Fat Loss

Fat loss is probably the most talked-about topic in fitness, and also the most misunderstood. Walk into any gym in Glasgow and you'll hear people talking about cutting carbs, doing fasted cardio, taking fat burners, or following whatever diet their mate lost a stone on last month. Most of it's nonsense. Some of it's actively counterproductive. All of it misses the point.

The point is this: fat loss happens when you consistently consume fewer calories than you burn. That's it. Everything else — the meal timing, the food choices, the training split — is secondary to that one principle. The reason people struggle isn't because they don't know this. It's because knowing it and actually doing it, week after week, in a real life with work and family and social occasions and stress, are completely different things.

That's what the posts in this category are about. Not the theory — you can get that anywhere. The practical side. How do you stay in a deficit over the weekend when you're out with your mates? How do you track calories without turning every meal into a maths exam? How do you keep losing fat without losing the muscle you've worked hard to build?

I've been a personal trainer in Glasgow's East End for six years. I've worked with hundreds of people who've tried everything and got nowhere, and then figured out the basics and transformed their bodies. The answers are almost always simpler than people expect. They're just not easy. There's a difference.

Read through these posts. Apply what makes sense. And if you want to talk through your specific situation, book a free call.