Why the Scale Drops When You Skip Meals
It’s a familiar story: someone cuts their food right back for a few days, steps on the scale, and sees a couple of kilos gone.
It’s a familiar story: someone cuts their food right back for a few days, steps on the scale, and sees a couple of kilos gone.
Calories in versus calories out” is the explanation most people have heard for weight loss, and at a basic level it’s not wrong.
There’s a piece of fitness advice repeated so often it’s practically accepted as fact: lift weights, clean up your diet, and the weight will drop.
This pattern comes up often in young athletes: two kids start the same training schedule at the same age, and one copes easily while the other keeps getting injured.
One of the trickiest things about overtraining is that it doesn’t feel like a problem while it’s happening.