Weight Loss

On August 3, I started a month of eating 1,400 calories a day, and I opened my food app nine or ten times a day. I even weighed peanut butter. Part of me wanted one tidy number that felt certain, the way the 3,500-calorie math felt when I first learned it. Years of bloating, thyroid […]

How much of a calorie deficit to lose weight is the first number most of us want, and 1,000 a day is the one that sounds most decisive. For years I assumed a bigger cut simply meant I was taking things more seriously. My weight frustrated me long enough that slow progress felt like failure. […]

You cut back, you log your meals, and after a few weeks the scale still shows the same number. Why am I not losing weight in a calorie deficit? My own weight was a long-running frustration, so I know how quickly that question turns into a hunt for some hidden cause. More than once I […]

For years, I treated slow weight loss as a safety rule. If the scale dropped quickly, I assumed the pounds would come rushing back, because that was the warning I kept reading every time I tried to change how I ate. A randomized trial from Norway tested that belief directly, and the answer surprised me. […]

Monday afternoons were the hardest part. On my first fast day in September, I stood in my kitchen at 3:40 p.m., almost four hours into a 20-hour fast, reading a soup label I had no plan to eat. By the end of the month, those afternoons felt routine. An Australian trial published in 2026 found […]

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 […]