Category: Habits and Mindset

Speed is a readout, not a method. Four trials that scanned body composition show what a faster deficit changes, and what regulators found when they asked…

Where you put the tape changes your waist number by inches. A consistent protocol for taking measurements for weight loss, drawn from published clinical procedures, and…

Metabolism does not switch off at 30. The largest measurement study of human energy use found that, once body size and composition are accounted for, daily…

Heat, not laziness. In hot weather your body diverts blood to the skin and spends energy on cooling, so the same walk costs more and feels…

There is no withheld single cause. Here is what actually governs metabolic rate, and why the breakfast and six small meals advice does not hold up.

Across the studies that have measured it, adults gain roughly 0.4 to 0.9 kg between late November and early January. That is far less than the…

Screens at night affect your weight mainly by pushing bedtime later and shortening sleep, not by the blue wavelength itself slowing your metabolism. Short, irregular sleep…

Yes, but far less dramatically than the internet suggests, and mostly through behaviour rather than a broken furnace. Stress measurably lowers the energy you burn after…

Food noise is the running commentary about food that keeps going after you have eaten. It is not weak willpower. Researchers map it onto a measurable…

Motivation is a feeling, and feelings are a poor foundation for something you want to do every week for years. What separates people who keep exercising…

Not by trying harder. Emotional eating is a learned response to a feeling, so what changes it is noticing the feeling before the food, and having…

Sleeping bodies burn fewer calories per hour, not more. What sleep actually governs is how much you eat the next day and what your body gives…