How Do I Quit Regaining Weight? chronic weight gain diet culture food tracking healthy weight my fitnesspal noom overeating weight watchers

The downside of dieting (using a deprivation-based system to lose weight) is the subsequent regain. It's heartbreaking and predictable, especially for those who use calorie-counting or food-tracking apps.

If you’re stuck between the apps and steady weight gain, read on.

The method is the...

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Eating Real Food Can Help Achieve Your Dream Life carbs cooking natural eating recipes are for weekends whole foods

Imagine if you knew exactly what you needed and how to take care of yourself to achieve (and keep!) a healthy weight. You don’t scroll Instagram or buy diet books or read every weight loss article that comes along, hoping somewhere in there is the ‘answer.’ 

You're so...

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Is Maintenance Phase Mythology Keeping You From Lasting Weight Loss? diet culture permanent weight loss

How you lose weight is how you have to live.

Most people know that keeping weight off involves lifestyle changes (I’ve come to dislike the term because it sounds far too breezy to fully describe what’s actually needed) but still cling to the idea that losing weight...

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Will Cooking At Home Help Me Lose Weight? cooking recipes are for weekends self-care

The only meaningful shortcut to eating healthfully and moderately is to eat food as close to its origins as possible. Your kitchen is the best place to get it.

Eating whole, unprocessed food is the easiest way to moderate your intake (we call it eating for cessation) and enjoy every bite. That...

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Is Menopause Making Me Fat? environment hunger menopause whole foods

Science says no. 

The common understanding about weight gain in midlife has no science to support it.

Instead, what it shows is that men and women have no substantial differences in metabolic rates, menopause in and of itself does NOT create a dip in metabolism, and age-related decline...

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What's the most effective weight loss program? chronic weight gain diet culture the program weight mastery

An effective weight loss program has three main components.

  1. Self-exploration - you need to understand what you need and what feels right to you–that's how it becomes sustainable for you.
  2. Weight mastery - focus on permanence from day one. Any diet will help you lose weight; lasting weight...
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Can I Lose Weight Without Dieting? diet culture obesogenic weight mastery
You not only can but should.

90% of people who lose weight on a diet watch it creep back on within a year. Slowly at first and then all of a sudden. Sometimes, more than before.

If one of them is you, here's some information to relieve you of the guilt and shame.

No diet was going to keep...

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Is it worth it to lose weight? chronic weight gain diet culture natural eating
Losing Weight Is Still Worthwhile. Just don’t diet to get there.

Anti-diet messages have gotten so mixed up with weight loss that many people wonder, is it ok to want to lose weight?

Yes, but it matters how you go about it. After twenty years of struggling with dieting and its bad ideas...

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