38 Degrees North Blog

More carbs for fat loss? Am I for real?Yes. But with a HUGE caveat…Before we dive into the one time you want to be eating carbs to help control fat gain, let’s rewind slightly and look at the role of carbs for energy.We’re designed to run primarily off carbohydrate energy. Very simply, our bodies release […]

Yes really! Well, it depends… It got your attention and actually, it could be true. Let me break it down. When we’re stressed we release a hormone called cortisol. Cortisol is a get up and go hormone, we fire it in the morning to wake our bodies up, and it fires (along with adrenaline) in

There’s a lot of noise in the world. If we let it social media will amplify it. If we let it, it will amplify until you realise that’s it taking all your time. That you’ve spent hours scrolling through comments. Hours you could have spent improving yourself, helping others, bringing something positive to the world.

Ah the dreaded spare tire… the bane of the dad bod, the wine waist, the midlife spread… The truth is a lot of us are just genetically programmed to store our fat around our waist, primarily on our stomach, after all, from an evolutionary view point, and practically, it’s not a bad place to put

Let me caveat this piece of research by saying that I don’t recommend it, but… There are individuals that have proved you can lose weight with a diet of junk food by doing just that…

 Yep, you read that right. You see if we put ourselves in an overall calorie deficit (consuming less calories than

As you browse the aisles that low fat version of the product may seem like the automatic go to if you’re looking to lose body fat – right? After all, low fat means less fat and you’re trying to lose fat. Makes sense. The thing is, fat in food is NOT necessarily the enemy it’s