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Energy balance

“I barely eat, Jamie, and I still can't lose any of the weight.”

I hear this constantly. Here's the bit that gets missed.

Your body isn't a calculator. Calories in, calories out, yes, but the “out” side isn't fixed. Eat less for long enough and your body turns the dial down. Less fidgeting, less movement, a little less burned. All to protect you.

That's not you failing. That's biology doing its job. Which is why the goal was never the smallest deficit you can survive. It's the one you can actually live with.

Calorie & TDEE calculator

Your maintenance calories and a fat-loss target that fits your life.

Fill in the fields to see your numbers.

Uses the Mifflin-St Jeor equation (the most accurate everyday BMR formula we have) multiplied by your activity factor.

Goal & timeline

How long your goal could take, and the deficit it needs.

Enter your current and goal weight.

Protein

“I'm eating loads of protein.” How much? “Oh, loads.”

It's almost never loads.

The number that actually matters
1.4–2 gper kilo of bodyweight a day. For most adults that's 100–160 g, and past 30 it isn't optional. It's the single biggest thing protecting the muscle you'd otherwise quietly lose.

Your protein target

Your number, not a guess.

Enter your weight to see your protein target.

Protein finder

Stuck on a meal? Tell it what you need and get sources, serving sizes and macros.

The cheat sheet: a palm of protein at every meal

And no, you don't need powders (but they do make life easier). Real servings, real numbers:

2 large eggs13 g protein156 kcal · 1 C · 11 F
0% Greek yoghurt200 g20 g protein116 kcal · 7 C · 0 F
Chicken breast120 g cooked37 g protein198 kcal · 0 C · 4 F
Salmon fillet130 g26 g protein240 kcal · 0 C · 15 F
Tin of tunadrained28 g protein128 kcal · 0 C · 1 F
5% beef mince125 g cooked33 g protein205 kcal · 0 C · 7 F
Skyr150 g16 g protein95 kcal · 6 C · 0 F
Whey protein1 scoop24 g protein120 kcal · 3 C · 2 F
Firm tofu150 g24 g protein220 kcal · 4 C · 13 F
Cottage cheese150 g17 g protein147 kcal · 5 C · 6 F
King prawns150 g26 g protein132 kcal · 0 C · 2 F
Lentils200 g cooked18 g protein230 kcal · 40 C · 1 F
Low-fat cheddar40 g10 g protein78 kcal · 0 C · 4 F
Skimmed milklarge glass (300 ml)10 g protein105 kcal · 15 C · 0 F
Light mozzarella60 g12 g protein102 kcal · 1 C · 6 F
Turkey breast slices4 slices (100 g)22 g protein104 kcal · 1 C · 1 F
High-protein pudding pot200 g20 g protein180 kcal · 18 C · 3 F
Tinned sardines90 g drained22 g protein189 kcal · 0 C · 11 F
Edamame beans150 g podded17 g protein183 kcal · 13 C · 8 F
Quorn pieces150 g21 g protein141 kcal · 7 C · 3 F
Sleep

When a client's stuck, the first thing I ask about isn't their food. It's their sleep.

400–560extra calories eaten the next day when sleep is cut to around five hours, in controlled studies. Reaching for the quick, sweet stuff, and never feeling any more full for it.
55%less fat lost on the same diet, sleeping 5.5 hours instead of 8.5.

Sources: Spaeth et al., Sleep (2013) and Calvin et al., Chest (2013) for next-day intake under sleep restriction; Nedeltcheva et al., Annals of Internal Medicine (2010) for fat lost at 5.5 vs 8.5 hours on matched diets.

The Balance sleep protocol

Seven rules. Tick them off tonight. Your progress saves on this device.

This was never about willpower. A tired brain wants fast energy. Sleep isn't the thing you sort once the diet's working. It's part of the overall strategy.

Your sleep routine blueprint

Four decisions, made once. Then your evenings run themselves.

Give yourself at least 30 minutes of genuine wind-down before lights out. Your times save on this device.

Bundles your blueprint times, the seven rules and the supplement guide. Choose “Save as PDF” in the print window.

Supplements that can help

Optional extras. The routine does the heavy lifting.

