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How To Avoid Holiday Weight Gain (And Still Have Fun) celebrating chronic weight gain food processing obesogenic

Most people only gain a few pounds over the Holiday season, but here's the kicker–those pounds are a primary contributor to lifetime weight gain

"The only problem is that the holidays probably account for much of a person’s annual weight gain over the course of a lifetime." NY...

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How Grocery Stores and Restaurants Manipulate You To Eat Garbage (and How to Take Control) boundaries carbs chronic weight gain environment

Understanding the Power of Choice Architecture: Your unseen environment shapes you.

Endcaps are what grocery (or big box) stores call the shelf at each end of the aisle. They are prime territory for sales, and as such, stores think very carefully about what...

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Before and After Weight Loss Photos Are Lying To You chronic weight gain healthy weight menopause permanent weight loss

You want After and After photos for the real story.

I've always hated before and after photos in marketing. You'll find me using them very sparingly (some proof is needed that you did what you said you did) because of precisely what they omit. 

 

Did it last? 

This brings up...

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Quit Tracking Your Food If You Want To Lose Weight carbs chronic weight gain food tracking metabolic damage noom weight watchers

Putting my food into an app was the last straw.

That practice (and getting to my highest weight, anyway) made me give up dieting and apps (also a diet) for good.

As in, I couldn’t take another minute of it.

I love to eat and take great delight in food. It felt viscerally...

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How Do I Stop Regaining Weight? chronic weight gain diet culture food tracking healthy weight my fitnesspal noom overeating weight watchers

The downside of dieting (using a deprivation-based system to lose weight) is the subsequent regain. It's heartbreaking and predictable, especially for those who use calorie-counting or food-tracking apps.

If you’re stuck between the apps and steady weight gain, read on.

The method is the...

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What's the most effective weight loss program? chronic weight gain diet culture the program weight mastery

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...
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Is it worth it to lose weight? chronic weight gain diet culture natural eating
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...

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Why do I need to eat so much? chronic weight gain food processing hunger obesogenic sugar

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...

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