Fat loss

Articles on losing body fat and keeping it off: calories, habits, the mental side, and the mistakes that stall progress. Written by our coaching team.

25 articles in this section, of 63 in the journal.

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Fat loss5 min read

5 Ways To Diet Whilst Feeling Full & Optimising Your Health!

Dieting does not have to mean hungry, tired and cold. Five ways to eat in a deficit while staying full, with the food choices that make it manageable.

Lizzie Bell10 April 2026

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Fat loss5 min read

How To Stop Binge Eating

When an evening meal turns into far more than you planned. Why it happens on a fat loss plan, and the practical changes that stop the pattern repeating.

Lizzie Bell10 April 2026

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Fat loss5 min read

Fat Loss Drugs:Quick Fact Guide

Ozempic, Wegovy and Mounjaro explained in short. What GLP-1 drugs do, what they do not do, and the questions worth asking before you consider one.

Lizzie Bell24 March 2026

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Fat loss5 min read

Can You Actually Reduce Belly Fat?

No, you cannot spot reduce belly fat with targeted exercises. What the research says about where fat comes off, and what does work for losing it.

Lizzie Bell18 February 2026

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Fat loss5 min read

Avoid These 5 Mistakes That Are Stopping You Losing Weight

You set the goal and it is not happening. Five traps that quietly stall weight loss, and the change to make in each one so the next month looks different.

Lizzie Bell5 February 2026

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Fat loss5 min read

8 Key Mindset Principles For Successful Fatloss

Fat loss is largely a mental game. Eight principles that separate the people who keep the weight off from the people who lose it and find it again.

Lizzie Bell1 July 2025

Fat loss5 min read

5 HUGE Fatloss Mistakes To Avoid

The five errors our coaches see most often in people trying to lose body fat, why each one stalls progress, and what to do differently from this week.

Lizzie Bell25 June 2025

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Fat loss5 min read

Are You Too Stressed To Lose Weight?

Stress is one of the biggest blocks to losing weight and one of the most overlooked. How it works against you, and practical ways to manage stress eating.

Lizzie Bell25 June 2025

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Fat loss5 min read

Be Less Perfect. Lose More Fat!

Black and white thinking has its uses, but in fat loss it backfires. Why the all-or-nothing approach stalls progress and what to replace it with instead.

Lizzie Bell25 June 2025

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Fat loss5 min read

Drop Body Fat By STOPPING These 5 Things!

After coaching people through losses of 10 to 50kg, the pattern is what they stopped doing rather than what they started. The five habits worth dropping.

Lizzie Bell25 June 2025

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Fat loss5 min read

Get Your Head in the Game for Fat Loss!

Losing a substantial amount of weight and keeping it off is mostly a mental job. The thinking that makes it sustainable rather than another short attempt.

Lizzie Bell25 June 2025

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Fat loss5 min read

How Quickly Should You Lose Weight?

Fast and hard, or slower and sustainable. The trade-off between the two approaches, and how to pick the rate of loss you can actually hold on to.

Lizzie Bell25 June 2025

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Fat loss5 min read

How To Break Free From Yo-Yo Dieting

Lose it, find it, start again. Why the cycle repeats, what makes this attempt different from the last one, and the steps that break the pattern for good.

Lizzie Bell25 June 2025

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Fat loss5 min read

Calories-How Many Should You Be Having?

A step-by-step way to work out how many calories you need, why most people get the number wrong, and how to adjust it once you have started tracking.

Lizzie Bell24 June 2025

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Fat loss5 min read

How To Change A Habit That’s Stopping Your Weight loss

One or two patterns of behaviour are usually what keep setting people back. How to find yours and change it, rather than restarting the whole plan again.

Lizzie Bell24 June 2025

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Fat loss5 min read

HOW To Improve Your Sleep

Everyone knows sleep matters. This is the how: the routine, the room and the daytime habits that change how well you sleep and how you feel training.

Lizzie Bell24 June 2025

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Fat loss5 min read

Is Poor Sleep Making You Fat?!

Sleep comes up with every fat loss client, and most are unsure why it matters. What short sleep does to appetite, cravings and training the next day.

Lizzie Bell24 June 2025

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Fat loss5 min read

Perfectionism Could Be Killing Your Goals!

High standards help, until they stop you starting. How perfectionism sabotages health goals, and what a good-enough week looks like in practice.

Lizzie Bell24 June 2025

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Fat loss5 min read

Read This If You Are Considering Using Weight Loss Drugs!

Semaglutide drugs are here to stay and the market is forecast in the billions. How they work, what they cost you, and what to weigh up before starting.

Lizzie Bell24 June 2025

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Fat loss5 min read

Start To Prioritise Yourself To Maximise Your Health

Everyone else's needs come first until your own health slides. How to build the habits that put you back in the diary, without upending everything.

Lizzie Bell24 June 2025

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Fat loss5 min read

The Formula for the BEST Workout

Fifteen years in the industry and there is still no perfect workout formula. What to build a session around instead so it moves you towards your goal.

Lizzie Bell24 June 2025

Fat loss5 min read

The Secret To Losing Weight At Christmas AND Still Enjoying It!

Contrary to popular belief you can do both. How to handle the parties, the food and the fortnight off without writing off the whole of December.

Lizzie Bell24 June 2025

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Fat loss5 min read

Why Did My Performance Drop In The Gym Last Week?

A bad week in the gym is information, not a verdict. The usual reasons performance dips, how to tell which one it was, and what to change next session.

Lizzie Bell24 June 2025

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Fat loss5 min read

YOLO So Don't Yo-yo!

Extreme measures produce weight loss you cannot keep. Why the yo-yo cycle is so common, and what a version you could live with for years looks like.

Lizzie Bell24 June 2025

Fat loss5 min read

The Big Secret to Fat Loss!

There is no secret, and that is the point. What consistently works for losing body fat, and why the search for something cleverer keeps people stuck.

Lizzie Bell22 May 2025

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