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What if you could trust yourself around food?

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Last week I talked about some of the (many!) reasons why diets don’t work.

A huge pattern I’ve noticed is that people do not trust themselves around food. 

They believe that if left to their own devices they would begin eating and never stop.

This reinforces the need for someone — an expert, a coworker, a friend — to tell them what and when and how much to eat.

I was like this for many years. I felt downright out-of-control around food, like my hunger was completely insatiable. [Read more…]

For every diet there is an equal and opposite binge

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Have you ever wondered why diets don’t work?

Diets don’t work because they assume that the reason people are overweight is because they lack willpower. And that’s simply not true.

If we lacked willpower, nobody would have ever lost a pound on a diet.

Diets don’t work because they assume that we can’t trust ourselves. [Read more…]