The Cut blog

Writing about fat loss without the guesswork

Cut is built on a few opinions: that daily scale weight is mostly noise, that your maintenance calories should be measured rather than guessed, and that an app has no business making you feel bad about a biscuit. These posts explain the reasoning, and are useful whether or not you ever install anything.

• Why the scale lies most days 17 August 2026

  Daily weight swings a kilo or more on water, salt, sleep and yesterday's dinner. What is actually moving, and how to read a trend instead of a number.

• How to measure your maintenance calories 17 August 2026

  TDEE calculators hand you a population average wearing your name. You can measure the real figure from what you logged and what the scale did.

• Why weight loss stalls 17 August 2026

  A stall is rarely a broken metabolism. The four things that actually cause one, in the order they are likely, and what to do about each.

• How much protein when you are cutting 17 August 2026

  Protein is the one macro worth being deliberate about in a deficit. Roughly how much, why it protects muscle and appetite, and how to hit it.