One approach to long term fat loss and improved body composition is alternate periods of fat loss eating and training with periods of maintainance (or muscle gain) eating and training. One of the benefits of this approach is that your body doesn’t get used to the eating and training routines in either period and responds accordingly.

Tip #9
Mood Eating
by Dr. John Berardi

Most people eat based on their mood and/or some subjective feelings of hunger. They don’t eat based on what their bodies need. Think of it this way: you’re about to take a long drive on a stretch of highway with no gas station. Do you fail to stop for gas before you hit the road because you’re ‘not in the mood?’ Of course not. Think of eating in the same way. Eating fuels your metabolic engine. So it’s time to start feeling like eating so that you can stop feeling like you’re scrawny.

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“You can’t out-train a bad diet”

I heard this great quote a while ago. I don”t know who first said it but the quote itself is worth remembering.

It basically means that no matter how hard you are training, it is very difficult to accomplish your body goals if you are eating poorly. As always there are exceptions to this but it is a good guide to go by.