Stefan Nilsson on Personal Development

Embrace hunger while you’re on a diet

I want to help you make 2012 the year you started living life on YOUR terms. To make sure we stay in touch, please subscribe to my RSS or download my eBook on sugar addiction for FREE! We have a skewed view on hunger nowadays. In the past – people ate when they became hungry. Nowadays it’s, wrongly, [...]

Don’t ruin your songs

Most of our favorite songs are highly personal due to the memories we associate them with. Songs such as Maybe I’m Amazed and Obsesion are popular but far from everyone would be motivated enough to change their life just by listening to them. The problem is that you might end up ruining your songs. We love to [...]

How before and after transformations really work

I find before and after photos to be extremely inspiring but everyone needs to be aware of the tricks some people are using to fake their transformations simply to convince others into buying their useless products. Because of this, Pete decided to record a video showing you exactly how he transformed himself from a couch potato to [...]

Statistics proving your lifestyle will kill you

We’re all aware that a sedentary lifestyle and unhealthy diet is a major factor in today’s health problems – but how dangerous is it? To give you an estimate I located the 10 most common causes for premature death in 1900 and 2002. The statistics below is republished in Passer & Smiths book Psychology (2009) and originally comes from Murphy [...]

Don’t forget your before and after photos

The single most common regret when it comes to major life changes, besides not beginning earlier, is the before and after photos. I’d love to have more photos from my youth and after a major life change there’s no better motivation than to look back and realize how much you’ve changed. So, just a friendly reminder [...]

Does low intensity exercise burn more fat?

This is a recurring question through my contact form and the simple answer is no, but you might lose weight faster with low intensity exercise. High intensity exercise will burn more calories per minute. It’s a fact that you’ll burn more calories if you run for 10 minutes than if you take a slow walk for 10 minutes. [...]

One bad meal doesn’t devastate your weight loss

Devastated over yesterdays chocolate cake? Haven’t seen the inside of a gym for several weeks? Did you eat unhealthy everyday last week? Once we decide to lose weight and live a healthy life we usually try to change our lives completely. We begin the day by skipping the breakfast to save calories, then we have a sallad [...]

Boost your motivation with a simple one-minute trick

Some days we can’t seem to find any motivation whatsoever. Instead of taking a walk, getting work done or cleaning the house we simply end up in the sofa feeling exhausted. Somehow, we often believe we’ll be able to do it tomorrow because then we’ll have energy. Fortunately – there’s a simple solution. Instead of [...]

Lynyrd Skynyrd – Simple Man

I’ve been obsessed with Supernatural recently, watching six seasons in roughly three weeks, and the soundtrack is simply amazing. One of my favorite songs so far is Simple Man by Lynyrd Skynyrd which mentions important life lessons such as troubles will come and pass, don’t live to fast, follow your heart and be a simple man. I highly recommend [...]

Why buying in bulk is a bad idea

Today we tend to buy more than in ever in bulk, not only food, and we do this with the single purpose of saving as much money as possible. Unfortunately most people tend to forget two important aspects which not only makes it more expensive but also increases the risk of you becoming obese. The [...]

Why living fast and die young is a bad idea

Live fast, die young, and have a good-looking corpse. The following is a famous line said by the actor John Derek in the film Knock On Any Door, which premiered on February 21, 1949. The idea is that you should live in the moment, ignore the risks and then die young. Unfortunately, today a lot of people seem [...]

Calorie counting is just a phase in your weight loss

Studies has shown that counting calories is more effecting than exercise when trying to lose weight. The counter-argument tends to be that one can’t count calories for the rest of their life and I agree with that. It takes time and is boring to track calories every time you’re having a meal. What you need to [...]

How to track and count calories

By now you should know how many calories you need to maintain your weight and how many calories you should consume to lose X kg in Y days. Now it’s time to learn how you actually count calories in your everyday life. The previously explained calorie theory looks like this: Daily calorie goal >= (consumed calories – calories burned) As you [...]

Lose X kg in Y days

Nine times out of ten we are looking to lose weight for an event such as a wedding, school start or vacation. Therefore I’ve created a simple form that will estimate how many calories you can eat each day if you want to succeed with you weight loss at a certain date. Remember that the [...]

Estimate how many daily calories you need

You don’t need to count calories to lose weight, some people succeed by just eating less, but sooner or later almost everyone get the same question: Why can’t I lose weight even though I’m eating healthy? When you’ve come so far the only solution is to find the root of your problem. In other words, [...]

Change beverage and lose weight

If I were to give only one advice to someone trying to lose weight I would ask them to change their beverage. E.g. apple juice contains roughly 45 kcal per 100 ml and a regular glas contain 2 dl. As a result – one single glas of juice contains 90 kcal and most people tend [...]

Which exercise burns the most calories?

I see this question regularly in almost every newspapers nowadays. The authors usually answer the question by listing some of the most demanding exercises but they tend to forget the most important – i.e. the best exercise is the one you actually do. When people decided to lose weight they often commit 100 percent and [...]

How the calorie theory really works

If you’re interested in succeeding with your weight loss it’s incredible important that you understand how energy and calories work. All popular diets are, consciously or unconsciously, trying to reduce your calorie intake even though not all health gurus admit it. As more people have realized how difficult it can be to maintain a low calorie diet, when you [...]

It’s a myth that 95% fail with their weight loss

Regularly I find claims in weight loss books and magazines saying that you shouldn’t beat yourself up for failing with your weight loss since studies has shown that 95% fail with their weight loss. I’m not saying it’s easy to lose weight, trust me, but why mention a worst case scenario when there are absolutely no studies [...]