Phantom Fat: Why You Can Still See Your Old Body After Losing Weight on a GLP-1
Lost weight on a GLP-1 but still see your old body? What phantom fat is, when it's body dysmorphia and when it isn't, how body checking keeps the old picture going, and three small CBT steps built on free workbooks from Western Australia's CCI.
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Health at Every Size: What It Gets Right, What the Evidence Says, and Where GLP-1s Fit
What Health at Every Size (HAES) says now, including ASDAH's 2024 principles, what the trials found, where critics push back, and where HAES ideas and GLP-1 medicines such as Zepbound and Wegovy can coexist, and where they can't.
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The F*ck It Diet by Caroline Dooner: An Honest, Evidence-Checked Review
Caroline Dooner's anti-diet book, checked against the research: what it gets right about restriction and bingeing, where it overreaches, why no trial has tested it, and what it means if you're on, or coming off, Wegovy, Mounjaro or Zepbound.
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Intuitive Eating on a GLP-1: Can You Listen to Hunger When the Medicine Turns It Down?
Can you eat intuitively when a GLP-1 turns your hunger down? The 10 principles, what the research says about intuitive eating and weight, why eating at planned times stands in for hunger on the medicine, and what happens when you stop.
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Overcoming Binge Eating by Christopher Fairburn: What the Programme Asks, Whether It Works, and Where a GLP-1 Fits
Fairburn's self-help programme for binge eating, step by step: what each section asks, what the trials found (roughly 4 to 6 in 10 stopped bingeing with brief support), who it isn't for, and what's known and unknown on or after a GLP-1.
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Eloralintide Plus Tirzepatide (EloraTZP), Explained
EloraTZP pairs eloralintide, an amylin drug, with tirzepatide, the medicine in Mounjaro. What amylin does, the phase 2 trial in type 2 diabetes (up to 23.3% vs 14.8%), how many stopped because of side effects, and how it compares with retatrutide.
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Foundayo vs Wegovy Pill: UK Weight Loss Tablets Compared
Foundayo and the Wegovy pill side by side, from both UK labels: how each is taken, the dose steps, what the trials found, side effects, who each is licensed for and where NICE has got to.
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Eating Less but Gaining Weight? Why Under-Eating Backfires
No breakfast, a small lunch, then a Magnum and a glass of wine at night? Why under-eating backfires, how far off calorie labels can be, and the six pillars of health. Inspired by nutritionist Dr Federica Amati.
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How to Improve Self-Esteem: The Rules You Live By, and How to Loosen Them
Rules like 'If I eat after 8pm, I've failed' or 'I must be slim to be liked' keep self-esteem low. How CBT spots and loosens them, what the research shows, and a free two-page worksheet.
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Why Regular Eating Works: Hunger, Hormones and the Binge-Restrict Cycle
Eating every three to four hours is the first step in CBT for binge eating. The research behind it, where it's solid and where it isn't, and why it matters when you come off a GLP-1.
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Why Your Body Needs Carbs and Fat, Even on a GLP-1
Carbs and fat both do jobs your body can't skip. What the evidence says about fibre, saturated fat, low-carb vs low-fat, and eating well on a GLP-1.
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Set Point Theory: Why Your Weight Moves, Why It Pushes Back, and Why That Isn't a Verdict on You
Why the scale jumps day to day, why your body defends its weight, and what the GLP-1 withdrawal trials show. Set point science, minus the fear.
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I Microdosed Mounjaro and Retatrutide for 13 Months, Then Stopped. Here Is All of My Data.
6,469 diary entries, 42 injections, 337 weigh-ins, 41 symptom logs, two bioimpedance scans, progress photos and every data quirk the audit found. One person's complete GLP-1 ledger, published in full.
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CBT for Eating Disorders: How Therapy and Carbs Support Weight Loss
Food obsession behaves like addiction, but abstinence can't be the cure. What the Fairburn CBT model actually says, why carbs matter for mood, and how to track without being controlled by it.
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Small, Filling Snacks: 44 Ideas Built From the Satiety Research
44 small snacks that fill you up, built from the satiety research: protein-first picks, the potato trick, and portions in grams so they read the same in the UK, Ireland, Australia and the US.
