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...

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...

“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...

The most sustainable weight loss comes from a process of discovery, not a focus on a particular number. Starting with a goal weight is a slippery slope into an unsustainable diet.

Goal weights are an invention of diet companies. They are an unnecessary ‘motivator’ and do more...

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...