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, with the arithmetic shown rather than asserted, and they are useful whether or not you ever install anything.
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TDEE calculators are all wrong about you
Five calculators, five numbers, none of them yours. What the formulas actually compute, worked through on one real person where a single rung of the activity dropdown moves the answer by 300 calories a day, and the measurement that replaces the whole exercise.
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Why the scale lies most days
Daily weight swings a kilo or more on water, salt, sleep and yesterday’s dinner, while real fat loss arrives at about 90 grams a day. What each part is actually made of, and how a smoothed trend separates the two.
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How to measure your maintenance calories
TDEE calculators hand you a population average wearing your name. Two weeks of logging and a smoothed weight trend give you the real figure instead, along with the four mistakes that quietly ruin the calculation.
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Why weight loss stalls
A stall is rarely a broken metabolism. The four things that actually cause one, in the order they are likely, four questions that tell you which one you have, and why cutting calories again is usually the wrong first move.
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How much protein when you are cutting
Protein is the one macro worth being deliberate about in a deficit. The gram range at four bodyweights, the three separate reasons it earns that status, and a plain list of what an ordinary portion actually contains.
Cut does all of this for you
Photograph a meal to log it, weigh in most mornings, and Cut measures what you actually burn and keeps your target current as you lose.
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