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Storing and Travelling With Your GLP-1 Pen: What the Label Actually Says
Mounjaro and Wegovy have different storage rules, and most guides flatten them into one. The real figures from the UK SmPCs, the in-use clock people get wrong, the fridge mistake that ruins pens, and flying with them.
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Amycretin (Zenagamtide): What the Trials Actually Show
Novo Nordisk's GLP-1 and amylin co-agonist, in both injection and tablet form, and now formally renamed. The published Lancet figures, why the placebo arms matter, and the UK trial sites recruiting now.
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MariTide: The Monthly Injection That Blocks GIP
Amgen's monthly injection blocks the receptor Mounjaro (Zepbound in the US) switches on, and still takes weight off. The phase 2 figures, the two numbers everyone quotes, and what the paradox means for the next decade of obesity drugs.
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Why Writing It Down Works: The Science of Food Diaries and Weight Loss
In a 1,685-person trial, people who kept daily food records lost twice as much as those who kept none. The evidence for food diaries, how little time they take, and why they matter more on a GLP-1, not less.
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GLP-1 Weight-Loss Plateau: Why It Stalls, and What Actually Restarts It
The curve flattens in the trials too. What metabolic adaptation, intake drift, dose ceilings and lost muscle each contribute to a stall, and what the evidence says restarts it.
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Coming Off a GLP-1: A Maintenance Playbook
Two-thirds of the weight came back within a year in the STEP 1 extension, where the drug and the lifestyle programme both stopped at once. What that study really measured, what habits can and can't do, and six things worth having in place before your last dose.
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Protecting Muscle on a GLP-1: The Protein and Resistance-Training Protocol
A quarter to two-fifths of medically induced weight loss can be lean mass, and that ratio is changeable. The g/kg numbers the evidence supports, the training dose, and how to hit both on a suppressed appetite.
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Can You Breathe Into a Gadget Instead of Counting Calories? An Honest Look at Lumen
Lumen measures which fuel you're burning, not how many calories you ate. What the science actually says, how strong the validation really is, the honest pros and cons, and who it suits.
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The Obesity Code by Jason Fung: What It Gets Right, and Where the Evidence Disagrees
A balanced review of Jason Fung's bestseller: the reframe that genuinely helps people, where the insulin theory runs into the metabolic-ward studies, what the fasting trials really show, and how he suggests you eat.
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I Never Wanted to Push Myself in the Gym. Then I Treated It Like Medication.
I never wanted to push myself in the gym, my life was already hard. The shift was treating exercise and sleep with the same non-negotiable status as medication. The behavioural science of why we resist movement, and how to actually change it.
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Eat the Protein First: Why 500 Calories of Salmon Isn't 500 Calories of Chocolate
500 calories of salmon does something very different in your body than 500 calories of chocolate. The science of eating protein first, food order and blood sugar, and why your body keeps you hungry until it gets the protein it wants.
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The Case for Big Salads: Volume Eating for Losing and Maintaining Weight
Built well, a big salad is huge, filling and barely dents your calories for the day. The satiety research on energy density, protein and fibre, plus how I actually build mine.
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A Kilo Up After Two Holidays: How Much of It Is Actually Fat?
The scale jumped a kilo after a week away and your brain says a month of work is gone. The maths disagrees: glycogen, water and salt explain most of it. What the scale is really weighing, and what to do next.
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Two Magnums and a Wave of Guilt: How the All-or-Nothing Cycle Works, and How to Break It
One 'bad' food, a wave of shame, then either punishing restriction or the rest of the tub. The cycle has a name in behavioural science, decades of research, and a way out.
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Quitting GLP-1s: What Actually Happens, and How to Do It on Purpose
The withdrawal trials tell us what returns and how fast. Quitting is a phase to plan, not a cliff to fall off: the data, the biology, and the structure that helps.
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I Used to Think Potatoes Were Bad for Me. Then I Read the Satiety Research
Boiled potatoes top the satiety index at three times white bread, yet potato products top the weight-gain charts. Both are true, and the kitchen maths explains everything.
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Bodyweight Training on a GLP-1: Protecting the Weight You Want to Keep
A quarter to two-fifths of GLP-1 weight loss can be lean mass. Resistance training largely prevents it, and your own bodyweight is enough kit. The evidence plus a no-kit routine.
