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The Secret to Enduring Weight Loss is Hiding in Plain Sight
How a food is processed changes your weight and behavior.
After a lifetime of weight struggles, I abandoned dieting in 2009 and lost 55 pounds for good.
In the process, I figured out exactly what’s making us fat and what you can do about it without ever counting another calorie.
A popular sentiment in intuitive eating is that food is neither good nor bad–it just is. I sort of agree, but where we diverge is in what constitutes food.
In my world, there’s real food and food products. The latter category is gaining traction in both awareness and, unfortunately, consumption. In the US, 57% of every calorie consumed is from ultra-processed food.
“As much as I loathe the diet industry, they aren’t the root cause of this struggle–they are the beneficiaries.”
The problem with equalizing Oreos and apples is that it peddles in fiction. One acts on you. It compels overeating by the way it’s processed. People who consume ultra-processed foods eat an average of 500 more calories per day.
