Ever tell yourself “I’ll just have one”… and then wonder how the whole bag disappeared? Or swing the other way — “Nope, I can’t have that, I’ll go off the rails” — and still end up thinking about it all day? This episode is about the middle skill that almost no one teaches: the ability to not decide right away. When you stop reacting to every craving — whether it’s with “screw it” or “I shouldn’t” — you create space to actually learn what’s going on. And that changes everything. 💡 Insid...
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Ever tell yourself “I’ll just have one”… and then wonder how the whole bag disappeared? Or swing the other way — “Nope, I can’t have that, I’ll go off the rails” — and still end up thinking about it all day? This episode is about the middle skill that almost no one teaches: the ability to not decide right away. When you stop reacting to every craving — whether it’s with “screw it” or “I shouldn’t” — you create space to actually learn what’s going on. And that changes everything. 💡 Insid...
Episode 241: The Biggest Loser documentary: What Netflix missed (and why it matters)
The Diet Diaries
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2 months ago
Episode 241: The Biggest Loser documentary: What Netflix missed (and why it matters)
Remember The Biggest Loser? I was obsessed. That show was appointment TV if there ever was such a thing! That show was everywhere in the 2000s—17 (!!) seasons of extreme workouts, starvation diets, and public weigh-ins packaged as “inspiration.” Netflix just released a three-part documentary about it. And while it covered some drama behind the scenes, I was more shocked about what it didn’t cover: The food. Contestants were eating as little as 800 calories a day—yet the show framed it as “h...
The Diet Diaries
Ever tell yourself “I’ll just have one”… and then wonder how the whole bag disappeared? Or swing the other way — “Nope, I can’t have that, I’ll go off the rails” — and still end up thinking about it all day? This episode is about the middle skill that almost no one teaches: the ability to not decide right away. When you stop reacting to every craving — whether it’s with “screw it” or “I shouldn’t” — you create space to actually learn what’s going on. And that changes everything. 💡 Insid...
