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Jack Radford-Smith
March 30, 2026

The Complete Guide to Dietary Fibre: Intake, Types, and Health Benefits

Jack Radford-Smith
March 30, 2026

A dietitian's complete guide to dietary fibre covering the three fibre types, recommended intake targets, the best food sources for lifters, and the health outcomes linked to adequate intake. Includes practical strategies for meeting fibre goals within a structured nutrition plan.

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Jack Radford-Smith
March 28, 2026

Contest Prep Habits That Shape Your Experience and Stage Outcome

Jack Radford-Smith
March 28, 2026

Thirteen habits and decisions that shape your contest prep experience and stage outcome. A dietitian explains the patterns that separate well-managed preps from reactive ones, and how to build the habits that compound in your favour over time.

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Jack Radford-Smith
March 28, 2026

How Sleep Affects Muscle Growth, Fat Loss, and Appetite: What the Research Shows

Jack Radford-Smith
March 28, 2026

How even a single week of poor sleep affects cortisol, hunger, muscle protein synthesis, insulin sensitivity, and testosterone. A dietitian explains what the research shows and provides practical strategies for improving sleep quality.

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Jack Radford-Smith
March 25, 2026

Meal Plans for Fat Loss and Muscle Gain: Pros, Cons, and Alternatives

Jack Radford-Smith
March 25, 2026

A dietitian's honest assessment of meal plans: when they reduce friction and support progress, when they become counterproductive, and how to use them as a stepping stone toward long-term nutritional independence.

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Jack Radford-Smith
March 23, 2026

Outdated Bodybuilding Nutrition Practices and What Works Better

Jack Radford-Smith
March 23, 2026

Five inherited bodybuilding nutrition practices that do not hold up under scrutiny, and the evidence-informed alternatives that produce better outcomes with less risk. A dietitian explains each one.

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Jack Radford-Smith
March 21, 2026

How to Structure a Calorie Deficit: Four Approaches That Work

Jack Radford-Smith
March 21, 2026

Four ways to structure a calorie deficit around your lifestyle and training, all producing the same weekly energy balance. A practical guide to choosing the approach that fits your routine, preferences, and goals.

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Jack Radford-Smith
March 18, 2026

Do You Need to Track Macros? How to Decide Based on Your Goals

Jack Radford-Smith
March 18, 2026

A practical decision-making framework for determining whether macro tracking suits your current goals, experience, and relationship with food, with guidance on when to track, when to stop, and what alternatives exist.

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Jack Radford-Smith
March 17, 2026

High-Fibre Foods Ranked by Calories and Cost

Jack Radford-Smith
March 17, 2026

A visual comparison of 38 common foods ranked by the calories, cost, and serving size needed to deliver 10 grams of dietary fibre, with practical insights for building a fibre-rich diet on a calorie budget.

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Jack Radford-Smith
March 15, 2026

Gut Health for Lifters: Why Dietary Diversity Matters for Digestion

Jack Radford-Smith
March 15, 2026

A practical guide to gut health for lifters and physique-focused individuals, covering why dietary diversity matters for the microbiome, how fibre and fermented foods support digestion, and what daily habits make the biggest difference.

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Jack Radford-Smith
March 11, 2026

What Bodybuilders Hear During Prep and Why It Matters

Jack Radford-Smith
March 11, 2026

A practical guide to the well-intentioned comments bodybuilding competitors commonly hear during contest prep, why they land the way they do, and how athletes and the people around them can navigate these conversations more effectively.

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Why You Stay Hungry on a Diet: Ten Factors Beyond Calorie Intake

Persistent hunger during a fat loss phase can reflect ten distinct drivers across four categories. A dietitian's framework identifies the nutritional, environmental, mechanical, adaptive, and hormonal causes of hunger, with the warning signs for each and how to address the most relevant one.

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Pre-Workout Nutrition: What to Eat, How Much, and When

Pre-workout nutrition depends on session type, duration, intensity, and how much time is available before training. A dietitian covers carbohydrate targets, timing windows, and food selection from whole foods to refined carbs for training performance and muscle retention.

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The Foundations That Determine Whether a Fat Loss Phase Will Succeed

The conditions going into a fat loss phase determine how it unfolds and whether results hold afterward. A dietitian explains the four foundational variables, covering training consistency, life context, dietary history, and relationship with food, that need to be assessed before beginning a calorie deficit.

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Protein Sources Ranked by Cost: What 30 Grams of Protein Actually Costs

The cost of obtaining 30 grams of protein varies roughly sevenfold across common sources. A dietitian compares ten foods by cost per 30 grams of protein with calorie data for each, based on average retail prices.

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The Bodybuilding Phases That Actually Determine Stage Outcomes

The muscle that determines stage outcomes is built during improvement season, which requires 12 to 24 or more months to work effectively. A dietitian explains the multi-phasic structure of bodybuilding and why most competitors do not prioritise the phases that matter most.

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How to Lose Fat While Keeping Muscle: A Four-Skill Framework

How to lose fat while keeping muscle: a framework covering energy balance, protein intake, dietary adherence, and progress tracking, with practical targets for each skill.

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How Accurate Is Macro Tracking? The Sources of Error You Should Know About

Macro tracking is an approximation. Food labels can legally be up to 20 percent off, whole foods vary with ripeness and source, and cooking changes macronutrient concentration per gram. A dietitian explains how these errors stack up and how to calibrate tracking precision to the goal.

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Why Progress Stalls: A Framework for Identifying Training and Nutrition Plateaus

A stalled scale or a stuck lift is a symptom, not a diagnosis. This framework identifies nine plateau causes across four categories, with the signs for each and the appropriate response, so the intervention matches the actual mechanism driving the stall.

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Contest Prep: Five Factors That Determine Peak Conditioning on Stage

Most of what decides how a competitor looks on stage is determined before the deficit starts. Starting body composition, underlying muscle mass, rate of loss, timeline, and psychological readiness are the five variables that shape a bodybuilding prep from the inside out.

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Nutrition Priorities: What to Focus On First for Body Composition and Performance

Nutrition decisions are often approached in the wrong order. A dietitian maps six common pairings where effort is frequently directed at the lower-return variable before the higher-return one is consistently managed, and explains the right priority order for body composition and performance.

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Which Foods Give You the Most Fibre and Volume Per Calorie?

A scatterplot of over 50 foods mapping grams of food and grams of fibre per 100 calories, showing which options best support satiety and fibre targets simultaneously.

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Why Every Popular Diet Works Through the Same Mechanism

Every popular diet, from keto to intermittent fasting to paleo, produces weight loss through the same mechanism: a calorie deficit. A dietitian explains the common mechanism, why adherence determines outcomes more than diet type, and what this means for choosing a dietary approach.

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Diet Fatigue: Why Dieting Gets Harder Over Time and How to Manage It

Diet fatigue is a predictable physiological and psychological response to sustained energy restriction, not a sign of inadequate motivation. A dietitian explains the mechanisms behind it, how to recognise the signals that warrant action, and the strategies that help a fat loss phase keep progressing.

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