For people who want to eat well without cooking every night
Feed yourself well all week — the whole field's journey, in about an hour.
Meal-prep advice is mostly recipe lists and someone's ten-year-old routine. This is the travel-guide version: grounded in the batch-cooking practice and the nutrition science under it, honest about what actually saves time and what only looks tidy in a photograph.
Where the field disagrees — and we don’t flatten it
Calorie Arithmetic Versus Set-Point Biology
One side
Calorie/portion-control and TDEE books treat weight as intake-minus-expenditure arithmetic: track and manage numbers and the outcome follows
The other
Lipostat/appetite-regulation and low-carb/keto books argue the brain's set-point and food quality dominate, so what you eat matters more than counting how much
How to choose. Energy-balance framing splits: some books (calorie/portion control, TDEE) treat weight as intake-vs-expenditure arithmetic, while others (lipostat/appetite-regulation, low-carb/keto) argue brain set-point and food quality dominate over calorie counting.
from Feed Yourself Well All Week — one voice cannot disagree with itself, which is why a summary has no equivalent
Why this is different
Grounded
A free summary is one voice with no receipts. Here, every claim traces to the books behind it — we read the canon so you don’t have to, and show the sources.
Aware
We take the comprehensive view — naming where the field broadly agrees and where the outliers are. On the outliers we take a position, weighed by the type and quality of the evidence behind it: the author’s, or our own research.
Essential
Not exhaustive, not thin — only what’s load-bearing, ordered as a journey from foundations to the summit. Light enough to carry.
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