Plant-Based Diet for Athletes

9 High-Energy Plant-Based Snacks for Athletes

By: Matt Frazier

Plant-based. Healthy. Snack. It’s a lot to ask of a food.

But we need them. One of the common questions that I hear from new vegetarians or vegans is “I’m always hungry — how do I stay full with this diet?” — and my answer is to eat more. Not bigger servings, but more often.

Why? Most whole, plant-based foods are not calorically dense. That means they take up a lot of room in your stomach, without packing a lot of calories.

Of course, that also means they digest quickly, so not long after eating one meal, you’re hungry for another.

Enter the snack. (more…)

Why I’ve Started Running Every Day, Especially When I Don’t Feel Like It

By: Matt Frazier

I’m different from a lot of other runners, because running, for its own sake, doesn’t do it for me. And I’ve been criticized for this, for trying to make the best of something that will always feel hard — instead of spending my time doing things that I naturally love, without having to work at […]

The No-Nonsense Guide to Eating Healthy and Vegan Without Going Broke

By: Matt Frazier

First, let me just come out and say it. I wanted really badly to make a sense/cents pun in the title of this post. But I resisted, for your sake. Because sense/cents jokes just might be the worst kind of joke in the world, and nobody should ever write or say them. Next — and […]

Why Everything They Told You About Goals Is Wrong

By: Matt Frazier

We hear a lot of “achievable goals” talk these days. And that talk, I think, is mostly harmful: it creates and encourages a culture of middling, moderation-loving wafflers afraid to lay it all on the line for something that’s worth it. You’ve heard the quote, I’m sure: Dream no small dreams, for they have no […]

The Frictionless Kitchen: 19 Ways to Lessen Your Resistance to Healthy Eating this Year

By: Matt Frazier

As I wrote in my last post, good eating habits aren’t about willpower. Willpower runs out. Instead, if you want your healthy lifestyle to last, the secret is to remove the friction. Friction? The time required to plan, shop for, and prepare your meals. The cost. Or simply that you just don’t like the way […]

How to Put Healthy Eating on Autopilot this Year

By: Matt Frazier

This post is the introduction to a series of six posts (one per week) that I’m doing in partnership with Whole Foods and Garmin to start the year. As compensation, I received Whole Foods gift cards and a Garmin vívofit, both of which I’m using to create the content for this series. (I’ve also got a […]

No Meat Athlete in 2015: What’s In Store

By: Matt Frazier

Happy New Year! You might have noticed that at No Meat Athlete we pretty much ignore most holidays, but New Year’s? Always worth a few posts and a podcast episode or two. I’m fond of calling it my favorite holiday. Partly because nobody calls New Year’s their favorite holiday, but mostly because I really do […]

The Obvious Technique for Getting Faster That Most Runners Are Too Lazy to Complete

By: Doug Hay

A few years ago I wrote post a while back about the power of tracking (anything!). Simple awareness of your behavior, even without a deliberate attempt to change, is often all you need in order to improve. Mind-blowing, really, and super-inspiring, especially at this time of year. Today’s post from Doug Hay (whom you probably know […]

8 Stress-Free Ways to Start Healthier Habits Now

By: Matt Frazier

December is upon us, and while for most of us that means holidays and parties and more stress than is healthy, it’s also one of my favorite times of the year for thinking about change. Why? Because you don’t want to be another victim of the New Year’s syndrome, where on December 31 you realize […]

Can’t Keep Up? 7 Small Steps for Simplifying Your Life

By: Matt Frazier

A few weeks ago I wrote a post about personal development, but our most recent podcast episode about daily rituals reminded me that I left out a critical part. That part? Simplicity. While the rest of the post was really about growing and becoming more, simplicity for me is about making room for this growth, […]