Weight That Stays Off
Tampering With Your Set Weight: How to Lower Your Body’s Defended Range
Total Life Sync Tampering With Your Set Weight: How to Lower Your Body’s Defended Range Your body has a weight it considers home. Not a number on a scale, but a range, a defended territory it works continuously to maintain. Eat less for a month and your hunger increases, your metabolism slows, and your body…
Read MoreBetter Ways to Measure Progress That Actually Keep You Motivated
Total Life Sync Better Ways to Measure Progress That Actually Keep You Motivated Motivation in any long-term behaviour change effort is fed by evidence of progress. When progress is measured poorly, that evidence is unreliable, and motivation suffers accordingly. When progress is measured well, with metrics that actually reflect the changes taking place in the…
Read MoreWhy the Scale Is the Worst Way to Track Your Weight Loss Progress
Total Life Sync Why the Scale Is the Worst Way to Track Your Weight Loss Progress The scale has an outsized influence on how most people feel about their progress. A lower number produces satisfaction and motivation. A higher or unchanged number produces discouragement, sometimes to the point of abandoning an approach that is actually…
Read MoreCortisol and Belly Fat: The Stress-Weight Connection Most People Miss
Total Life Sync Cortisol and Belly Fat: The Stress-Weight Connection Most People Miss There is a specific type of weight gain that people describe as perplexing: eating reasonably well, not dramatically overeating, exercising, and yet accumulating fat around the abdomen that will not shift regardless of dietary effort. Chronic stress and the cortisol it produces…
Read MoreHow Hormones That Affect Weight Are Sabotaging Your Results Without You Knowing
Total Life Sync How Hormones That Affect Weight Are Sabotaging Your Results Without You Knowing Weight is not simply a matter of calories consumed and calories burned. It is, at its core, a hormonal outcome. The hormones that affect weight are the primary regulators of how much you eat, how much energy you expend, where…
Read MoreWhy You Eat When You’re Not Hungry. And How to Stop Emotional Eating
Total Life Sync Why You Eat When You’re Not Hungry. And How to Stop Emotional Eating Eating when you are not hungry is one of the most common and least examined eating behaviours. Most people do it regularly, often without noticing. And it accounts for a meaningful portion of caloric intake that neither hunger nor…
Read MoreAre You Hungry or Just Stressed? How to Tell the Difference Between Emotional and Physical Hunger
Total Life Sync Are You Hungry or Just Stressed? How to Tell the Difference Between Emotional and Physical Hunger One of the most practically useful skills in managing your relationship with food is the ability to distinguish between genuine physical hunger and the various forms of non-hunger that drive eating. This distinction sounds simple. In…
Read MoreHow Slow Weight Loss Beats Fast Weight Loss Every Single Time
Total Life Sync How Slow Weight Loss Beats Fast Weight Loss Every Single Time Faster weight loss feels like it should be better. More progress in less time. Higher motivation from visible results. Less time spent in the process before reaching the goal. The appeal is obvious, and the weight loss industry has built itself…
Read MoreSmall Habit Changes That Produce Surprisingly Large Weight Loss Results
Total Life Sync Small Habit Changes That Produce Surprisingly Large Weight Loss Results The weight loss industry is built around dramatic interventions: extreme diets, intensive exercise programs, radical lifestyle overhauls. These approaches appeal to the desire for significant, fast results. They also fail at very high rates, because dramatic change requires dramatic effort, and dramatic…
Read MoreThe Only Sustainable Weight Loss Approach That Actually Lasts
Total Life Sync The Only Sustainable Weight Loss Approach That Actually Lasts There are hundreds of weight loss approaches, and most of them work in the short term. The meaningful question is not which approach produces the fastest initial results. It is which approach produces results that last five years later. By that metric, the…
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