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How to break a weight loss plateau, without crashing your diet
Why weight loss stalls after 4 to 8 weeks, what is actually happening to your metabolism, and the five fixes that work without dropping calories again.
April 29, 20269 min
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All weight loss writing from the Calow Journal, sorted newest first. Practical, source-backed, and free from crash-diet drama.
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How many calories should I eat to lose weight? The honest calculator
The real calorie target for fat loss by body weight, age, sex, and activity. Worked examples, the floor you should never go under, and why the number on most calculators is too low.
April 25, 202611 min
Weight loss
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Maintenance calories: how to stop dieting without gaining it back
The phase every diet skips. How to transition out of a calorie deficit, find your new maintenance number, and keep the weight off for longer than six weeks.
April 22, 20267 min
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Why am I not losing weight in a calorie deficit? 8 honest reasons
The scale isn't lying; your deficit probably is. Under-counting, water weight, metabolic adaptation, and six more reasons the math looks right and the results don't.
April 22, 20267 min
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Calorie deficit: how to calculate one that actually works
The real math behind losing one pound a week: TDEE, the 500-kcal rule, why 1,200 is a trap, and how to pick a deficit you'll still be in three months from now.
April 22, 20266 min
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