Don't Go Into a Deficit This Spring Until You've Listened To This

Summer's coming, and with it, the usual wave of "lose weight before it gets hot" messaging. Before you touch a single macro or calorie target, Bec walks through the conceptual groundwork she wishes everyone worked through before starting a deficit, not after they've already quit one.

We're not saying 'don't do it,' but here's what you need to know before you do.

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• Why a deficit is stress (physiological and psychological) — and why your nervous system doesn't sort stress into "intentional" and "unintentional" piles

• The honest audit to run before adding a deficit on top of everything else already on your plate

• Why wanting fat loss and being resourced for it are two different things — and why staying at maintenance can be the more advanced move

• How a deficit affects cognitive flexibility and willpower, and why decisions made in a calm state beat decisions made at 9pm in front of the fridge

• Why pausing a deficit is a skill, not a failure — and how to decide in advance what "pausing well" looks like

• The questions to ask yourself before you start: what's already on your plate, why you actually want this, and how you'll respond if it gets hard

Before asking "what should my calories be," ask: How much room do I actually have right now? Am I doing this because I want it, or because it feels expected? And if it gets hard three weeks in, will I read that as failure — or as a signal that something needs to change?