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Understanding how many calories you should eat daily for weight loss is one of the most fundamental questions in health and fitness. There’s no one size fits all answer, it depends on your gender, age, activity level, current weight, and metabolic health.

This comprehensive guide breaks down everything you need to know about calorie intake, exercise requirements, and the relationship between calories and carbohydrates for effective, sustainable weight loss. This article contains a lot of technical information so grab a cup of tea and allow yourself a good 10 minutes to digest it, or just skip to the bits that interest you!

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If you're taking Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro, Saxenda, or Duromine, you're likely experiencing a significantly reduced appetite. While this helps with weight loss, it creates a critical challenge: how do you get adequate nutrition when you're simply not hungry?

This practical guide provides food lists and portion guidelines and a range of tips and tricks, all to help you thrive on your medication journey.

 

 

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You’re dieting and can’t imagine mornings without your brew. The big question: can you still drink coffee and lose weight? The short answer: yes… and sometimes no. It depends on how you drink it, when you drink it, and what the rest of your diet and lifestyle look like.

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For Australians living with diabetes, food labels are more than just fine print, they’re a daily tool for managing health. Understanding food labels can help you spot hidden sugars, track carbohydrates, and choose foods that support long-term wellbeing.

The challenge? Labels are designed to fit legal requirements, not necessarily to make life easy. Serving sizes vary, ingredients have confusing names, and health claims on the front don’t always tell the full story.

The good news is, once you know what to look for, labels become a reliable roadmap for smarter food choices. Below, we’ll break down exactly how Australian food labels work and what details matter most when you’re managing diabetes.

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Frozen food doesn’t always have the best reputation, mostly because the freezer section is filled with deep-fried snacks and sugary desserts. But freezing itself is just a smart way to slow deterioration and extend freshness. Before freezers were invented, people used ice boxes or even ice caves to preserve their food.

Freezing truly is a tried, tested, and totally natural means of keeping our food safe to eat for longer.

In this guide, we’ll walk you through how freezing affects nutrients, how to read labels in two minutes, simple food‑safety tips, and when a chef‑made frozen meal from whole foods (like ours at Dietlicious) can be a healthy, weeknight hero.

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If you’re trying to eat healthier, lose weight, or manage a health condition, navigating supermarket shelves can feel overwhelming. Packaging often makes bold claims - but what’s really inside? That’s where food labels come in.

Understanding how to read food labels is essential for making informed decisions about what you eat. Whether you're managing health conditions, seeking weight loss, or just aiming for a balanced diet, Australian food labels offer valuable insights into your food choices.

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Few phrases trend harder than detox diet or cleanse when you’re chasing weight loss. But here’s the catch: your body already runs a sophisticated natural detoxification system that’s operating 24/7 via your liver, kidneys, lungs, skin, and the gastrointestinal tract.

The smart play isn’t a pricey detox product, fancy supplements, or no food juice cleanses. It’s eating in a way that supports your body’s detoxification while creating a sustainable calorie deficit so weight loss can actually happen.

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Few moments in a weight loss journey feel more frustrating than stepping on the scale day after day and seeing the same number. You haven’t changed your diet or skipped workouts, yet progress has stalled. Welcome to the weight loss plateau; a normal, biologically driven pause in fat loss that almost everyone meets sooner or later. Below you’ll learn why plateaus happen, how long they last and evidence‑based ways to break through a weight loss plateau without sacrificing your health or your sanity.

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If you’ve been prescribed a GLP-1 or other medication for weight loss, your doctor has probably warned you of the importance of eating and making good choices, even if you lack an appetite. But when eating less can equate to hard-fought weight loss and you don’t feel hungry anyway, this advice can be hard to follow! Thankfully Dietlicious now offers a highly nutritious, sustainable and affordable light meal package that perfectly complements your weight loss medications.

Check out the new GLP-1 Support Meals Packs

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Making good fish choices is important for everyone who enjoys a seafood meal occasionally, but choosing the right fish matters even more if you're on a pescatarian diet.

As your main source of protein, opting for high-protein fish is an important consideration for pescatarians, as is looking for fish with good healthy omega fatty acids.

However, not all fish are created equal!

Larger, predatory fish, like tuna, while very high in protein, can also contain high mercury levels due to biomagnification (where mercury accumulates as fish eat other fish). While enjoying a delicious tuna salad or tuna sashimi occasionally won't put you in danger, mercury-heavy fish shouldn't be your mainstay when following a pescatarian eating plan.

It's also important to consider how sustainably caught or farmed your fish is. Luckily, in Australia, we're blessed with an abundance of fresh, sustainable seafood options. Locally sourced, line-caught, and organically farmed are going to be some of your best seafood options.

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