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Writing about calories, portions and what a food estimate can and cannot tell you.
How to Count Calories in Homemade Food Without a Label
A component-by-component way to estimate meals with no packaging: home cooking, restaurants and other people's food — including the invisible oil.
Should You Eat Back Your Exercise Calories?
Most calorie targets already include your training, so adding a watch's burn on top can cancel the deficit twice. Here is how to tell which applies to you.
How to Find Your Real Maintenance Calories (Not a Formula's Guess)
Calculators give you a population average. Here's how to work out your own maintenance calories from three weeks of logged intake and a weight trend.
Tracking Calories but Not Losing Weight? Where the Energy Is
You are logging honestly and the scale hasn't moved. Here's where the missing energy usually hides, in order of likelihood, and how to find yours.
How Accurate Does Calorie Counting Actually Need to Be?
You do not need to be exact — you need to be consistent. Which errors cancel out over weeks, which quietly ruin your numbers, and what is worth weighing.
How to Start Logging Again After a Break (and What Gaps Cost)
Skipping the messy days doesn't just break a streak — it biases your record toward the tidy days and quietly inflates every number built from it.