If you've gone back and forth about bread, rice, and pasta because of conflicting advice, this one's for you. There is a whole other way to think about and incorporate refined grains into your life without the attendant weight struggles.

Instead of evaluating a food based on macros or calories, let's discuss dietary context to understand why other cultures consume them without gaining weight (and how you can too).

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' or count or fast or whatever nonsense they can come up with next. 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.

Navigating the world we live in now.

This is part 3.