30/09/2026
The more-more-more trap: If you feel stuck and you don’t feel that you are losing weight, opting to push training and cardio more for longer and cut more calories does not need to be the right direction. It can often mean you stress your body a lot, it can start holding water, and this will mask your fat loss as water will add extra weight on top of your body. If you’re stressed in life or don’t sleep well, it can easily muck up with your body and you feel stuck. You don’t need more cardio and less calories, but less stress, more rest, and more calories.
Blindly trusting your calorie tracker: This one can feel like a joke, but hell, you really need to double check your calorie tracker. I’ve found many times mistakes in trackers because anyone can log things, and many times it is not correct—so you feel you are in a deficit and you’re not. I tracked the same meals in two trackers and the difference was 300 kcal, which isn’t a deficit anymore and wastes your time, leaving you overwhelmed wondering why the hell you aren’t moving forward with progress. Even when you scan a barcode, doesn’t mean it is correctly added into the app, so always double check, mainly products you are eating regularly, to see if they are correctly logged.
Making decisions on emotions instead of data: You need to log data and review them, not reviewing your emotions, and on that start to make actions. Your actions always need to be supported by data. How is your real deficit per week? How is it per month? This is what you need to track, and depending on this, you know what fat loss amount you should see. Also, must count with your cycle and check your weight more times per week, not just once per month—what if you just bloated or you’re storing more glycogen? This is not your weight. You should make decisions on data, not emotions! Just data can dictate your next actions.
