The Science of Slow Fat Loss: Why Fast Dieting Fails, What the Body Really Needs, and How Sustainable Weight Loss Actually Works

Every January, millions of us pledge allegiance to a new diet. It usually starts with a burst of enthusiasm and a trolley full of vegetables you do not even like. You promise yourself that you will eat clean, drink water, embrace quinoa and become the type of person who naturally wakes up before sunrise because you have evolved.

And for a few days, it is almost believable. The scale drops a little. You feel lighter. You feel virtuous. You feel like a better version of yourself. You convince yourself that this time you have cracked it.

Then the familiar shift arrives. Hunger begins to stalk you around the house. You become irrationally annoyed at people chewing near you. You start performing mental gymnastics around food choices. A single biscuit looks at you in a way that feels personal. Soon the diet is in pieces, your mood is strange, and you are convinced you simply lack discipline.

But here is the truth. There is nothing wrong with you. The problem is the approach.