In order to help people change, it's actually really difficult, because diet sort of becomes like religion. There is an agenda to push you into something, and almost a dogmatic way to make you believe that this is the one and only way to get healthier. So basically the diet that has the secret to weight loss, the best thing that they can do is make it just not actually work. And at no part in my book, well, I tell you you need to be a vegan, or you needs to be a carnivore. We have much more agency over what will work for us than you have been told.
Adam Bornstein (@BornFitness) is the founder of Born Fitness, an award-winning writer and editor in the fitness space, and a bestselling author. His latest book is You Can't Screw This Up: Why Eating Takeout, Enjoying Dessert, and Taking the Stress out of Dieting Leads to Weight Loss That Lasts.
What We Discuss with Adam Bornstein:
- Why are more than 70 percent of Americans overweight or obese despite 40 percent of men and 60 percent of women observing multiple diets per year?
- The common misbeliefs and flawed mindsets around fitness and weight loss perpetuated by a wellness industry that prioritizes its profits over the people it purports to help.
- How the wellness industry inflates bogus "sciencey" claims in order to fool us into buying routines, diets, and supplements that, at best, do nothing for us.
- What calorie restriction really does to the brain.
- How extreme, all-or-none beliefs make us fail our fitness goals, and what we can do to actually move the progress needle forward.
- And much more...
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