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CagriSema vs Mounjaro: What the Trial Data Actually Shows
Novo's next act pairs semaglutide with an amylin analogue and posted about 23% in REDEFINE-1. The honest comparison with Mounjaro's 21%, and when the UK might see it.
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How Are People Finding Orforglipron? Three Months of Real-World Reports
Foundayo launched in April 2026. What early users consistently praise, what they struggle with, and how the anecdotes square with the ATTAIN trial data.
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The Wegovy Pill Is Now Available in the UK: Prices, Where to Buy, and What to Check
The Wegovy pill (oral semaglutide 25 mg) is now on sale in the UK, private-only for now. Launch prices from £107.99 a month, the pharmacies stocking it, and five safety checks before you order.
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The 25mg Pill vs 0.5mg Injection Confusion: Why They're NOT the Same Dose
Why a 25mg oral GLP-1 pill and a 0.5mg injection aren't the mismatch they look like. Bioavailability explained, why there's no mg-to-mg formula, and what the UK and US labels say about switching.
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Why Some People Choose the GLP-1 Pill Over the Needle (And What It Means)
Needle fear is common and keeps some people off GLP-1 injections. With the Wegovy pill now approved in the UK, here is what the pill option really means, and how well it works.
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Foundayo (Orforglipron) UK: Doses, How to Take It and NHS Status
Foundayo (orforglipron) in the UK, from the UK label: the 0.8 to 17.2 mg doses, how to take it with no food or water rules, side effects, who it's licensed for and where NICE has got to.
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How Healthcount Works: A Complete Walkthrough (Start Here)
A step-by-step tour of Healthcount, from sign up to your daily diary, dose schedule and trends. Everything you can track, what the icons mean, and how to get the most from it.
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What's Worth Buying on Your GLP-1 Weight-Loss Journey (and What to Skip)
What genuinely helps on a GLP-1, what to skip, and the order to spend in. Contains clearly marked paid links.
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Protein Powder and GLP-1s: The Good, the Bad, and What to Look For
Why protein matters so much on a GLP-1, how much you actually need, whey versus plant, what to look for on the label, and the marketing claims to ignore.
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Wegovy Tracker for the UK and Europe: A Simple GLP-1 Progress Dashboard
Track your Wegovy doses, weight and food in one simple dashboard. Built for people on Wegovy in the UK and Europe. Start free in under 30 seconds.
Read more →Wegovy Pill Tracker (Oral Semaglutide): A UK Progress Dashboard
Track your daily Wegovy pill, weight and food in one simple dashboard. Built for people on oral semaglutide in the UK. Start free in under 30 seconds.
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Wegovy Pill UK: How to Take It, Doses and When It Works
How to take the Wegovy pill from the UK label: the fasting routine, the 1.5 to 25 mg doses, how long it takes to work, side effects, what the OASIS 4 trial found and why it isn't on the NHS.
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Metabolic Syndrome and Your Desk Job: What Modern Work Does to Your Health
What metabolic syndrome is, how sitting all day, shift work and office snacking raise your risk of type 2 diabetes and heart disease, and what you and your employer can do about it.
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Your Period, Your Weight and Your Mood: What Really Happens Across the Month
Why the scale rises before your period (it's water, not fat), why you're hungrier in the second half of your cycle, and how to track your weight as a woman without the monthly panic.
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Does Your Environment Affect Your Weight? The Obesogenic Environment, Explained
Why your surroundings, not just willpower, shape your weight. The obesogenic environment explained, plus simple ways to design your home and workday for weight loss.
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Creatine: The Benefits for Body and Brain (and Why Women Needn't Fear It)
An evidence-based guide to creatine for body and brain: strength, muscle preservation, mood, safety and dosing. Plus why it's especially useful, and safe, for women and anyone on a GLP-1.
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Ultra-Processed Food and Weight: What the Science Actually Says
What ultra-processed food really is, what the strongest studies show about UPF and weight gain, and realistic swaps for busy people, without the food guilt.
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The Best Vegetables for Weight Loss: A Simple Tier List
A simple tier list of vegetables by what they bring: water and fibre to fill you up, protein from peas and pulses, and starchy veg for the carb part of a meal. Where potatoes really fit.
