BY 2027, IT’S ESTIMATED NEARLY one-third of the world’s population could be obese or overweight. As an obesity medicine physician, I know changing this outcome will take a collective commitment to creating healthier communities and empowering healthier choices. Here, I offer you my top five strategies that go against diet culture and are extremely successful for long-term, sustainable weight loss.
1 SCRAP ALL-OR-NOTHING THINKING
All-or-nothing thinking is one of the greatest obstacles to weight loss. In diet culture, you’ve learned you have to be ultra-restrictive in your diet and overly aggressive in exercise regimens to see results. This puts a massive amount of pressure on you to be perfect. So, when you eat a cookie and then decide you’ve failed, you throw the towel in and
