By Team ICG® Master Trainer Joan Kent As many of you know, cholesterol is absolutely vital to our lives and our health. It’s a waxy, pearl-colored, solid alcohol that’s produced primarily in the liver, but is so important every cell in the body can make its own. Cholesterol has widely varied and important functions. It’s the precursor of all steroids: adrenal hormones, sex hormones, vitamin D and bile acids. It
Sleep, Health and Weight: How Are They Connected?
Early cycling classes. Late nights. Approaching holidays. Fall quarter can be a busy time, and it might be difficult to get enough sleep each night. But it’s important to do so because sleep deprivation affects several factors related to health and weight management. For one thing, sleep deprivation, even short-term, can lower leptin levels. Leptin is a powerful satiety hormone that tells the brain/body it’s had enough food and doesn’t
Beta Blockers Q&A
Q: “I’ve been on a beta-blocker (atenolol) for my high blood pressure. Lately I find that I can’t keep up with the profiles my instructor presents in the Spinning classes I take. When I push to the target energy zones, I feel like I am overexerting myself. I’m exhausted. Can you help me understand how this medication might be affecting my heart rate?” – J.T. Melissa writes: An excellent question
More on proper hand positions while riding.
Paul Swift from BikeFit sent out an infographic showing proper wrist alignment – their example is for a mountain bike, but the concept is identical no matter what you’re riding. If you’ve been to WSSC, BikeFit is the company who provides the very popular bicycle shoe cleat alignment / adjustment service. Complaints about hand numbness are typically the result of riding with hyper-extended wrists. We’ve explored the need for proper hand
How Long Does Quitting Sugar Really Take?
The #1 fear most people have when it comes to sugar addiction is not being able to quit eating sugar. More accurately, they fear how terrible they’ll feel when they stop eating it — and fear that will drive them back where they started. The good news is it doesn’t have to be that way. It took me quite a long time to get to where I am today with
It’s the Biggest Mistake In Sugar Addiction?
My biggest mistake with sugar was actually a series of several mistakes. Are you making them, too? First was my Mindset Mistake: I resisted the idea of having to give up sugar. Yes, I knew I was addicted to it but was sure I wouldn’t have to quit. Second was my Approach Mistake: I started looking for loopholes. Believe me, no one ever looked harder for a sugar loophole than
Can My Client’s 3 Screw-ups Help You?
As most of us have discovered, mistakes can be valuable if we learn from them. Here are a few mistakes a recent client made that may help you. Getting Back On Track vs. Cutting Calories What do you do after a ‘lapse’ in eating one day (or night)? The best thing is to go right back to your healthful eating program — but that’s not always what happens. Recently, I
Can’t Stick With Your Food Plan? Is This Why?
This brief post offers one possible reason you may have difficulty sticking with your food plan. Let’s start here: Do you have food cravings? And are the cravings specifically for sugary foods and other junk? Next: Do you give in to the cravings by eating some of the foods you crave, especially sugar? If the answer is yes, it’s possible that your way of handling the cravings is actually creating
Food: Do You Play the Blame Game?
Does your eating ever go off-track? Do you sometimes eat more than you “should” or foods that you “shouldn’t”? This post poses 3 questions on eating behaviors. Who (Whom!) Do You Blame When Your Eating Goes Off the Mark? I always blamed my mother. She pushed food on me relentlessly, whether I wanted it or not. When I didn’t want it, she told everyone I was a picky eater. But
ICI Podcast 369 – The Haywire Heart – How Too Much Exercise Can Kill You…
Can too much exercise be bad for you? Could the hours spend conditioning as an endurance athlete actually be damaging your heart? Sounds counter intuitive… until you read this new book from author Chris, Managing Editor of VeloNews – The Haywire Heart – How Too Much Exercise Can Kill You and what you can do to protect your heart. Beyond listening to our discussion below, you can get a
Why Is Weight Loss Never “One Thing”?
People often tell me stories about how they lost weight. The stories begin with, “All I did was…” and end with something like: become vegetarian (or vegan); eliminate gluten; “go raw”; or cut out sugar. A couple of these make sense, but others don’t. Let’s look at each one. Becoming Vegetarian or Vegan The two are different, but I’ll cover them together because my observations are the same in both
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