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Your Journey
The Maintenance Trap: When a Good Routine Still Misses the Target
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.
The Warm-Up Phase: How You Get Yourself Ready to Start
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.
The 15-Step "Pants Proximity" Scale
A 15-step scale for tracking weight loss by how your pants fit, from stuck at the ankles to falling straight to the floor.
Los demás durante tu pérdida de peso
Cómo reacciona la gente cuando adelgazas. Qué esperar y por qué sus opiniones tienen más que ver con ellos que contigo.
The Method
It's Calories In, Calories Out. And That's Not the Insult You Think It Is.
The math was never the problem. The math is simple. The hard part is sticking to it, and that part is different for everyone.
You're Not Going to Starve: The 1700 Calorie Reality Check
1700 calories disappears faster than you think. But it is a real, sufficient amount of food, and a blown day is recoverable.
Cómo funciona realmente el déficit calórico
Las matemáticas reales detrás del déficit calórico. Cómo calcularlo, por qué los déficits pequeños fallan y qué mueve la báscula.
The Psychology
Stop Waiting to Have It All Figured Out: The Lifelong Game
For most people, weight is a lifelong game. Why accepting that is freeing, and why you should not solve maintenance yet.
Why Your Habits Always Come Back: The Rewiring Problem
Why a new habit snaps back has nothing to do with willpower. A mechanical look at rewiring, and why a finish line helps.
The first log is not a vow
Why one entry beats waiting for the day that feels right.
Cómo Controlarte — Hablemos en Serio Sobre Perder el Control con la Comida
Hace años vi un video de 50 Cent dando un recorrido por su casa. Abrió su nevera y solo había botellas de agua. Nada más. Dijo que eso...
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What I learned to check before I assume it's hunger
One person's field notes on confusing thirst for hunger, leaning on zero drinks through long fasts, and what coffee may have been doing.
Tracking is a truth engine, even when the truth is uncomfortable
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 stuck that doesn't look like failure
The trickiest kind of stuck in weight loss is the maintenance limbo after success, and almost nobody warns you about it.
The first move in weight loss isn't about food
If the weight feels too heavy to even start on, you may need to build momentum somewhere with no stakes first.
The warm-up phase: what I learned by deliberately regaining weight
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.