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Live updates, experiments, and real-world progress notes.
Twenty-one days into a 90-day challenge, doing many things right, and the pace is still too weak. This is the maintenance trap: clean food, honest tracking, and a deficit too small for the goal.
There is a phase before you start losing weight, where the idea moves from the back of your mind to the front of your life. Here are its six stages, and how to tell where you stand.
A 15-step scale for tracking weight loss by how your pants fit, from stuck at the ankles to falling straight to the floor.
How other people react when you lose weight. What to expect and why their opinions are about them, not you.
The math was never the problem. The math is simple. The hard part is sticking to it, and that part is different for everyone.
1700 calories disappears faster than you think. But it is a real, sufficient amount of food, and a blown day is recoverable.
The real math behind calorie deficits. How to calculate yours, why small deficits fail, and what moves the scale.
Why a new habit snaps back has nothing to do with willpower. A mechanical look at rewiring, and why a finish line helps.
For most people, weight is a lifelong game. Why accepting that is freeing, and why you should not solve maintenance yet.
Why one entry beats waiting for the day that feels right.
Years ago I saw a video of 50 Cent giving a tour of his house. He opened his fridge, and it contained nothing but bottled water. Nothing else. He said that th...
One person's field notes on confusing thirst for hunger, leaning on zero drinks through long fasts, and what coffee may have been doing.
If the weight feels too heavy to even start on, you may need to build momentum somewhere with no stakes first.
Logging the bad days is worth more than logging the good ones, and tracking pays off even when you're not in a deficit.
The trickiest kind of stuck in weight loss is the maintenance limbo after success, and almost nobody warns you about it.
I lost about thirty kilos, then let some of it come back on purpose. Here's what that taught me about the phase nobody names.
