Eat The Rules

In This Episode, We Talk About

• Alexis’ relationship to food growing up and how it led her to the work she does now,
• What the Look Ahead study is and what Alexis discovered in her research on it,
• That long term weight loss and maintenance is extremely rare, and the industry knows it,
• The research done by the National Weight Control Registry and its relationship to eating disorders,
• How researchers have used examples of people with eating disorders as lessons for weight loss,
• That in the rare instances when people sustain weight loss long term, it’s often not in a healthy way,
• Why weight loss should be a flag for medical professionals to assess for eating disorders,
• How set point theory works and what happens when weight is pulled below our set point,
• A study on contestants from The Biggest Loser, and why we never see a follow-up episode of this show,
• That often the things that we fear about quitting dieting are already happening while dieting,
• That health is not determined by weight and that most of what impacts health is out of our control,
• How mindfulness can shift the way we see ourselves and how we interact with the world,
• Plus so much more!

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