Over the next few weeks, I'll outline how I approach day-to-day life differently now that I am no longer overweight. You'll get a look under the hood, as it were, of healthy weight living.
Like a BEFORE & AFTER–but your life.
While bodies vary in metabolism and calorie needs, the issue with modern obesity is environment. Specifically, our food environments. Diet culture says make good 'choices' no matter what you're being exposed to.
You can see where that's gotten us.
Before 1960, the obesity rate was less than 10%. That means the people who think their size is a biological dysfunction would've had no problem with their weight before the rise of highly processed foods.
Therefore, it makes sense to focus on behavior, rather than biology. How we shop, socialize, and self-soothe, among other things.
One thing about me is that I'm never short of ideas. That's one of those good and bad qualities we all possess. Helpful in some ways, and problematic in others.
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My blood sugar rose to 170.
And not just for a few minutes. It stayed elevated for hours after.
That got my attention.
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I'm one of 4% who lost significant weight and kept it off past the ten-year mark.
I did it without apps, fasting schemes, calorie counting, or carb restriction.
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