Why have we, as a society, deemed that something must be wrong with someone who has gained weight? Why is it that we correlate weight gain to medical issues, laziness, lack of willpower, and gluttony? The easy answer…. because the diet industry earns $60 Billion…
I used to have a love-hate relationship with my bathroom scale. I loved it when the number was moving in the direction of my weight-loss goals, and I cursed at it when it didn’t. My first memory of stepping on a scale was when I…
In Part 1 of this post we looked at the biological factors that cause diets to fail. Now we’ll take a look at the underlying psychological factors that may hinder long-term success. A person who wants to lose weight and maintain a trim figure has…