Weight That Stays Off
The Restrict-Binge Cycle: Why Willpower Is Never the Problem
Total Life Sync The Restrict-Binge Cycle: Why Willpower Is Never the Problem Most people who have struggled with their weight have experienced some version of this: you restrict, you do well for a period, and then something gives way and you eat far more than you intended, often of exactly the foods you had been…
Read MoreYour Body Has a Set Weight: Here’s How to Actually Change It
Total Life Sync Your Body Has a Set Weight: Here’s How to Actually Change It If you have ever lost weight only to watch it return to precisely where it was before, you have experienced the body’s set point in action. This is not a personal failure. It is biology operating exactly as designed. The…
Read MoreWhy Every Diet Works at First. And Then Stops
Total Life Sync Why Every Diet Works at First. And Then Stops Almost every diet works in the short term. Keto, low fat, Mediterranean, intermittent fasting, calorie counting, the cabbage soup diet. They all produce initial weight loss in most people who try them. And then, reliably, almost all of them stop working. The weight…
Read MoreHigh Insulin: The Hidden Reason You Can’t Lose Weight
Total Life Sync High Insulin: The Hidden Reason You Can’t Lose Weight If you have been eating less, exercising more, doing what you have been told to do, and the weight still will not move, chronically high insulin may be the explanation. Not laziness, not a slow metabolism in the generic sense, not lack of…
Read MoreHow Your Body Decides Where to Store Fat. And How to Change That
Total Life Sync How Your Body Decides Where to Store Fat. And How to Change That Not all body fat is the same, and not all body fat is stored in the same places for the same reasons. Where your body chooses to accumulate fat, whether around the abdomen, the hips and thighs, the arms,…
Read MoreThe Insulin Connection: Why What You Eat Matters More Than How Much
Total Life Sync The Insulin Connection: Why What You Eat Matters More Than How Much For decades, the dominant model of weight management has been energy balance. Eat less than you burn and you will lose weight. Eat more and you will gain. The simplicity of this model made it appealing, and it contains enough…
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