1, type 2 and gestational diabetes and over the next few weeks I am going to look in more detail at types 1 and 2, starting [...]
Tags:Carbohydrate·Diabetes·Diet·Training
There’s a high risk that any of us who live and eat by a westernised lifestyle may get diabetes at some point in our lives and on reading further I’m convinced that, with some basic understanding, we should be able to prevent it from happening. This is therefore the first in a series of three long [...]
I had my first vegetable plot when I was about six or seven. I had been given a vegetable seed kit with lettuce, carrot, radish seeds and a few other bits as a present. My Dad separated off a small section of his enormous vegetable plot where I’d previously pottered about helping (or hindering) him, [...]
For the last two weeks I’ve been ploughing through some technical material on what is going on with the female sex hormones when taking hormone-based contraceptives. Last week I put some consideration into what training and diet might work well with hormone-based contraceptives. So now we put it to the test with some real life [...]
