Your Balance Point is a reading site about energy balance: the relationship between the energy you take in as food and drink, and the energy your body spends staying alive and moving around. It has two parts, and they came from different places.

The library is a set of guides originally written for an Australian audience, in kilojoules. That is why you will see kJ first on many pages. We have not rewritten the science for a US audience; we have put the calorie beside every kilojoule, because they are the same quantity in different units (1 cal ≈ 4.2 kJ).

The GLP-1 hub is new, and mostly unwritten. Semaglutide and tirzepatide have changed what the conversation about weight sounds like, and most of what is published about them is either marketing or panic. We are building a small, sober hub instead. Pages that do not exist yet are marked in progress, so you can see exactly what is missing.

Most weight content aimed at adults does one of two things. It sells you something, usually a plan or a prescription. Or it moralises, treating a physiological signal as a character defect and your body as evidence in the case against you.

The arithmetic of energy balance is real and worth understanding. The idea that understanding it should be enough, and that failing to win against your own appetite is a personal failing, is not. Both of those things can be true at once, and almost nobody writes as though they are.

Your Balance Point is written and edited in-house by our editorial team. We are people who have spent years inside this subject rather than observing it from a distance: tracking our own intake and weight, trying the tools, and in several cases taking the medications we write about.

That is the perspective this site is built on. When we describe what a GLP-1 feels like in the first month, what the nausea is actually like, or how quickly the appetite signal comes back after stopping, we are not summarizing a press release. We are telling you what happened to us and what we heard from other people going through it, and we say which is which.

One thing we will always be straight about: we are not clinicians. Our experience is real, and it is experience of our own bodies, which is not the same as knowing what is right for yours. We can tell you what a drug did to us. Only a prescriber who knows your history can tell you what it is likely to do to you, and we would rather you trust them over us on that question.

You will not see a “medically reviewed” badge anywhere on this site, because no clinician reviews these pages and we are not going to pretend otherwise. What you get instead is a record you can check. We read the trials we cite and we link them. We report group averages as group averages, never as a result you should expect. We mark unwritten pages as unwritten instead of padding them out to look complete. When we get something wrong, we fix it on the page and say that we fixed it.

These are the rules we hold ourselves to, and you can hold any page on this site against them.

No before-and-after photographs. No miracle framing, and nothing claiming that a drug melts fat. We will not fabricate an author, invent a reviewer, or attach a “medically reviewed” badge that no clinician has put their name to. We will not use scare tactics about food, and we will not write about bodies in moral language.

On medication specifically: we describe, we do not recommend. We are not a prescriber, we do not know your history, and nothing here can substitute for a conversation with someone who does.

This is the question that tells you the most about a health site, so it gets a plain answer rather than a paragraph of hedging. Any revenue arrangement that exists will be named here, on this page, before you encounter it anywhere else on the site.

Your Balance Point earns affiliate commissions. When we link to a telehealth provider that prescribes or supplies GLP-1 medications, and you sign up with them, we may be paid for that referral. You never pay more because you came through us, but we do get paid, and you should read everything we write about a provider with that in mind.

Every provider we have a commercial relationship with is named on the page where the link appears, before you click it. If a page recommends someone and does not disclose the relationship, that is a mistake and we want to hear about it.

The obvious tension is worth naming out loud. We take these medications, we write about taking them, and we are paid when readers go on to buy them. That is a real conflict of interest, and the only useful answer to it is the rules below, which we hold to whether a provider pays us or not.

Your Balance Point publishes general educational information. It is not medical advice. It cannot account for your medical history, the other medicines you take, or anything else that makes you a person rather than an average.

Nothing here is a diagnosis or a treatment recommendation. Talk to a licensed clinician before starting, stopping or changing any treatment, including anything discussed in the GLP-1 hub. If you think you are having a medical emergency, contact emergency services.

Where we quote a clinical trial, we report the figure as published: a group average, over a stated period, in a defined population. It describes what happened to that group. It does not predict what will happen to you.