Dec 31, 2023
Deanna and I have been getting a lot of requests to talk about all these shiny new weight loss medications hitting the market.
You can't watch TV now without seeing an ad about them or hearing about some celebrity who has lost weight using them.
So what's the deal?
Are these miracle drugs? Are we being pushed something...
Dec 24, 2023
I'm going to get right to it - as a society, we approach New Year's resolutions wrong.
It's not hard to understand why I say that. All you have to do is look at the success rates of said resolutions.
Year after year we keep setting the same ones. We keep going through the same yearly cycle.
There is a reason we keep...
Dec 17, 2023
Most of what you see in the weight loss space is simply a repackaged version of Diet Culture.
The strategies might be different on the surface, but they still all share ineffective common denominators that set you up for failure and keep you stuck in the diet cycle.
They may throw words out there like "lifestyle"...
Dec 10, 2023
Much of the messaging that comes out of Diet Culture is centered around pushing yourself to achieve a particular goal.
We're told to have discipline. We're told "no pain, no gain." We're told to suck it up and just do it if you want it bad enough.
Hungry? How bad do you want to lose weight?
Lacking motivation to work...
Dec 3, 2023
Most health and fitness advice isn't all that helpful.
We're usually given a series of behaviors to aspire to.
Eat more vegetables. Eat less, move more. Eat xxxx amount of calories. Hit your macros. Don't eat this/that food.
The list goes on.
It's not that these things don't work or can't work. It's just that we...