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.
A reader sent me a question last week that I suspect a lot of you have been wondering about.
She wrote that she runs a whole-foods home. She's been following along with the processing framework. And she's noticed something: she can't keep coconut sugar, honey, or maple syrup in the house. She goes overboard. So does her 3-year-old.
But a few drops of monk fruit sweetener (the kind blended with ...
Specifically, how much of our understanding of weight and healthy living relies on willpower, and how it's the hidden force that sabotages every effort.
We aren't designed as human beings to resist pleasurable foods, even if we know that consuming them will be hard on our psyches and bodies.
My thesis is that reliance on willpower is the underlying cause of lifetimes of dieting failures, weigh...
Hooboy, the news is grim for salads these days.
I went to Whole Foods to buy a head or two of organic lettuce but found them looking too forlorn to take home. I guess no one wants to take a chance these days.
That's a shame because those heads offer a safer option for those unwilling to forgo a daily salad (me).
Here's why:
In the face of multiple outbreaks involving fresh produce, choosing ...
not another diet - the newsletter
Insights on healthy weight management for midlife women.
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.
In my newsletter I answer the question: How do I live well, delight in food, and still have a healthy weight?
