If you’re eating fewer calories than you burn, building muscle sounds impossible. I used to see it that way too: cut to lose fat, eat more to gain muscle, pick one goal at a time. The more I read, the less tidy that became. You can build muscle in a calorie deficit, especially if you’re […]
Once, I thought that carrying extra weight must mean your metabolism was somehow doing less work. It sounded logical at the time. If someone gains weight easily or struggles to lose it, surely they must be burning fewer calories than a smaller person, right? That is not usually how it works. A larger body generally […]
I noticed it in the freezer aisle first. A frozen meal I sometimes grab on busy nights had a little badge on the front calling it GLP-1 friendly, and I stood there longer than I’d like to admit, trying to work out what that meant. Now the cracker brand I grew up with is launching […]
I remember the first time I came across the “Twinkie diet” story and thinking there had to be a catch. A nutrition professor ate snack cakes, chips and sugary cereal for weeks, lost weight, and somehow ended up with better cholesterol numbers. It sounds like the kind of story made for an argument about whether […]