How to Build a Balanced Plate
A simple plate-ratio method for balanced meals when you're not following a weighed recipe: half vegetables, a quarter protein, a quarter carbs.
Mindset
Articles about mindset from Love. Eat. Keep Fit.: practical reads on food, calories and cooking.
One Meal, Wildly Different Calories
Why the exact same dish can range from 450 to 950 calories, where those calories actually hide, and how to cook one base meal for a household with different targets.
Finding (and Adapting) Recipes That Actually Work
A simple trick for finding better, simpler recipes online, plus a repeatable way to adapt anything you find to your own calorie target.
Hunger vs Appetite
The physical need to eat and the learned desire to eat feel identical but are not the same thing. A simple test and a hunger scale to tell them apart.
Food Tracking: Why It Helps (When You Need It)
An honest look at what the research says about self-monitoring, and why this app is built to work without it, plus when a short, defined spell of tracking is genuinely worth trying.
How to Stay in a Deficit Without Tracking
Four practical tools, planning ahead, the plate method, protein-anchoring, and the hunger scale, that replace daily calorie logging.
Atomic Habits for Food and Cooking
Four practical techniques from Atomic Habits, habit stacking, the two-minute rule, environment design, and identity-based habits, applied directly to eating and cooking.
Weekend Eating: On Track Without Being Rigid
Why weekends undo more progress than any single weekday meal, and how to bring the plate method, protein-anchoring and the hunger scale with you instead of switching them off.
Calorie Deficit: The Mechanics
The real maths behind fat loss, why bigger deficits backfire, why progress gets harder the leaner you get, and how a planned diet break can help on a longer cut.
Supplements: What the Evidence Actually Supports
An evidence-balanced look at which supplements have real research behind them, creatine and protein powder among them, and which popular fat-loss products do not hold up.