How Your Circadian Rhythm Can Disrupt Your Diet
What is Your “Circadian Rhythm”? Humans (and all organisms) have an organization to physiological processes that are primarily anchored around two environmental contrasts: the 24-hour cycle of light and darkness. The cycle of light and darkness corresponds to behavioral changes: the light period is also the waking, active, and food foraging phase. The dark period […]
Counting Macros for Beginners: 10 Common Questions Answered
New to counting macros? Get clear answers to the questions beginners ask most about setting macros, weighing food, protein, carbs, exercise, plateaus, and adjustments.
Dealing With Negative Family Members That Don’t Support Your Fat Loss Efforts
“If it was easy, everyone would do it.” One of the most overused, but quite accurate statements about virtually anything significant we pursue. Fat loss is right up there with some of the most personally rewarding but often-difficult tasks to achieve. Especially when first starting out. Even with tools like the IIFYM Macro Calculator on […]
Do Carbs at Night Make You Fat?
This is something that I’ve been meaning to write about for a long time because this is just about the most ignorant dietary myth that’s still around and I hear it over and over again. Don’t eat carbs after ‘X’ o’clock because it will turn into adipose tissue. I mean how many of you have […]
IIFYM Interviews Flexible Dieting Coach; Tyler Mayer
IIFYM Interviews Flexible-Dieting Contest Prep Coach and Diet Doc Clinician Tyler Mayer IIFYM: For our readers that might not be familiar with you, can you please tell us a bit about yourself? TNT: I’m Tyler, a nutrition consultant and strength coach with my company, Team TNT. I’m also an IFPA pro bodybuilder, competitive powerlifter, and […]
Diet Break: Is It Time For You Pause Your Diet Plan?
The mere thought of going on a diet plan is enough to make someone reach for the cookies and hold on for dear life. Fat loss OR ice cream? How about both! When most people think of a diet they think of bland food (thankfully, not you because IIFYM and flexible dieting for the win!), […]
IIFYM.com Interviews Alan Aragon
For those of our readers that might not be familiar with who Alan Aragon is, can you please tell us a little bit about yourself? Your credentials? I’m a part-time researcher, part-time lecturer, part-time writer, and full-time bro. I stay busiest as the founder & executive editor of my research review (AARR). My formal education […]
What do I do if I hit my macros but have left over calories?
I founded IIFYM.com in 2011 specifically to show people a new way of weight loss. Not just a weight loss diet but a fat burning program that is centered around rapid fat loss while eating the foods you love. First with the introduction of our macronutrient calculator and then a few years later when we […]
You Can Eat It… If It Fits Your Macros
First, a quick history of If It Fits Your Macros. For those of you who don’t know already (which is more people than you may think, so you’re not alone if you don’t!) IIFYM is an acronym for “If It Fits Your Macros”. Back in the day, bodybuilders used to eat canned tuna, egg whites, […]