Calorie deficit guides
Losing fat comes down to eating less than you use, steadily and for long enough. These posts cover how to size that gap and how to read the results.
Maintenance Calories: How to Find Yours From Your Own LogFour weeks of food logs and a weight trend give a real maintenance number: the formula, a worked example and the window to use.CalorTracker Team · 9 min read
Peanut Butter Calories: Why It Is the Most Under-Logged Food (and How to Fix It)A level tablespoon of peanut butter is about 96 calories; a big spoon can be three times that. The arithmetic and how to log it.CalorTracker Team · 7 min read
Rice Calories: Cooked vs Uncooked, and the Logging Mistake That Costs Hundreds of CaloriesDry rice has 365 calories per 100 g and cooked rice has 130. Why both are right, how to convert, and how to weigh rice so your log is not out.CalorTracker Team · 8 min read
How Many Calories Should I Eat to Lose Weight?The three-step calculation, worked out with real numbers for a woman and a man, plus the floor you should not go under and what to do when the losses stop.CalorTracker Team · 9 min read
Weight Tracking That Tells You Whether Your Plan Is WorkingA trend line instead of a daily number, your measured pace against your planned pace, and an honest projected date for reaching your goal weight.CalorTracker Team · 7 min read
Overcoming Diet Plateaus: The Hidden Macros You're MissingHit a wall in your weight loss journey? Discover the sneaky hidden macros and calorie leaks that are sabotaging your progress.CalorTracker Team · 8 min read
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