An effective weight loss program has three main components.
- Self-exploration - you need to understand what you need and what feels right to you–that's how it becomes sustainable for you.
- Weight mastery - focus on permanence from day one. Any diet will help you lose weight; lasting weight...
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...
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...
The problem is in plain sight.
How much of your food is processed, and do you understand what that's doing to you?
“I want to eat naturally and be able to stop when I’m not hungry anymore.”
Seems reasonable. The daily struggle to keep yourself from eating too much is a...
In fact, they're quite harmful.
Goal weights are an invention of diet companies. They are an unnecessary ‘motivator’ and do more harm than good. The more acute the distance between you and some magical number, the higher the likelihood you’ll agree to a plan with a 90%...
It's not but you're approaching it with bad ideas.
Myopically focusing on calories, carbs, and steps makes it impossible to get somewhere better.
Weight loss isn’t simple so why do we keep treating it that way?
The short answer is that we’ve allowed diet companies to define...
Your understanding of weight gain is incorrect and it’s trapping you in an endless struggle.
The way we understand weight is informed by diet culture.
I spend a considerable amount of time trying to communicate how wrong our societal ideas about weight gain are. The problem is that I’m...
Understanding the limits of this approach for weight loss.
Intuitive eating has some good ideas but overlooks important realities crucial to your longterm success.
It’s likely in your search for a healthy weight without going on another diet you ran across intuitive eating. Maybe you even...
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