BY: FITZ-GEORGE RATTRAY One of the InteKai Wave Diet’s mantras is Plan – Prepare – Portion – Package – Partake, among our other systems for success, these essentials are scientifically proven and supported cornerstones of dietary management and is all structured upon Planning. WHY PLAN? Nutritionists, Psychologists, researchers and fitness experts everywhere agree on the…
BY: FITZ-GEORGE RATTRAY You just started your health and fitness journey, you are locked in on making the changes you know you need for a fuller, healthier, pain free life. You have decided to push your old fun but damaging habits away, have even found a solid weight loss diet system with an available support…
BY: FITZ-GEORGE RATTRAY A restful night is one of the most important things for your health. Developing and maintaining a night time routine is priceless, including one which gets you back to bed if you wake up in the wee hours of the morning. Put your phone on night mode, set it to comfort…
BY: FITZ-GEORGE RATTRAY I recently wrote an article on the relationship between stress and weight gain. The response was significant. Although this conversation has been ongoing for decades it is increasingly clear that more people are beginning to recognize the impact of their mental states and their physical well-being. There is a list of particularly…
BY: FITZ-GEORGE RATTRAY While sitting in a parking lot I watched people walking back and forth, various ages, sizes and genders and the one thing in common was the indications of present or future aches and pains, and eventually crippling back and leg problems requiring anything from a walking stick, to a walker to a…
BY: FITZ-GEORGE RATTRAY Quit dieting, but never quit lifestyle change Let’s just hit the ground running with this. I have failed at dieting all my life, I was not even a successful bad dieter. Many people have been “successful” with diets but repeatedly have put the weight back on. I actually envied those individuals, at…
BY: FITZ-GEORGE RATTRAY If you are thinking about weight loss, managing depression, heart health, managing of diabetes and so much more, it is incredibly important that you understand the relationship with your gut bacteria/microbiome/flora, and your health, weight and mood. We have been introduced to bacteria as bad things, but that is not even half…
BY: FITZ-GEORGE RATTRAY I have been asked what the InteKai Diet is (ITK Wave) and how it works. Starting off, as diets are conventionally understood ITK is not a diet. It is a system of eating designed meals at different stages to create various changes. The ITK Wave sees members losing as much as 4…
BY: FITZ-GEORGE RATTRAY “I have been going to the gym and I’m still not losing weight” or “ I had a little extra to eat so I went to the gym last night but I still gained weight”. There are possibly hundreds of variations of these statements which I have heard hundreds of times, yet…
BY: FITZ-GEORGE RATTRAY Metabolism is commonly equated with simply burning energy. Metabolism is the collection of processes which sustain life in living organisms, whether catabolic (breaking down) or anabolic (building up). To be clear let us focus on what we are primarily interested in, our basal metabolic rate (BMR). This is the number of calories…