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Low Calorie Snacks: Filling Picks and Ideas for Every Craving
Snacks that fill you up, led by protein, fibre and water, plus more ideas for when you fancy something crunchy, sweet or creamy. No banned foods, and numbers are optional.
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The Best Fruits for Weight Loss: A Simple Tier List
All whole fruit is good for you. A simple tier list of fruit by what it brings: fibre and water to fill you up, natural sweetness, and where dried fruit, juice and avocado fit.
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Do You Weigh Food Raw or Cooked? How Cooking Changes the Calories
The same food has different calories per 100g depending on how it's cooked. Why raw vs cooked weight matters, the biggest offenders, and the simplest way to log accurately.
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How to Install the Healthcount App on iPhone & Android
No app store needed — add Healthcount to your home screen in a few taps. Step-by-step for iPhone (Safari) and Android (Chrome), plus troubleshooting.
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Can Obese Children Take GLP-1s? A UK Parent's Guide
Which weight-loss injections are licensed for children in the UK, what the trials actually show, the risks and unknowns, and how NHS access really works for under-18s.
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Can GLP-1s Help With Addiction and Alcohol? What the Science Says
Could Ozempic, Wegovy or Mounjaro help a family member drink less? An honest, sourced look at the evidence on GLP-1s and alcohol, and where to get real help in the UK.
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Free Alternative to Cronometer (2026): Why UK Users Are Switching
Looking for a free Cronometer alternative without intrusive ads? Compare features, pricing, and see why Healthcount is the better choice for UK GLP-1 users.
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Free Alternative to MyFitnessPal (2026): No Ads, No Paywall, GLP-1 Ready
A free, ad-free, UK-built MyFitnessPal alternative with clean macro tracking, AI meal photos and GLP-1 dose & symptom logging — no Premium paywall.
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Free Alternative to Nutracheck (2026): UK Tracking Without a Subscription
Nutracheck has great UK food data but it's a paid subscription with no GLP-1 support. Healthcount is free, UK-built, and tracks doses and symptoms too.
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Free Alternative to Lose It! (2026): UK-Built With GLP-1 Support
A free, UK-built Lose It! alternative with macro tracking, AI meal photos and GLP-1 dose & symptom logging — no ads and no Premium paywall.
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Free Alternative to Shotsy (2026): GLP-1 Tracking Plus Food, Any Device
Shotsy is iOS-only and charges for full features. Healthcount tracks GLP-1 doses, symptoms, weight and macros together — free, on web, iPhone and Android.
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Mounjaro UK units ↔ mL ↔ mg calculator (U-100)
UK-first calculator to convert between pen strength (mg), U-100 syringe units, and mL in seconds. Includes conversion tables for every UK pen strength.
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Mounjaro Tracker for UK & Europe — Simple GLP-1 Progress Dashboard
Track your Mounjaro doses, weight and food in one simple dashboard. Built for people on Mounjaro in the UK & Europe.
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Should you cover Wegovy or Mounjaro at work?
A guide for UK employers on GLP-1 policy: options, eligibility, cost modelling, and how to measure impact without prying on members.
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GLP-1 Weight Loss Drugs Explained (Wegovy, Ozempic, Mounjaro)
A simple guide to GLP-1 weight loss injections in the UK: what Wegovy, Ozempic and Mounjaro are, how they work, who they're for, and what to track in Healthcount.
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Retatrutide vs Mounjaro UK: 2026 Results and Side Effects
Retatrutide vs Mounjaro (tirzepatide): what the 2026 TRIUMPH trials found, the side effects including the skin tingling, where UK licensing stands, and why retatrutide on sale in the UK is illegal.
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How Much Mounjaro Is Left in My Body After 1 to 7 Days?
Understand Mounjaro's 5-day half-life: how much tirzepatide remains after 1 to 7 days, worked examples of re-dosing, and how long it takes to fully clear.
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Mounjaro UK conversion to mL and units
UK tables that convert syringe units to mL and mg, showing how pen strength changes the units you draw.
Read more →Mounjaro UK Dose Tracking App — Simple Weekly Dosing, Done Right
UK-specific guide to the dose ladder, missed-dose rules, storage, and the easiest way to track weekly injections.
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