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Actualizaciones en vivo, experimentos y notas de progreso del mundo real.

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.

Cómo reacciona la gente cuando adelgazas. Qué esperar y por qué sus opiniones tienen más que ver con ellos que contigo.

1700 calories disappears faster than you think. But it is a real, sufficient amount of food, and a blown day is recoverable.

The math was never the problem. The math is simple. The hard part is sticking to it, and that part is different for everyone.

Las matemáticas reales detrás del déficit calórico. Cómo calcularlo, por qué los déficits pequeños fallan y qué mueve la báscula.

For most people, weight is a lifelong game. Why accepting that is freeing, and why you should not solve maintenance yet.

Why a new habit snaps back has nothing to do with willpower. A mechanical look at rewiring, and why a finish line helps.

Why one entry beats waiting for the day that feels right.

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...

The trickiest kind of stuck in weight loss is the maintenance limbo after success, and almost nobody warns you about it.
Logging the bad days is worth more than logging the good ones, and tracking pays off even when you're not in a deficit.

If the weight feels too heavy to even start on, you may need to build momentum somewhere with no stakes first.

One person's field notes on confusing thirst for hunger, leaning on zero drinks through long fasts, and what coffee may have been doing.

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.