The smallest portions
A once-a-month scoop of ice cream with my daughter, 30 grams and 60 calories, dragged out over six spoons — why food is a tool for memories, and why micro-portions beat exclusion.
Posts tagged nutrition
There is no natural food
The food-world twin of 'there is no natural movement' — humans have manipulated the food supply for millennia, and the natural/organic/ancestral nostalgia does a disservice to how far we've come.
Protein decisions
A practical guide to hitting 70–80 g of protein a day, whatever you eat — from full omnivore to plant-only — using DIAAS and leucine to choose well.
Hunger is ridiculously complex
Hunger isn't willpower — it's hormones and habit. Ghrelin, leptin, the gut's brakes, and why cutting calories makes your body protest a broken pattern rather than a real shortage.
Feeling full is complicated
Satiety and satiation aren't the same thing, and volume, protein, fibre and processing all pull the strings. What to be wary of, and the foods that actually fill you up.
Bean counter
A practical guide to Indian pulses — how much protein and energy each one really delivers, and how to prep and pair them so that protein actually counts.
Process beats personal story
Coaches sell with personal stories, but a testimonial isn't evidence. Why a coach's process — not their transformation yarn — is what tells you whether something will work for you.
Rules and principles
Diets built on rules work by quietly restricting calories, then fall apart the moment you break one. Why principles — conviction in the outcome — outlast them.
You vs society
The hardest part of changing how you eat and train is the people around you. Why your circle may push back, and why your conviction is the only thing that carries you through.
Why the weight won't budge
Fat loss isn't a metabolism mystery. It's a handful of specific, fixable traps — not knowing your intake, over-crediting your activity, missing the hidden calories, and not caring enough to stick.
Micronutrients that matter
No single diet nails every micronutrient. A practical rundown of the four worth minding — calcium, magnesium, zinc and iron — with doses, the absorption rules, and when to just supplement.
How to eat well, minus the nonsense
A practical guide to eating for strength and health — protein, portions, measuring, supplements, and how to ignore the marketing. From the coaches at Movement Inc.
Statistically probable advice for most Indians
A blunt list of what most of us over- and underestimate about our eating, our training, and our health.
Portfolio theory of eating
Manage carbs, fiber, fats, protein, multivitamins and water like you manage your portfolio to get an optimal ROI on what you eat.
Longevity is mostly genetics
You don't train and eat well to reach a ripe old age. You do it to live better once you are there.
World protein day
Celebrate World Protein Day by asking three crucial questions about your protein intake.
Accidental hypertrophy
A transformation interview with a chimp. On figs, termites, throwing faeces for shoulder strength, and ten hours of sleep.
What’s the deal with makhana?
Makhana isn't high-protein, isn't especially low-calorie, and isn't the health food it's sold as. A look past the hype.
What does ghee have to do with it?
"Ghee lubricates your joints" is a vivid folk metaphor and nothing more. What actually keeps joints healthy.
The necessary, unnecessary and counterproductive
You can judge your consumption of food and exercise on three simple parameters: the necessary, the unnecessary and the counterproductive.