  • Magnesium bisglycinate200–250 mg before bed

    Easily absorbed, with calming properties that can help with stress, anxiety and getting to sleep more readily.

  • L-theanine100–400 mg

    Promotes a relaxed state without drowsiness. No sedative effect, just a calmer brain and better sleep quality.

  • Apigeninthe calming compound in chamomile

    A plant flavone with anxiety-reducing effects at good doses. A strong cup or two of chamomile tea in your wind-down is the easy route in.

Also worth it: a blue-light filter on your phone in the evening, lavender for the wind-down (spray, diffuser or a scented pillow), and a bedroom between 15.6–19.4°C.

Supplements are optional and not suitable for everyone, so check with your GP or pharmacist, especially alongside medication.

Alcohol

No lecture here. I don't drink, but I understand that many people do, and enjoy it.

But the maths is the maths.

Alcohol carries 7 calories a gram, nearly as much as pure fat (9 kcal), and it feeds nothing. No muscle, no fullness. Then it lowers your guard, and the picking and the overeating creeps in: another 80–250 calories on top. A good night out can quietly cost 250–500 calories before you've even noticed.

You don't have to give it up. You just have to be informed and intentional: pick the nights that matter, and stop telling yourself the wine doesn't count.

1 Nutrient metabolism

Alcohol can't be stored, so your body drops everything to burn it off and shuttles the food around it into storage instead. The high-fat, starchy-carb finale (the kebab and chips) is the perfect storm for fat storage.

2 Sleep & recovery

Drink knocks you out, then wrecks the quality and quantity of the night, and the late one bleeds into tomorrow's mood, food choices, recovery and training.

3 Decision making

It fades with the dose, and again the next day, through poorer sleep, mood and blood-sugar regulation. Decide your numbers while you're sober.

What's your week costing?

Honest numbers, no judgement.

Add what you actually drink. This stays between you and the maths.

Drink & still progress

The five rules that let both happen.

  • Cap the nights, not the fun. Pick the one or two nights that actually matter this week. Skip the Tuesday-sofa wine that you don't even taste.
  • Protein and wholegrains around drinks. Least likely to end up stored, a steadier insulin response, more filling, and they blunt some of the alcohol's absorption through the gut.
  • Set your cut-off before you start, and don't mix drinks. Decision-making declines with the dose, so decide the number while you're sober.
  • Clear spirits, zero-calorie mixers. Gin or vodka with a diet mixer is ~61 kcal; a large wine is ~228. Same night out, a third of the cost.
  • Alternate with zero. Every other drink: water, soda-lime, zero beer. Halves the calories, doubles the morning after.
  • Guard the routine. Bed as close to your usual time as you can manage, fluids before bed and immediately on waking.
  • Never bank starvation. Skipping meals to “save” calories for drinking ends one way: drinking on an empty stomach, then eating the fridge. Eat normally, drink intentionally.
Jamie's morning-after kit: before bed: fluids, 3–4 g of omega-3s, a vitamin C and a protein bar. On waking: more fluids, a good black coffee, a protein-rich breakfast and fresh air early on. A big walk always helps.
Goal setting

“I’ll start Monday.” Then Monday goes wrong, and it’s over.

One bad day shouldn't cost you the whole month. Here's the fix.

Floor and ceiling goals let you keep ticking your boxes and moving forward, while working with the circumstances you're actually in. There's no sense setting your sights on lofty goals in a week that's already packed, or on the days you're unwell or just not feeling great in yourself.

Your floor is the baseline. Relatively easy to reach, but enough that you finish the day knowing you still took care of yourself. Your ceiling is the idealised version: if everything were working for you, this is what a big stride forward looks like.

Take your training. The floor for the week might be a decent walk every day. The ceiling is those walks, with your sessions on top. You can sit anywhere in between, and it all still counts.

Floors & ceilings generator

Tell it your goal in your own words. It'll set the floor and the ceiling around it.

Try:

Type your goal above and we'll build the two ends around it.

More

One more worth knowing.

Waist-to-height ratio

A simple health marker, better than BMI for body shape.

Measure your waist at the belly button, relaxed.

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These tools give evidence-based estimates for general guidance only. They aren't medical or individualised advice. For a plan built around you, take the free fat loss audit or work with us.

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