Weight & Metabolism
Safe Weight Loss Rate: How Many Kg a Week Is Normal
What rate of weight loss counts as safe, why faster is not better, how to preserve muscle while losing fat, and when a slowdown on the scale is normal.
3 min read
#calorie deficit
4 articles
Weight & Metabolism
Weight Loss Plateau: Why the Scale Stops and What to Do
Why weight loss stalls: water retention, metabolic adaptation, falling NEAT and portion creep. Real numbers on adaptation, plus a fix-it order that works.
13 min read
Weight & Metabolism
Calorie Deficit: How to Calculate It and Stick to It
How to work out your maintenance calories, what size of deficit is safe, why tracked deficits often fail to move the scale, and the habits that hold.
10 min read
Weight & Metabolism
Intermittent Fasting: Better Than a Plain Deficit?
What randomised trials actually show about 16:8, 5:2 and alternate-day fasting, the muscle-loss problem, the truth about autophagy, and who should avoid it.
13 min read